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The sky was darkening, and little droplets were beginning to fall when my significant other and I reluctantly left the county fair tonight.<\/p>\n
We left smiling.<\/p>\n
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In a grim world where most indicators only point to more grimness \u2013 the economy, man\u2019s inhumanity to man, the whole nine yards \u2013 you need to get your mind off the bad news somehow. That\u2019s why the entertainment industry seems to flourish during economic depressions.<\/p>\n
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The county fair was a trip back in time. <\/span>I got to congratulate our local head librarian on the blue ribbon she won for her prize plant. <\/span>Paused to chat with a Backwoods Home reader who was steering folks toward the 4-H exhibits. Watched the young future farmers of America glowing with pride as they led their heifers into the center of the arena. <\/span>Listened to the laughter of children on the Ferris Wheel and the other rides that would probably give me vertigo at my age. <\/span>Vicariously shared the sinful, always self-apologetic indulgence in funnel cake, which seems to be fried dough buried under a snowstorm of powdered sugar. <\/span>And cheered with the little kids at the Pig Races.<\/p>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n There was even something from my world there: a shooting gallery sponsored by the local 4-H Club. Shooters had a choice of archery or air riflery. <\/span>We couldn\u2019t resist the latter, which consisted of Crosman pellet rifles hooked up to a humongous CO2 tank, with small targets that appeared to be at the regulation air rifle distance of 33 feet, the International standard of ten meters, from the shooter. Even got to watch the significant other set the benchmark for the top score of the night.<\/p>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yeah, it was raining when we left, and soon the thunderstorm was in full cry\u2026but it wasn\u2019t enough to dampen our spirits from that short, welcome trip back to a tradition that has preserved heartland American values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The sky was darkening, and little droplets were beginning to fall when my significant other and I reluctantly left the county fair tonight. We left smiling. In a grim world where most indicators only point to more grimness \u2013 the economy, man\u2019s inhumanity to man, the whole nine yards \u2013 you need to get your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearms","8":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"fair02\"](\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fair02.jpg\" "\\"fair02\\"")
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