Wednesday, July 21, 2010

County Fair Time



July 21
Houston County, MN


I'm working at the Kara Kahl farm this week. Doug and Mary are a semi-retired couple that enjoy gardening and raising champion milk goats. I joined current WWOOFer Justin here. He's an engineer looking for work in the area like myself. He kind of reminds me of my old housing partner at CAP, Kevin D, but he does a poor T Rex imitation. The fact that he's an engineer also reminds me of my other housing partner, UBS Man, but not really. We went to the La Crosse County Fair in WI on Saturday afternoon. In one of the livestock barns we came upon the " Draft Horse Queen". Justin quizzed her on the difference in horsepower between a draft horse and a regular horse. She could not provide a satisfactory answer. The rest of the evening was spent searching for other "queens". We looked for a "goat queen", a "pig queen", and a "rabbit queen", but were unsuccessful. Not even a "bee queen", or a "dairy queen", - although we did have a couple of root beer floats. It was an interesting evening. Big changes coming soon...stay tuned!

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