Pioneer Days at the Fairgrounds

This morning we went to the Farmers Market first. We bought a dozen ears of sweet corn and had some for lunch, it was very good. Next stop was the Flea Market where we bought some tomatoes and peaches. Then we were off to Pioneer Days as the fairgrounds. All three of these places are on a two mile stretch of the same highway.

Pioneer Days was interesting. There were quite a few people in mid 1800's apparel. The facing us, is Matthew, our new, young, insurance man. He had a bunch of rubber band rifles and was letting kids shoot at the target against the tree.

Below are a couple of people in period dress.

There were at least five, maybe six, stages around the fairgrounds with pretty much constant activity while we were there. Lots of different styles of music (nothing close to hard rock, thankfully). We think we just missed the cloggers at one of the stages.

Of course no trip to town would be complete without a "parts trip" to the hardware store, for plumbing parts. While I was in getting stuff Kathy walked over to another part of the parking lot and bought some apples that were fresh off a local tree.

Then back home for sweet corn and hamburgers for lunch. I don't know how the video will work, let me know. This is on our way back out TN 101. It is the section that drops down, crosses Laurel Creek and then climbs back out. The grade down, and then back up. is much steeper than it appears in the video.

I managed to take a nap after lunch and then went to our building and did a little more plumbing. Tom & Mary Lou had a campfire and we roasted hot dogs for supper, and set by the campfire until after dark.

Tomorrow is church in the morning. Tom already unloaded the wood we split earlier this week but there is still a lot of wood on the trailer that we only split, by hand, to the point of getting the pieces small enough so that two of us could lift them to put them on the trailer. Perhaps tomorrow he and I can get those off the trailer and split, so that next week we can go get the rest of tree.

Goodnight to all and may God bless you and yours.