Still Not There Yet

-No "acceptance" post yet. Yesterday I bought a Canna plant (Fire Bird) at the grocery store, and planted it in our yard. My husband says I'm still trying to believe that it is not heading towards fall and school. Perhaps.

-We made our annual trek to the fair the other day. Among the usual things, the following occured:

*Emily got licked by Matilda the cow, and sneezed on by a pig (whose name we didn't catch).
*Stella tried to be a surrogate mom to a baby pygmy goat, whose real mother was removed from the pen and led to the judging arena. The baby goat just cried and cried. It tugged on my mom heart strings.
*In the cat display area, a hand-written sign on the cage of one of the cats asked people not to try to touch her cat, as it was "tierd (the "e" was crossed out) and "crancy." I think I might put a sign up in my classroom this year when I'm feeling a bit "tierd" and "crancy."
*I chatted at length with this old guy who was a bee keeper, and was displaying his hive. I told him about a poem in book called Joyful Noise, Poems for Two Voices, where there is a poem about the life of a honey bee, told from both the Queen's perspective and the Worker Bee's perspective. It's quite clever. He thought he'd get his daughter to read it at his next bee keeper's chapter meeting.
*We parked in a handicapped spot, but it still was a long walk to get to the entrance to the fair. When we finally left the fair, Eric was tired of walking, so we caught their little "shuttle." I asked the gal if they could take us to the far end of the handicapped parking area, which is where we were parked, because my husband was too tired to walk. She said sure. The driver pulled out, and took us directly to our van. As we got out, he said, "Guess how I knew which was your car? I was out having my lunch when you guys came to the fair." Wow. That was hours and hours ago! He remembered us? Out of all the people he saw that day? That old guy's memory was sharP!
*We stayed at the fair late enough to see the fireworks display. That has never happened to us at the fair before.
*We got a family picture taken at the "Giant Button" booth. It was a giant button, and I'm going to take it to school this year.