Last Night we went online to look up the Windsor Fair. Horror of horrors! There was no mention of any activities today
at the fair and it looked like there was no fair today. I was pretty much inconsolable because I had
been looking forward to the Windsor fair for weeks. Missed the fair two weeks ago at Skowhegan
due to rain, and this weekend looked like it was going to be a good one and I
wanted to go to the fair. I went to bed
totally demolished – no fair. We had
gone to the rock and gem and mineral show on Saturday but decided to not go to
the fair but wait till Monday. Then
looked on the internet – no mention of the fair for Monday on their website……………….devastation.
Then this morning, I got to thinking – The president of the
line dance club said that they were performing today at 1.30pm and that we should
show up and dance with them when they invite the audience up to dance….and that
there would be no class tonight. So we
decided to chance it – no mention on the website, but our leaders at dance
group were going to perform…………..but first I had to cut my friend Sue’s hair. We then delivered a birthday gift to another
lady and off we went to the fair. All was
well until we reached the corner where we turned towards the fairgrounds. Just got past the general store that
advertises wedding dresses, guns and cold beer , Husseys Store, and the traffic
slowed to a crawl. Seems like everyone
wanted to go to the fair and if not, then you had no choice but to stay in line till you could get
past the fair and continue on your way.
After what seemed to be way too long, we turned into the
fairground parking and they took our admission price and stamped our hands as
we turned into the parking lot. Bill was
hungry, so we looked at the “Grease to Go” food stands and chose the café they
have on the grounds. We shared a table with
a couple who did not mind sharing the table and we had a wonderful time. I talked to the lady about genealogy and gave
her some internet addresses to look up that were free to help her with her
research. After lunch we wandered among
the cows and sheep and goats and poultry and finally found the Windsor Fair
Mall.
The Mall seems to have some of the same vendors available
who were there at the Fiber Frolic weekend.
As we passed through the Mall building, we found ourselves at the
entertainment stage and the Silver Foxes
Dance club was beginning their performance.
They looked nice with the men in white shirts, dark pants and cowboy
hats and the women with white shirts and a decorated bandana on their shoulders
and white shirts. They did many of the
dances that we do at class and it was a really good performance.
We then went to see the draft horses do their weight
pull. There was a wooden sled in the
middle of the arena that had 1500pounds of cement blocks on them and these two
matched horses had to pull this sled a certain distance. I think that these horses do this feat often
because as soon as they heard the chain latch over the hook on the sled, they
dug deep and easily pulled the sled laden with the blocks for the required
distance. It makes me wonder what the
origin of this weight pull could be and I think that it might have something to
do with the early days when horses were used to pull logs out of forests etc.
in the days before mechanization. That
is what I thought it might be but will have to look into it further to see if
that is the origin of this activity.
After we had seen what we wanted to see at the fair, we left
and went to Husseys. Wow! What a store.
When we went downstairs a customer was talking to a worker there and I
heard him say “Well most of the customers now are ‘from away’. I took pictures of various parts of the
store. They really should charge
admission. The locals say that if you need
anything, Husseys carries it and if they don’t carry it, then you don’t need
it.
After Husseys, we went down to Gardiner looking for a member
who seems to have moved away and did not find them. What I did see was really amazing. On the front lawn of the house there was a
pile of stuff with FREE written on it and we pulled in behind a man parked
there and he was stuffing things he had retrieved from the pile into the
hatchback of his car. I noticed that he
had a whole big box of stuffed toys along with assorted metal items. He left and another car stopped and the people
helped themselves to the pile; A good way to dispose of stuff if you don’t want
to take it to the dump.
On the way home we stopped at the grocery store and I bought
a Lobster. The man was going to just
sell me a live Lobster, but I had asked him to cook it. He did and we ate Lobster for dinner.
We then went to see the Obama movie. Enough said!
After the movie we started talking to a couple who also had
sat through it and it was a good conversation.
I talked to the lady about genealogy and Bill talked to the man about
the church. The man had some questions
about the church and so they had a good long chat.
I am glad that I can go to bed tonight – I am tired – and we
had a full day. Back to the Archives tomorrow
and back to the task of preparing papers for digitizing for me.
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