Sep
25
Fall Fair!
Filed Under Family, friends | 3 Comments
As you know last weekend was our fall fair. This year the fair celebrates 151 years, and I’m pretty sure I have not missed one in my 23 years. It’s pretty cool to be able to say that, and most of my family members can say that as well!
Saturday morning I got up early with my friend Stef who was down for the weekend from Guelph. We headed to the fair to dust cases, so that they would be nice and shiny for people all through the weekend. It was really foggy in the morning so it made for some really neat pictures, much different colours then you normally see at the fair!
Foggy morning view
The sun tries to shine through!
After that we walked to breakfast and then walked to the place where we always watch the fair from. Lots of other people joined us there and we all watched the long parade together. It’s especially fun when people you know are in it, and this year mom and our friend Laura were in it.
Mom & Laura
Down the parade route.
For the rest of the day we wandered around checking everything out, and I made sure to snap lots of pictures. One thing we always like to check out is the progress building where all the entries are displayed! This year I entered a few pictures, knitting, a scrapbook page and a pie. I ended up winning 1st place for a picture, 2nd for my novice knitting, and 3rd for my scrapbook page! Mic also entered some really good arts and crafts and ended up winning 2nd for a picture frame she made!
Sleepy pigs waiting for the pig show
We checked out some cow shows, horse shows, the petting area and helped out with childrens games.
4H Dairy show
A little pony in the petting area
Mic relaxing in the shade, sporting my $7.50 sunglasses!
Then our friends showed us some magic tricks and we headed home for the day!
I’ll post about Sunday’s exciting events tomorrow..
Thanks for reading! Did you know you can get Five Blondes delivered (semi) daily? Just click for our RSS feed. See you soon!
Sep
24
Pie time!
Filed Under Family, baking, friends | 9 Comments
Friday marked the opening of our hometown’s fall fair, which also means it was our pie party!
Our friend Stef walking to the fair
Oma and Micaela walking to the fair
Before the pie party most of us gathered together at the official opening of fair. Our fair has been around for 151 years! After a long day of judging the winners are announced and awards are given out. This year we had a first for our fair, a male was announced as the fair ambassador.
Mom was the homecraft director this year.
Once all the homecraft, school fair, and crop awards are given out, there’s one thing left… the pie auction! Basically the pie auction is a fundraiser for the fair, to keep it running year after year. 15 pies are auctioned off- 1st, 2nd and 3rd in 4 different categories. (Last year Micaela and I made pies and they won so they were auctioned off!). This year we brought home 3 pies to our party (bought by 3 different families).
Expensive pie!
As you can see the pies at our party ranged in price from $230 -$300, but we also bought 2 pies that were not auctioned off for a much cheaper price ($9.00).
The line up of pies
We had cherry pie, apple pie, raspberry pie, unknown (possibly plum?) pie, and peach pie. The raspberry pie was the favourite overall.
Close up of the raspberry pie
I’ll post more about Saturday & Sunday at the fair tomorrow. (See pictures on flickr if you are interested in getting a preview!)
What’s the most you would pay for a prize winning pie?
Sep
19
On (expensive) Pie
Filed Under Family, food, friends | 10 Comments
Tonight, we blondes (ok, three of us) will venture forth to our hometown fair to celebrate all of the wonderfulness of fall, and of pie.
This is going to sound ridiculous, but then again ‘ridiculous’ is pretty close to ‘normal’ for our family and friends. Basically, there will be several hundreds of dollars worth of homemade pie purchased in an auction (benefiting our local fair board) and consumed in a pie party at our farm. The pie might be made by a local with over 50 years of pie baking experience, or it might be baked by a teenager just starting out in the world of baking.
You receive only tiny slices, because there’s only around 5 or so pies purchased. Apple, cherry, or raspberry? A la mode? You got it. mmmmmm PIE…
It’s worth every penny. That our parents spend.
An open invitation is extended. Join us! BYOB. Also, BYO plate and fork.
PS: What is a pirate’s favourite arts and crafts material? Yaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrn! Happy Talk Like A Pirate day!
Sep
15
Sometimes it’s better not to ask at all
Filed Under Family | 13 Comments
Mom, Micaela, Katelyn and I were at a baby shower for a dear friend on Saturday. Check out our flickr for some pictures of the adorable little guy - so big already and only a month old! All of the women in the house were ooh-ing and aah-ing over the toys, books, clothes, and other important stuff that a baby needs (note to self: remember stuff) when I walked upstairs to get myself a glass of water.
The men were in the kitchen. Dad, grandpa, and a couple of neighbors. The grandpa of the newborn is dad’s “boyfriend”. It’s not entirely uncommon for his truck to spend all day at our farm, nor is it uncommon for his wife to call up looking for him or just leaving a message for him. If dad’s not around, I might ask mom questions like where’s dad? Oh, he’s out with Bob. Why are you so stressed out, mom? Oh, it’s because your dad and Bob went up north snowmobiling and I have to do all the chores. Who almost ran dad over with his snowmobile? Bob (true story). Who’s in the hot tub with dad? BOB.
Bob is a funny guy, always joking and laughing. He’s well known for his crazy hair and boisterous personality. On Saturday he had a suitably ‘BOB’ question for me:
If getting married is so great, who do you only do it once?
Oooooh boy. *rolls eyes*
But I had an answer for him. One word:
PLANNING.
The all-consuming, never-ending, time-sucking, money-eating world of WEDDING PLANNING.
