Capping my time at eighteen hours.

I know that in previous years I managed to hit twenty, and twenty four plus hours logged walking around the fair, but this year I am happy to stop my joyous experience at a mere eighteen hours. My main concern is leaving the dog at home alone unattended for another stretch of hours. He hasn’t been very happy about our collective absences, so I’m happy to sit out most of day four to keep him company. I wish my step counter had of worked, as I think we would have covered 20,000- 30,000 steps each day, and easily more than that over the 9 hours spent walking the midway on saturday alone. My heels, ankles, hips and lower back can all attest to the much heightened uptick in bodily movement for the last three days. So much concrete, gravel, and asphalt to stand on, and walk around on. So, so much of it. Very unforgiving.

The dust plume that you can see hanging over the fair grounds is both a good sign that lots of people are attending, and a bad sign for both sneezing, and dry eyes the very next day. A tiny bit of drizzle each day keeps it to a minimum usually, but we had spectacular weather this year – again, with little to no rain, and not too intense heat, so the grounds were optimal for the high volumes of people. Bugs were minimal thanks to the very cool nights, which is a plus. Last year was so very hot the wasps were out in full force, not so this year. Thankfully.

I missed the horse pull, but we did catch the various categories of tractor pulls, and we saw some of the demolition derby through the heavy crowds. My eldest daughter and I saw all three nights of fireworks in a row too! The last was from the car on the drive home. We pulled off the road to watch it with music playing in the warmth of the vehicle.

Today is lazy Sunday. The kids want to start decorating for Halloween. I’d like to but I’m kind of tired right now. My hips ache. But, I will say this; setting them up is somewhat easier than taking them down because they are all ready dry, and I have all the pieces sorted in each box. I want to walk the dog first though. So maybe I should go do that now, and start earlier. Ciao Bella!