Wish me luck, I just dropped off my Fair entries

thirdwarning · August 21, 2008, 4:25am

It’s the recipe I gave China Guy a while back here on the board. I haven’t done it for years, so I practiced. So now we have rye bread and to spare.

gigi · August 21, 2008, 2:59pm

YAY!! My basket got a white.

ivylass · August 21, 2008, 3:58pm

We Want PICTURES!

Barrels · August 21, 2008, 4:16pm

thirdwarning:

Well, I went and did it. Had an explosion of confidence (or overconfidence) and decided to enter some things in the county fair this year. It’s been years since I’ve done that. In fact, it’s been several years since we’ve even gone to the fair, even though it used to be an annual outing. With the kids starting school earlier in high school, we kind of got out of the habit. But this year, for some goofy reason, I kind of suddenly decided to enter again. I have some knitted pieces, and basket I made, and I even went so far as to enter cookies and bread. Not to mention the cross stitch piece I fought with for days. Tell me I’m not crazy.

Today is the first day of the fair, and the things are being judged even as I type this. The exhibit building is scheduled to open at about noon. I’m trying to decide how long I want to put off finding out.

If nothing else, I get daily passes out of the deal. So at least I don’t have to pay admission to see how I did.

Keep your fingers crossed, willya, please?

Congrats!

Walworth County?

Harmonious_Discord · August 21, 2008, 4:33pm

I hope you do well. The lack of entries is what stopped me from showing up at the fair.

I used to enter stuff, but had to stop. They really need to get with the times and change the entrance routine. Having to be there during a couple hours in the middle of the weekday is too restrictive. Computerized internet entry would be nice too.

Beadalin · August 21, 2008, 4:43pm

Awesome! Congrats!

And I second the call for photos.

thirdwarning · August 22, 2008, 12:01am

Thank you, everybody.

Pictures will be forthcoming after Sunday evening when I get the things back. They won’t photograph well in their little display cages.

Kat, we’ll be in Waukesha that Friday, and I’m staying for the week, but I don’t think I’ll be able to persuade my husband to drive all the way up to Big Falls just for free corn. (He lives in Milwaukee right now.)

gigi, I figure a ribbon is better than none. Around here it pays four dollars against the one dollar entry fee. The scarf I entered came up blank. What kind of basket did you do?

Barrels, Will County, IL

Harmonious Discord, We can enter by mail, and the Fair book is available at some places in town, like the bank. I don’t know what they do in other areas of the county. I just happen to have grown up in the town where the fairgrounds is, and I’m only about 12 miles away now. I picked up a book and then took the entries in. Internet entries would be nice, but I know the members of the Fair committee. Don’t think it will happen anytime soon.

Kat · August 22, 2008, 1:03am

Well, tell him it’s to meet some strange chick you know from the internet and free corn.

thirdwarning · August 22, 2008, 1:17am

Oh, yeah, that’ll do the trick. “Weird internet people.”

Kat · August 22, 2008, 1:54am

Hey, what’s wrong with weird internet people?!

thirdwarning · August 22, 2008, 2:57am

For me, nothing, I are one. For him, he’s not so sure about any of this. The internet weirds him out a bit, I think, and he’s sure it’s all just a little too risky.

And the man’s a programmer!

Oh, well, I love him anyway.

greatshakes · August 22, 2008, 6:13am

Congratulations, thirdwarning!

gigi · August 22, 2008, 1:50pm

This year’s blue ribbon, in progress.

Last year’s

My basket was a tote with a wooden handle, and a natural and blue twill pattern. Apparently it was beaten out by a cat’s head, which is perfectly understandable.

thirdwarning · August 22, 2008, 4:46pm

Those quilts are beautiful! Someday maybe I’ll get there.

The basket sounds pretty cool, too. But it’s tough to beat a cat’s head, I agree.