Fair Season!
Sep. 28th, 2011 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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anna_mickel and I headed North last Saturday, to meet my in-laws at the Common Ground Fair, for a day of getting back to nature, or something... I wanted to see the animals, look at cow butts, that kind of thing. We had a good time, I think.
A cool, slightly drizzly and overcast day. Cooler and much preferable to Friday or Sunday's weather, which was hot and humid. We wandered around, saw all the heirloom gardens and orchards that MOFGA takes care of right at the fair site (which I think is MOFGA headquarters), saw the Johnny's Selected Seeds display of all the cold crop greens that were just seeded in August (need to do more of that myself), fondled and sniffed lots of lovely garlic and onions (and dangit, it's time to start some garlic and onion seeds so I can get them in the ground before it freezes!), poked our heads into Hobbit Houses (my father-in-law wants one, and Max is trying to figure out how to build one around their hot tub), and didn't see nearly everything in one afternoon...
I did meet some very friendly horses, though. The Pinto in particular was hamming it up for the camera, as was the brown horse in the stall next to him... The Pinto was quite friendly, and seemed very happy to stand and have his neck scritched, which I was happy to do. He was a sweet horse. Lots of goats, chickens, bunnies, and a few mules, which were cool.
I rode a leg of the Belfast-Moosehead Railway back to the truck with Frank. I don't seem to remember being on an actual train before in my life, though I'm sure I have been..? We rode on the outdoor car, only about 5 miles, I think, but it was lovely.
We retired that evening to the camp my in-laws rented, after a nice dinner at the little restaurant down the road. Eventually got a fire going (wet wood is no good, but birch bark will help burn anything!), had s'mores, watched fireflies, and sank into sleep.
Sunday we stopped by Bryant's Stove & Music in Thorndike. What a place. The Doll Circus has to be experienced, and the garage full of antique cars, nickelodeons, and player pianos, barrel organs, and calliopes is absolutely wonderful. So much history stuffed into that place... The owner/curator/tour guide has done so much work restoring all the old instruments. So neat to hear. They are usually closed on Sundays, but Frank knows just about everybody in the world, I think, and can talk his way into the places where he doesn't... They were open because it was fair weekend, and I'm so glad they were.
Fun fun weekend. Over too soon...
anna_mickel and I headed North last Saturday, to meet my in-laws at the Common Ground Fair, for a day of getting back to nature, or something... I wanted to see the animals, look at cow butts, that kind of thing. We had a good time, I think. |
| 09-24 Common Ground Fair |
A cool, slightly drizzly and overcast day. Cooler and much preferable to Friday or Sunday's weather, which was hot and humid. We wandered around, saw all the heirloom gardens and orchards that MOFGA takes care of right at the fair site (which I think is MOFGA headquarters), saw the Johnny's Selected Seeds display of all the cold crop greens that were just seeded in August (need to do more of that myself), fondled and sniffed lots of lovely garlic and onions (and dangit, it's time to start some garlic and onion seeds so I can get them in the ground before it freezes!), poked our heads into Hobbit Houses (my father-in-law wants one, and Max is trying to figure out how to build one around their hot tub), and didn't see nearly everything in one afternoon...
I did meet some very friendly horses, though. The Pinto in particular was hamming it up for the camera, as was the brown horse in the stall next to him... The Pinto was quite friendly, and seemed very happy to stand and have his neck scritched, which I was happy to do. He was a sweet horse. Lots of goats, chickens, bunnies, and a few mules, which were cool.
I rode a leg of the Belfast-Moosehead Railway back to the truck with Frank. I don't seem to remember being on an actual train before in my life, though I'm sure I have been..? We rode on the outdoor car, only about 5 miles, I think, but it was lovely.
We retired that evening to the camp my in-laws rented, after a nice dinner at the little restaurant down the road. Eventually got a fire going (wet wood is no good, but birch bark will help burn anything!), had s'mores, watched fireflies, and sank into sleep.
Sunday we stopped by Bryant's Stove & Music in Thorndike. What a place. The Doll Circus has to be experienced, and the garage full of antique cars, nickelodeons, and player pianos, barrel organs, and calliopes is absolutely wonderful. So much history stuffed into that place... The owner/curator/tour guide has done so much work restoring all the old instruments. So neat to hear. They are usually closed on Sundays, but Frank knows just about everybody in the world, I think, and can talk his way into the places where he doesn't... They were open because it was fair weekend, and I'm so glad they were.
Fun fun weekend. Over too soon...
