My favorite time of year is fair season, when the arts and
crafts, flowers, food and entertainment call me to the Santa Cruz Fair Grounds
in Watsonville. I attend every year, but this year I noticed big differences in
the placement of things. Everything seemed bigger, cleaner and easier to find.
Just when I thought I couldn’t love the fair more, I love it more.
Dragon made out of duct tape
Today was senior’s day, and all the buzzards made their way
over to the Turkey Stampede. A remote-controlled truck the size of a bread box
drove round and round the oval track with a dozen turkeys following it.
Obviously the truck had grain in the back end, because the turkeys tried
desperately to catch up to the truck for a bite to eat. Occasionally a bird
would miss the turn and fly over the rails and then find his way back to the
truck. Most of the time, it was turkey chaos with goofy birds tripping over
each other in every direction.
Where are the turkeys?
From there we hit most of the free entertainment, like the
pig races and seal stunts. The rose garden was excellent this year thanks to Tomi
Edmiston and the rest of the Rose Society.
One could not ask for a better fair.
Where else can you find a live redwood tree to take home and plant—for free! A
couple more fairs and I will be living in a virtual redwood forest. What better
place for old buzzards to live?
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