MOO!

Last Friday we went to the Common Ground Fair, which is run by the Maine Organic Farmers Association. This is a old fashioned fair experience. There are no rides, no games to waste your money on and no scary carnies. Instead you get great agricultural demonstrations, craft tents where Maine artists can sell there wares and fantastic food. It is a vegetarians paradise! I look forward to the food every year and try to plan out my food throughout the day. Each year I look forward to a few items. Good Indian food and a strawberry cream puff dessert. I fill in between those items with new food each year.

This year we went to a talk on how to raise strawberries. When we moved into our house we were lucky to have a strawberry bed that the previous tenant's had started. The berries are amazing and we would like to keep the bed running for as long as possible. Liam was a gem the entire time during the talk. He was cooing and smiling at the people sitting close by to us. It seems we might have a little flirt on our hands.

After the strawberry talk we thought we would take Liam to check out the animals. Well, we enjoyed seeing the cows, horses and the alpacas. As you can see from the photos Liam was too tired to care. Perhaps next year he will find them a little more exciting.

Towards the end of the day we wandered over to the farmer's market. On the way there we passed a small hill that was littered with children sliding down the hill on pieces of cardboard. They looked like they were having a ball and Mike and I talked about how great it was that kids were enjoying something so incredibly simple. No electronic devices were needed to occupy these kids, just some grass and a piece of cardboard. It made us excited for future years when we could set Liam to playing among the other children.