County Fair!
Oct. 5th, 2005 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasAt some point, I'm going to catch you all up on the various stuff I've been doing in my life over the past, oh, month or so, but I'll just tell you this for now:
After going to second-day Rosh Hashana services today, Lis and I went out to the Topsfield Fair, which is, very simply, a good old fashioned county fair -- I believe it's the oldest annually-running county fair in the country.
Rides, carny games, really bad-for-you food, maple sugar cotton candy (which was just as much fun as regular cotton candy, but actually had FLAVOR, too, making it even better), apple cider donuts, racing pigs, bull riding demonstrations, raptors, an agricultural-product-detecting beagle who works for Customs at Logan airport, llamas, sheep, cattle, flowers, a 1314.8 pound pumpkin (the largest in New England -- it was seriously a pumpkin the size of a Volkswagen -- Cinderella could easily have ridden inside), Clydesdales, a rabbit and guinea pig barn, a poultry barn.
I like the Topsfield fair.
Anyway, the poultry barn was awesome. Tons of prizewinning chickens (of several breeds), ducks (of several breeds), geese, turkeys, pigeons, a few brightly-colored pheasants.
On the way out, I was looking at the "best of show" goose. First off, I was rather disturbed to notice that the sucker had fricken' TEETH. I mean, its beak was serrated -- it had TEETH. Looked scary. I mean, it looks exactly like a feathered dinosaur, but meaner. Lis keeps yelling at me when I say, "You remember -- that goose had TEETH!" because she's trying to block out the traumatic memory.
Anyway, as we were walking out past the "best of show" birds, I heard a small boy walk up behind me.
He said: "Wooah! That's a big chicken!"
After going to second-day Rosh Hashana services today, Lis and I went out to the Topsfield Fair, which is, very simply, a good old fashioned county fair -- I believe it's the oldest annually-running county fair in the country.
Rides, carny games, really bad-for-you food, maple sugar cotton candy (which was just as much fun as regular cotton candy, but actually had FLAVOR, too, making it even better), apple cider donuts, racing pigs, bull riding demonstrations, raptors, an agricultural-product-detecting beagle who works for Customs at Logan airport, llamas, sheep, cattle, flowers, a 1314.8 pound pumpkin (the largest in New England -- it was seriously a pumpkin the size of a Volkswagen -- Cinderella could easily have ridden inside), Clydesdales, a rabbit and guinea pig barn, a poultry barn.
I like the Topsfield fair.
Anyway, the poultry barn was awesome. Tons of prizewinning chickens (of several breeds), ducks (of several breeds), geese, turkeys, pigeons, a few brightly-colored pheasants.
On the way out, I was looking at the "best of show" goose. First off, I was rather disturbed to notice that the sucker had fricken' TEETH. I mean, its beak was serrated -- it had TEETH. Looked scary. I mean, it looks exactly like a feathered dinosaur, but meaner. Lis keeps yelling at me when I say, "You remember -- that goose had TEETH!" because she's trying to block out the traumatic memory.
Anyway, as we were walking out past the "best of show" birds, I heard a small boy walk up behind me.
He said: "Wooah! That's a big chicken!"
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Date: 2005-10-06 04:02 am (UTC)"Agricultural-product-detecting" beagle? :)
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Date: 2005-10-06 01:34 pm (UTC)It's the "rabbit and cavy barn", and it's mostly rabbits, but there is a wall-o-peegs-in-cages.
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Date: 2005-10-06 04:32 pm (UTC)He said: "Wooah! That's a big chicken!"
Do you want/need to clarify at all that he wasn't referring to the best of show chicken with that remark???
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Date: 2005-10-06 07:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-06 08:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-06 09:57 pm (UTC)a goos with teath?
Date: 2005-10-07 12:12 am (UTC)have to see this!
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Date: 2005-10-07 03:33 am (UTC)I once had a boyfriend with a large, stereotypically-Jewish nose. He was trying to get a close look at the prize goose that year, and the goose bit his nose. I was quite amused. I've always been wary around large birds--beaks can be more vicious than teeth.
Re: a goos with teath?
Date: 2005-10-07 01:17 pm (UTC)and
[This second one is extra scary, because it looks like the goose has teeth on its tongue too!]