MY DAY AT PETALUMA FAIR

I DECIDED TO GO PETALUMA AND TAKE A DAY OFF. IT WAS AN INTERESTING FAIR AND IT WAS COLD AND WINDY COMPARED TO SANTA ROSA.  THEY HAD A SPECIAL DOG ACT WHERE 12 DOGS CAUGHT FRISBEES THROWN IN THE AIR.  IT WAS NOT CROWDED THAT DAY.  THEY HAD A MAP OF  THE GROUNDS AND I HAD TO ASK ABOUT TO FIND CERTAIN SPECIAL AGRICULTURAL FAIR EXHIBITS. ONE WAS A KENESTHETIC AGRICULTURAL EXHIBIT WHERE YOU J=HAS TO GUESS WHAT THE VEGETABLE WAS IN THE BOX BY FEELING IT.  THIS LADY LIKED MY NATIVE AMERICAN HIKES TOO!  I SAW SO MANY NATIVES WITH TATTOOS!  ONE GUY FROM PERU HAD BEAUTIFUL MUSIC, YET HE KNEW NO ENGLISH! 

THEY HAD A LARGE ART DAY AND GUITARS EXHIBIT.  SOME WERE HAND STITCHING THEIR QUILTS!  I SAID IT WAS UNUSUAL.  ONE BOOTH WAS SELLING NATIVE INDIAN JEWELRY.  THE MAN KNEW HE WAS PART CHEROKEE.  I TOLD HIS WIFE SHE WAS PART NATIVE TOO.

THERE WAS A STRANGE CHEESE CONTEST.  IT WAS OK AS WE TASTED SOME OF THE ENTRIES.  IT TOOK ME MUCH TIME WALKING TO FIND THE CONTESTS AND SHOWS.  I FINALLY MADE IT TO THE THE EXHIBITS WITH VECTORS.  I HAD A SPIDER BITE THAT I THOUGHT WAS A TICK.  I ASKED THEM WHAT TO DO WITH HOUSEHOLD SPIDERS, THEY SAID YOU COULD USE PESTICIDES.  I SAID I'D JUST KILL THEM.

I WATCHED A 4HEVENT AND THEN I WATCHED A PYGMY GOAT JUDGING CONTEST.  I HAD NEVER SEEN PYGMY GOATS.  SOME OF THE KIDS WERE TRYING TO CONTROL THESE ANIMALS. 

SOME FOLKS CLAPPED AS THEY WON RIBBONS.  WAY DOWN BY THE COWS I FINALLY GOT AN ICE CREAM FOR FREE!  THEY HAD AUTOMATED MILKING MACHINES.  SOME KIDS KNEW THE DAIRY QUEEN.  A CLOWN DROVE A FUNNY MOBIL.

THEY HAD A VENDOR SHOWCASE ALL KINDS OF STRANGE SALESPEOPLE.  ONE GUY TRIED TO PUT ELECTRODES ON MY BACK AS A MASSAGE- I WAS TOO SENSITIVE TO THAT.  ANOTHER DEMO WAS LIKE A ROCK AND ROLL MACHINE THAT VIBRATED TOO ROUGH.

THEY HAD A REALLY SOFT BED AND IT SANK SO LOW I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU WOULD SLEEP IN IT. SOME INDIANS WERE EATING SO MUCH JUNK FOOD, AND FEW FOLKS WERE MY AGE...  MOSTLY OLDER FOLKS WERE HERE AS IT WAS SENIOR DAY.

I WENT BACK TO A CHEF DEMO THAT HAD A GAL SAY TO BUY GOOD FOOD FROM FARMERS MARKETS AS THE VEGIS ARE GOOD FOR A LONGER TIME..IT WAS WEIRD HOW SHE MADE A STRANGE WATERMELON SALAD WITH BASIL AND OLIVES!  SOME KIDS WERE RIDING AN EXPENSIVE PONY RIDE FOR $7.OO DOLLARS.  I WENT TO THE PETTING ZOO WHICH WAS FUN AND SAW THE BABY WALLABY!