The Tunbridge World Fair

Last weekend we took up Erin’s offer to crash at her family’s place and experience the Tunbridge World Fair with a couple other YSNers. And was it an experience. We saw tons of cattle, pigs (racing!), chickens, rabbits and about everything else that moves. I think I ate more fried food in those 4 hours than I had all year (photo documentation below).  The historical farm part though is always great. It’s amazing to see the ingenious ways people make tools and components of life taken for granted nowadays by hand.

Yeah, I don’t know why, but apparently the local USMC (reserves?) runs the parking/tickets.

And… I’m tired after watching this guy do a few swings.

Interesting, but not nearly fried enough for me.

Now that’s just 400-some odd pounds of plain weird.

*** Disclaimer*** I did NOT eat all of everything below. I might have wished I did, but other people there stared at me funny after I said “sharing shmaring. That’s for kindergartners”.

Now these are vegetables I can get excited about.

At this point in time I had to remind myself this event requires pacing.

Can’t go to the fair and not have a corndog. The mustard was for Dad.

These are special fries. You want to know why they’re special? Because anything covered in gravy is special. That’s why.

At this point in time I’m feeling a little lethargic. I need something to wash that all down and get my system back on track. What’s that there? Sugar with a little bit of lemon? Awesome, just what I needed.

Ok, I didn’t actually eat this. But Erin got some fried dough, and I decided that the existence of fried dough the size of a plate needed to be photo-documented and shared with the world.

An in between heart-attack snack.

Dessert!

The only moderately healthy thing we ate while there, and with the amount of butter on there I’m not sure it still qualifies as a vegetable.

I’m still in a food coma…

August the month of Dogs – Peace – Fruit

and part of September….

What did we do that kept us so busy that we couldn’t keep y’all up to date? A little bit of this, a little bit of that, like berry picking, dog training (which is progressing noticeably), hikes, cookouts, staying up too late for the Olympics more than once and for periods – nothing. I can’t remember a whole lot of detail about most of those, so here, enjoy some pictures.

Blueberry/Peach picking.

West Rock park.

From the top of West Rock you can see East Rock in the background.

Maple (a.k.a. mapster, the stir, spazimodo, the beast, occasionally little shit, and most commonly Mapes)

Berry picking part two. Eli shared some of her raspberries with me. She was quite attached to them.

Yes, Erin’s shirt says Dogs – Peace – Fruits with a black fuzzball underneath. I’m not sure what it means, but somehow it’s an accurate description of our goings on this last month. Maple, Olympics, and Berries. Weird.

Next edition – Vermont and the World’s Fair.

Long time no blog…

It’s been a couple (alright a lot) of weeks since we last posted anything. We’ve been pretty busy over that time period, and have a lot of pictures to post. We’ll be getting to those all pretty soon along with stories.

In the meantime… we’ll be back in California December 19th for Christmas. Use the time remaining to prepare yourself.