County Fair.

8-27-11 VERMONT: They’re running us ragged. Friday they spent in the pond, in and out of the rowboat, playing with inflatables and body boards and radio-controlled boats. Our new stove was delivered by Home Depot. The first time they delivered the wrong one and had to come back to exchange it for the proper one and take away the old one which had been disconnected by the propane serviceman who also installed the new one.

Today was the Caledonia County Fair in Lyndonville, VT. We did rides, ate fair food, saw a high wire motorcycle act, an escape artist, trained bears, border collie herding, checked out the draft horses and oxen. After we got home there was more pond time and tomato picking and corn from the garden, mac and cheese, and hot dogs for dinner. A few of us had different courses.

Tomorrow we expect an Irene visit and indoor activities. We had another 0.2 inches of rain to add to the soggy August total.

New blooms: bottle gentian, turtle head, more asters.


Hopefully all the frogs survived their inter-species congress.

A boy, a dog and a boat.

Notice that there are no grandparents in that car.

Gentle grizzly bear.

Hummingbird Moth. This guy looks like a small hummer and flits from flower to flower with high-speed wing action. It also has a 'beak' like a hummer.