County Fair

We ran our trains for a display at the county fair this week and had a wonderful time. Just kidding. We do not have a county fair. We do have a regional County Fair in Chowan County that encompasses the entire area. But, like everything else this year (2020), it was cancelled. As was the North Carolina State Fair. We do not go to the State Fair often, but we have been to the regional County Fair every year we have lived in NC and not being able to go was one of our major disappointments during this crazy year. So, we decided to have our own county fair.

We are not really the 4-H types, so no livestock displays. (Sophie would like to have some goats and chickens. Archie does not want goats and chickens. Emphatically does not. We do not have goats and chickens.) And it is a bit late in the season to be entering much from our garden for the horticulture competition. But there is a bright spot, a silver lining behind the 2020 cloud. Being the only participants, Archie took first place for his pecan entry and Sophie won for best mixed pepper display. Herbie was terribly upset when he found out that hamsters are not a livestock category.

Like fairy garden, birdhouses and gingerbread houses, carnival midway items are something we have quite a few of. Just a portion of them fill up our little three-foot circle of track quite nicely.

Herbie is a little battery powered hamster that merrily spins his little exercise wheel while riding around the track on a Hartland Mack chassis. The short wheelbase runs well on this ridiculously small radius track.