Have you ever seen something that some one else has made and thought to yourself....." I can do that better" For years the guys and I have been wandering through the various buildings at the Geauga County Fair looking at all the veggies and canned goods that people make, and we would comment that the stuff I make looks better than what won ribbons. Mike has been bugging me for about the last 5 years to enter something that I have made and see what happens. Year after year I would forget to get a fair book to check the entry dates, or I would call Betty and ask her and she would laugh and say "last week". This year I went on line early and printed a fair book and made sure to mark the entry date on the calendar. So at the end of June the canning started and I got very busy, but I did remember to fill out the entry form and submit it. I randomly went through the classes and chose a few for canned goods and two for baking.
Luckily all of my items had to be turned in on Tuesday before the fair started so I got all my jars ready, nice and sparkly clean and waited till the last darn minute to bake the stupid cookies (see previous post). Packed everything up and headed to the fair grounds to drop all of it off. When I got to the building there was a small line so Betty and I took the time to people watch, like usual! LOL When I got up to the table there was another lady unpacking her jars also, and she had these pretty little material tops on her lids. Betty's comment was "sorry I forgot to tell you about all these freaks that cut material and make these pretty little jar toppers". We laughed about it to ourselves and went about our business unpacking my stuff. When the others had cleared out we took a few minutes to talk to the lady behind the booth checking stuff in and asked about judging and did those freaky jar tops count for a score. Thankfully we were told they did not matter at all and the only reason that most people use those was to mark their jars for easy pick up at the end of fair. Needless to say I will become one of those freaks next year!
So I get home from dropping everything off and set about to the rest of my afternoon. Then Mona called after she dropped her stuff off and found out that there were over 850 entries in the canned goods section. My initial response was "I don't have a hope in hell of placing in anything" not that I really thought I had a chance anyway it was just my opinion that my canning looked better. Wednesday rolls around and we all head back to the fair to drop off Darren's and Dave's veggies that they entered. While we were there we wanted to sneak a peak into the barn where the canned stuff is housed but they had it blocked off while they were judging. We head back home, finish chores and cuss and discuss when we are going to head back on Thursday. Dave & Mona were going in the AM and Mike and I decided to wait till Darren got home from school to go. So it's Thursday morning and my phone starts to ring....it's Mona and she is talking a mile a minute. One of the things I understood her say was "You won sweet corn".
So now I am excited and can't wait to call Mike to tell him I won something. I spent most of the day giggling to myself about actually winning a ribbon. Then Mona calls back and told me I won ribbons in a lot of the categories that I entered. Then Betty called to let me know that Darren won a second place with his entry of white eggs. So I am totally excited and I can't wait till the guys get home so we can leave and the time is dragging. We finally get there and head right over to the canned goods and I grab the results book. I am in shock! Out of 13 entries I won 8 ribbons, 2 blue, 3 red, 2 white and 1 yellow. Not bad for my first time entering anything in the fair.
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