Peregrine

For the past 20+ years, Charlotte’s family have traveled to Blackfoot, Idaho for the annual East Idaho State Fair. The fair “officially” begins on Labor day, but all the judging and setup is done by the end of the Friday before, so they have always gone up for the weekend as it’s less crowded. Still, each year I’ve been up there with them, it’s been fairly (no pun intended) crowded.

This year, Charlotte and I were the only family that went. As I needed to spend monday getting some work on NeverBlock done, we planned our trip for Saturday & Sunday.

The weather was very nice on Saturday and I bit warmer on Sunday. we enjoyed some of the usual foodstuffs and tried a couple of new things, too. We decided not to buy Ginsu knives this time and saw that this year there were far fewer crossstitches entered than usual. Of course, we had to see some of the animals, too:

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We found this guy at the petting zoo.

Dachshund up close.

A little Dachshund kiss for me.

Yup! I’m tasty.

He kept climbing higher to make sure he could taste my cheeks, chin, nose, eyes, ears and even my tongue (I didn’t let that happen on purpose). :)

Ah, a nice little portrait shot.

Although, we really liked this dog, we just couldn’t see ourselves shelling out $600 to take him home. Apparently, they did sell most of the dogs they had brought with them over the weekend. I guess that’s how the petting zoo stays free each year.

We also found some piglets:
Mama’s tired of you guys; take a break.

One of the babies was even a little curious:
Curious pig.

We even saw some rather curly tails:
Now, that’s a curl.

I’m looking forward to next year.