The last of the fair pictures (I promise)

Here's the last four pictures from the September 2005 Puyallup (pew-all-up) Fair. It's  held each Sept and April (the smaller Spring Fair) in Puyallup, WA.

1..another table setting entry and a beautiful quilt

2..looking down thru rows and rows of quilts.  There were 97 entered this year.  All beautiful and unique.

3..a Hobby Hall catagory, handmade dolls.  Someday I hope to take a doll making class.

4..and finally another Hobby Hall catagory, handmade doll houses.  This grand prize winner is actually a replica of an old time theater building.

The next fall fair starts September 8, 2006 and runs for three weeks.  Why not make your travel plans now and come to western Washington and "Do the Puyallup."

I hope you've enjoyed viewing the pictures as much as I have enjoyed sharing them.   Until next time....Linda

More Pictures from the Puyallup Fair

Here's three more pictures.  It seems that's the most I can post at one time.  There's four left ...I'll see what happens with them in the next entry.

#1.. you can put a quarter in these jiggle foot things and vibrate the blood flow back into your feet so you can keep walking.

#2..the girl clown insisted that the guy clown take her picture with my friend Dianne and myself.  We are not really standing sideways..

#3..and there they go, off on their weird bikes.

Easy Like A Sunday Morning #26

EASY - like Sunday Morning!  From; Kelly at http://journals.aol.com/pixiedustnme/Inmyopinion/

Here's my question of the week.  Answer it in your journal and come back here and leave me a link in the comments.  I'll post your links next weekend and we'll start over again next Sunday :-)

Tell me.....

"What does fall mean to you?  Not everybody in J-land has 4 extreme seasons, so what does the season change mean where you live?"

Fall in the Pacific Northwest is much like it is in Kelly's part of the country.  As I look out my window this morning, I can barely see the asphalt road in my little mobile community.  What I see are gold, brown and bronze leaves on the road.  The wind and rain this time of year, scatters them everywhere.  On my front lawn I see more leaves (from the neighbor's trees), debris from my huge cedar tree and rose petals from my bushes that were in full bloom, a couple days ago.  Even tho the air is crisp and fresh....it's also a sad time.  I know that soon my beautiful hanging baskets will wither and die from the cold.  The roses will stop blooming and become dormant and with the first freeze, the dahlias will turn black and be gone until next summer.      Fall means those little goblins will be knocking on my door for a handout in just a few weeks (maybe I'll give them toothbrushes this year) and that the Christmas decorations are up in the stores at the mall.  I walked into Costco the other day and was greeted by an array of decorated Christmas trees, strings of Christmas lights, and lighted reindeer nodding their heads as I passed by.  Now, once again, if we could just skip winter....then fall would be delightfully followed by spring !

One More Sunday Morning Entry

I saw this story on the local news yesterday but just now turned on the tube and they were talking about it again.  That ought to keep the Martians and UFO's (if there are any) out of our air space....can you imagine running into a giant salmon at 30,000 feet?

http://www.komotv.com/stories/39541.htm

Sunday Morning

Well, it a dark and dreary Sunday morning here in Western Washington.  The weather guy says "thunder showers and rain" for today.  That's ok...I have ironing to do and unless the power goes out....I'll turn on a good movie and iron away. 

This morning I'm off to church,however.  We have a new pastor and today is his first day in the pulpit.  I've heard him once before when he came from Eastern Washington with his wife and 2 kids to introduce himself and give us a brief message.  He was approved unanomously when the Board voted to call him to our church as the new pastor.  So it's exciting to once again have a regular pastor for the church.  The former pastor and family left in January to go to Wisconsin to teach at a Bible college.

I think this is the day I'll change purses, too.  I guess it's time to put the summer woven bag away and get out the winter black one.  Or better yet... maybe stop on the way home from church and get a new one.  I have a thing for hand bags (and it's not good.)

I hope we've put those spammers out of business for awhile.

I'm going to try to post the last of my fair pictures later today.  Until then......Linda

 

The Puyallup Fair is Over But.....

I wanted to post some more pictures from the fair.  Last Sunday (Sept 25th) was the last day...but the memories live on. 

Picture #1 quilt and table setting, the table setting is another catagory where you can enter your name and then fair officials draw so many names for the contest.  There were two catagories this year, one was "holiday table" and the other was "Orient Express."

Picture #2 the area of the Hobby Hall where kids of all ages can enter their Lego creations (my grandkids love this one)

Picture 3 shows a local bar-b-que restaurant's outdoor cooking area. They cook ribs and chicken halves over alder wood fire.  Yumm!

ANOTHER VILLAGE HAS LET OUT IT'S IDIOT

Well, I got hit again today from another idiot,  playing games in AOL journals.  So dear friends...I'd advise you to block; txrebalgirl26  from your journals and emails.

Instead of messing with the journals of decent people, why can't they spend their time volunteering in their community or something worthwhile?