On Saturday, October 1st, Jack attended his 39th consecutive Hillsdale County Fair. It was my 28th, though not consecutive, Fair. Wayne and Sally could not go this year. Wayne was cheering at Homecoming at Illinois and Sally had a swim meet to coach. They missed all the fun.
We left late Friday afternoon, right after work. We were on the road for about 30 minutes when the low tire pressure warning light went on. Jack decided to stop at an oasis to check it out. Good thing we did because the back right tire was almost flat. Jack put some air in it and I went into the gas station to ask if they provided any tire repair services. Of course not. However, they suggested we drive to the next exit where we could find an NTB or something similar. Luckily, we made it there and found a Firestone that was open and could help us. They said it would take an hour or so to get to our car. Having no other choice, we decided to wait and got ourselves comfortable in the waiting area. About half way into our wait, a huge hail storm blew in and it was horrible for about twenty minutes. Jack and I were reminded how God protects us. We were fortunate to have had that warning light and to have heeded it. Otherwise we probably would have had a blow out and it might have been in the midst of a bad storm. As it turned out, there was something wrong with the valve on the tire and it only cost $28 to fix. Soon enough we were on our way.
We went straight to our very favorite restaurant, Schuler's. We arrived about an hour before they closed and pretty much had the place to ourselves. The meal did not disappoint. Mmmmmm, love those meatballs and barcheeze and peppermint ribbon pie.
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| a little glass of Chandon to celebrate Fair weekend |
The next morning, we checked out of the Hampton Inn by 11 and headed to the Fair. We had to meet up with a guy named Brian Watkins. Brian is producing a documentary about the Fair and interviewed Jack last year. Brian decided he needed more footage and contacted Jack to see if he could follow Jack around the Fair and interview both of us this year. Of course we said yes!
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| Brian puts a wireless mic on Jack |
Brian shared with us the sad news that there was no photo button booth at the Fair this year. First time in at least 39 years!!!! We were mature about it. Brian took a picture of us and we are going to have our own photo button made (he gave us a great place to do it...mpix.com). Brian was THE nicest guy. He is earnest and passionate about Hillsdale and filmmaking. There is a link to a site that has info about the documentary :
here it is
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| imagine this on metal with a pin on the back |
We did our usual things...corn dog, Fiske fries (the best!) and elephant ear. We played the water gun game, Jack did the Funhouse. We went to the birthing tent and saw newborn pygmy goats, then headed over to the Barnyard Babies tent. There were twin foals that were born several months ago. Did you know that twin foal births are highly unusual and pretty much never successful? The family whose mare had the twins had an informative display with all the details. They had no idea there were two babies in there!
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| checking out antique farm equipment |
After we left the Fair, we stopped in at the college. We found our brick and sat in the deluxe student center and used their lightning fast wireless.
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| Jack with our brick and Central Hall in the background |
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| Jack in front of Koon Hall, the dorm where he was an RA |
We closed out the day with a return trip to Schuler's. Nothing better than a double Schuler's Fair weekend!
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