Every year you hear me go on and on about how great our Fair is.  I am not sure if it is the cotton candy, the lights, the rides or a combination of all the sights and sounds… but I am ADDICTED!  I truly get as excited as Edie Grace does.

Probably the main reason would date back to my childhood.  Each year, my Grandmother Edith (Edie Grace’s namesake) and her husband, my granddaddy Harold, would take me to the fair.  My granddaddy passed away the first week of my Senior year in High School which is sadly over half my life ago now.  He ALWAYS shared my excitement about the fair.  Something about being the first-born grandchild and still the only girl, may have played a little role in that.  Going to the fair transcends me back to those outings…holding their hands loving every minute of the experience.  I still wear a hand-carved "dog" necklace on a leather rope from time – to – time that my granddaddy bought me there one year.  Just holding it in my hand…oh the memories!  People always warned me that you get a little nostalgic when you get my age…guess they were right!

Anyway…be sure to visit our booth (the pics are a sneak peek…boy I need to clean the lens of the BLOG camera!!!) when you go to the fair this week.  And if you happen to see me with cotton candy in one hand and a corn dog in the other…just smile and remember some happy childhood memories of your own!

p.s.  the other reason I am so nostalgic about my granddaddy is that we made our annual pilgrimage to Memaw Edith’s church yesterday and to DeWayne’s family church last Sunday for both of their Homecomings.  I told you the story about the well my great-granddaddy put in at the grave-site on a BLOG last October.  Well, the wasps are STILL there…arrgghh!!!  Anyway..here is this year’s picture of Edie Grace visiting the cemetery.  (she is getting soooo tall!)