Visiting Cousins!

As we left Keith and Ruth Ann's on Monday, we headed west toward Ansonia, Ohio, to visit Carl's cousin Linette and Nick. We had checked with them a week or so before, and they said that they usually went to the county fair on Monday as it was Senior Day and senior citizens got in for free -- we were up for that, so we headed to the fair!

After we got parked, we took a shuttle up to the gate...

... and then a golf cart handi-ride took us further into the fairgrounds.

Nick got his picture taken at the corn dog place!

Linette had submitted several pieces of her handiwork in the fair -- this quilt won first place!

Linette with her winning entry!

This one won second place!

There were a lot of things going on at the Darke County Fair -- more like what you'd see at state fairs in other states.

A man was demonstrating the use of a mechanical sock knitter -- he indicated that during World War I, women could receive the machine and wool for free to knit socks for the men going to war. At the end of the war, they could keep the machines to continue to knit socks.

In the poultry barn - some information about eggs.

There were chickens, ducks, geese, guineas, turkeys, and probably other fowl in the building!

We also watched a few competition classes in the swine show, cow show, and horse show -- all going on in different parts of the fairgrounds at the same time!

Carl expressed interest in visiting the tractors... Nick said he thought there were "some" at this fair...

... there were quite a few!!! Extra big ones...

... medium big ones...

... I think this one was 4WD.

There was a section with antique tractors...

I don't have captions for these ...

... but thought you might enjoy looking at them!

This was an odd looking one...

It had this information on the side  -- check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpuk60ZGcu0

A toy version of the round baler that we saw being made in the New Holland Factory a couple of weeks ago!

Diesel lawn mower for the bargain price of $19K+!

New Holland tractor

Shuttle back to the parking lot

 

We decided to stop at Maid-Rite to get burgers and shakes and take them with us to enjoy back home!

It was a very WARM and humid day, but with the various shuttles available, we got to see a lot of the fair and had a good day with Linette and Nick.

The Jee-rage and Gracie outside of Linette and Nick's house.

We walked down to Casey's on Tuesday morning and got donuts prepared by Linette and Nick's daughter, Amy -- good to see her again too!

A photo of all of us together!

We were so blessed to be able to spend a little bit of time with Linette and Nick!