Okay, I haven’t truly blogged in awhile.  It’s that Facebook crap that keeps me from the blog.  Not really, but it sure is much easier.   It’s been a very busy spring.  The workload is great and there’s no sign of relief, but what doesn’t kill me will only make be better right?

It has been nice to see our ducks return to the pond behind our house.  It doesn’t help I feed them, now they come up to the back door looking for their dinner.   They won’t let me be near them when they eat, they just waddle back down to the pond.  They do have a nice calming effect, they don’t have too much to worry about.

What’s fun to watch is these two ducks have become protective of their pond and their free food.  There’s another male duck that will try to land in our pond.  Our male duck doesn’t like that and chases him away, and then returns to his partner.  They make a lot of noise while doing it and gets Casey all up and barking.

Today another dog was doing his best to try to get to the ducks in the water.  He must have made 15 laps around the pond to find a way to be closer.  No luck.  All the while, Casey just barked and barked at the whole scene.  I needed two asprin after that.

Well I could type all day, but I have laundry to do and then have to do some wireframing.  Oh the fun.

Posted: March 28th, 2009 under Just another entry.
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It’s been a long time since I’ve been to a fair, let alone the State Fair.  Sandy & I drive by the fairgrounds every day on our way to and from work…so it wasn’t going to take much to talk ourselves into going.  Of course, two complementary tickets also happened to fall into my hands (thanks Marco, Sr.).

Fair Train arriving at Fisher Station

One of the cool things they do for the fair is the Fair Train. The Indiana Transportation Museum operates it between Fishers and the fairgrounds every day during the fair. It uses old Burlington Northern passenger cars. It was a nice ride to the fair.

Once we got to the fair, we hit the show barns. Why? Because we’re city kids and it’s interesting to see how kids still embrace the farming life. The pigs are always interesting…we saw the “World’s Largest Boar” – one fat pig. I felt sorry for the “World’s Second Largest Boar” it didn’t have anywhere near the same amount of crowds.

They really do butt heads!

After the pigs we stopped by the sheep barn, many of sheep had been sheered by the time we got there, many of them were wearing their blankets.  (Only the pig barn was not air conditioned.)  I snapped a photo of the two on the right who were butting heads and getting yelled at by their owners.

A little side note, it was kind of interesting that the families who raised theses animals would have a pen right next to their animals, all set up with chairs to hang out in during the day.  Not what I expected.

Santa Gertrudis Cattle

When we got to the cattle barn we were quite surprised to see Santa Gertrudis cattle being shown and judged.  The only reason we knew what kind of cattle Santa Gertrudis cattle were was because they were originally bread in South Texas on the King Ranch.  We got to learn more than we ever wanted when we took the tour a few years ago.

Quack

We also saw ducks, chicken, turkeys, geese and rabbits.  I had no idea there were so many different breeds.  We also walked through some of the craft barns, 4H projects barns and all the other usual stuff you do at the fair.

Can you say heaven?

But the best part was the fried dessert!  We could have chosen from so many different options including the traditional fried Twinkie or Ho-Ho.   But the fair had more to offer including deep fried bananas foster cheesecake, fried Carmel lattes and fried brownies.

Posted: August 9th, 2008 under Just another entry.
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