Fair time already?

What??!! How can it be fair time already??

And who came up with this whole fair thing, anyway? Supposedly, it's for farmers to display their produce, animals, etc, win a blue ribbon or whatever.

There are families in our 4H group that camp the entire week at the fairgrounds. *shrug* I don't get it.

Sure, it makes sense if you are keeping big animals at the fair and you need to be handy to look after them. But who has time for all this??

The garden is quickly cranking up to full blast production. That means tons of picking and pickling. This stuff isn't going to wait for the fair to be over.

I really just don't understand. Won't people with bigger farms be even busier than I am with my teensy little farmstead?

And another thing I don't get: who the heck pays $150 for a rabbit?? Yep, they'll go for that much and even more at the 4H auction. Not quite fair to the kid that raised a steer and gets the same amount as the kid who raised the rabbit. Actually, this worked out to be a valuable economics lesson for Little Sis. She saw her friends' families spend quite a bit, all totaled, to rent a camping space, buy fair food on a daily basis, drive back and forth to work from the fair grounds (last year when gas was over $4 a gallon), drive all the way back home for laundry or stop at the laundromat...you get the idea. These people can easily spend more than the kid will make, even for a rabbit.

I suppose the whole thing could be a fun family vacation, if it's what you are into. Me, I just don't get it.

But...we'll do our duty and help set up our 4H booth, then spend a day at the fair looking at the animals. No, we don't do rides. Those things are held together with spit and duct tape.

I sure don't sound like much fun, do I? lol