Knit Sisters

The baby judging last Friday evening at the Fairfax fair turned out to be not quite what I was expecting.  Although there were babies,

                                     we did not actually judge them.

Instead, we judged the aspirants to the Little Mr. and Miss Fairfax crown.  These were 4-to 6-year-olds who were dressed to the nines.

                                       A few hopefuls waiting for their turn on stage.

I had two fellow judges:

                                             Rob and Jesse, who will be a sophomore at the University of Missouri this fall and is studying nursing.

Our scoring sheet.

                                                            And you can see from this that we actually were to take points away if the kids were crying!  (Although thankfully none of them did.)

There was quite a crowd there. 

                                  (This is about half the crowd; there was a roughly equal number sitting on the other side.)

And this guy:

There were also homemade funnel cakes, which looked pretty darned good.  I was lucky I didn’t have any money on me.  (Or unlucky, depending upon how you look at it.)

We finally picked our winners, and they seemed a little stunned.  (This little girl is indeed going to be in Rob’s kindergarten class this fall.) 

 

All in all, it was a good time, and especially good to see a small rural town that is still a vibrant community, whose occupants seem genuinely proud of their tiny town.  Fairfax seemed idyllic that night–the rural America that we would all like to believe once existed and might still exist if only we were lucky enough to stumble onto it.

P. S.  I’m a little stalled on that I-cord edging for Nicola.  I picked up the stitches around the borders,     

 

and started the I-cord, of which I have about 6 inches done.

Now I’ll be sticking that pin in my eye.

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