152. Thoughts from a County Fair

Old Fashioned On Purpose

Jill Winger

Canning, Homesteading, Farming, Leisure, Farm, Homestead, Gardening, Hobbies, Cows, Chickens, Cooking, How To, Home & Garden, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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County fairs across the country have been canceled. Thankfully here in Wyoming, we were still able to participate in this great tradition. If you’ve never been to a county fair, it’s effectively a lot of sitting around mixed with moments of controlled chaos. Why do we do it? That’s the question we get asked most frequently by friends and neighbors. With the significant amount of time and effort required to move our entire life to the fairgrounds for a week, on th...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Old Fashioned On Purpose Podcast.
0:04.4	A lot of county fairs across the country have been cancelled, but thankfully,
0:09.8	our small town Wyoming county fair was one that still happened.
0:15.8	We wrapped it up a couple weeks ago,
0:18.6	and now that we're home, the trailers are unpacked,
0:21.0	we've mostly recovered. I wanted to share some of my thoughts from that
0:27.4	week. I had a lot of time to think for those of you who are fair families, you know that it's a lot of sitting around at the fairgrounds, punctuated by moments of extreme chaos.
0:39.0	So I had some time to process through all of the fun things that happened and I had some things to
0:44.9	share with you. So here are my thoughts from a county fair. I'm your host Jill
0:50.6	Winger and this is the podcast for the Trail Blazers, the Mavericks, the
0:55.0	Mavericks, the Mavrix, the Macyard Farmers.
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