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<\/a>In the cow barn.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Still in the cow barn.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Young farmer tending his show cows.<\/p><\/div>\n
\u00a0Okay, there are more animal pictures. The animal barns are my favorite. But if you want to see Sarah getting on and stumbling off the worst ride at the fair, scroll down. Now, more critters…<\/p>\n
<\/a>How now...<\/p><\/div>\n
I’m not kidding, we all agreed this was the largest rooster we’d ever seen (a Cotswold, I believe)…<\/p>\n
<\/a>Blue ribbon boy.<\/p><\/div>\n
Now, off to the midway and another kind of animal…<\/p>\n
<\/a>Lions and tigers and bears, oh my.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>George said it was a slow night.<\/p><\/div>\n
The fair is still the place to get information about agriculture, forestry and other land-based activities. One of our group, Mike, a Paul Smith’s College student, gathered up a stack of brochures on everything from maple sugaring to ag-generated plastic recycling.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 At the dairy princess booth, we meet two good-will ambassadors.<\/p>\n We’ve eaten funnel cakes and slurped up the lemonade, wolfed down curly fries and barbequed pork, so it must be time to get on a ride that shakes you back and forth, tilts on a moving axis, and turns you upside down and backwards. Here come our intrepid Sarah and my son Jake. (Sarah is a smart young woman, y’know. But, in the interest of a complete story for NCPR…)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n