{"id":889,"date":"2010-08-20T12:18:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T17:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/?p=889"},"modified":"2010-08-22T20:29:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T01:29:16","slug":"we-won-we-won-six-ribbons-at-the-ag-fair%e2%80%94woo-hoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/2010\/08\/we-won-we-won-six-ribbons-at-the-ag-fair%e2%80%94woo-hoo\/","title":{"rendered":"We Won! We Won! Six Ribbons at the Ag Fair\u2014Woo hoo!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This morning I got stung by a bee\u2014twice. It was my fault\u2014I was trying to harvest squash blossoms, and the bees weren\u2019t \u00a0finished with their business inside them. One bee got so mad at me that he followed me all the way to the compost pile. And somehow, one got inside my pants. Yeah, ouch.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m not in a bad mood\u2014I\u2019m as happy as can be. It\u2019s impossible not be filled with excitement around here. Martha\u2019s Vineyard in August\u2014especially the third week in August\u2014will make your head spin. Fireworks, the Fair, the President. Yesterday the President\u2019s motorcade whizzed by our front door. The family stays just a quarter-mile up the road from us, so this will be a familiar site.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But the most exciting thing of all for us yesterday wasn\u2019t the President\u2014it was the blue and red ribbons we won at the Fair.\u00a0 This past weekend, we carefully filled out the entry form after looking at what we had in our garden, and decided to enter in two flower categories and five vegetables. Since we grow our vegetables and flowers to sell at a farm stand, we had to enter as commercial growers.<\/p>\n

Wednesday morning, we picked our Fair entries after harvesting for the farm stand, took our goodies home and cleaned them up, and delivered them to the Ag Hall. We got a ticket for each entry and sat down at a picnic table to label everything. Next to us was a young family putting the finishing touches on all the artwork they were entering. \u00a0Kids and adults alike work all year long on Fair entries, and you see the coolest stuff on delivery day. My favorite was a giant piece of driftwood covered entirely with seashells and other shore treasures\u2014so great.\u00a0 Of course, I\u2019ve never entered something in a Fair before, so I was pretty darn excited. Not nearly as excited as Roy, though, who was so proud of the gladiolas he grew. \u00a0He\u2019d chosen three beautiful white stems that already were capturing oohs and ahs from friends we ran into, and he really wanted to win a ribbon.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So last night, when we made our way past the Rock Climbing Wall, the Diamond Dragon Ride, the Cotton Candy and Fried Chicken trailers, and the Flintstones Game to push through the doors of the Ag Hall, I was worried Roy might be disappointed. No need for that\u2014he rushed ahead and seconds later reappeared with a smile on this face. His glads got a red ribbon for second place, and he couldn\u2019t have been happier.\u00a0 I really didn\u2019t have expectations on our other stuff, so when Roy kept finding things and coming back to tell me \u201cthe onions got a blue ribbon!\u201d \u201cthe fingerlings got first place!\u201d I was amazed.\u00a0 We got six ribbons out of the seven categories we entered! How could that be, I thought? \"\"<\/a>Well, I looked around and it seemed to me there weren\u2019t a whole lot of commercial entries this year (many more home entries), and that we sort of won by default in some cases. No matter, I thought, this is still a thrill. But someone told me this morning that the judges don\u2019t award a ribbon if they don\u2019t think there\u2019s something worthy in a category; so that means our stuff was at least pretty decent! So for now, I\u2019ll let myself feel good about this\u2014after all, some of those darn vegetables started as seedlings in our apartment almost six months ago<\/a>, and there was a lot of love and hard work that got them to the Fair!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I celebrated with cotton candy (pink, of course)\u2014Roy with a sausage and peppers grinder. We played a game or two (Roy had to win me a stuffed animal, of course). The moon was glowing in a clear ink-blue sky, and the night was as fine as could be\u2014cool and dry. We strolled through the barn to see the draft horses, prize chickens, and magnificent oxen\u2014and then headed back to the car. After all, we still had work to do\u2014closing the farm stand for the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I got stung by a bee\u2014twice. It was my fault\u2014I was trying to harvest squash blossoms, and the bees weren\u2019t \u00a0finished with their business inside them. One bee got so mad at me that he followed me all the way to the compost pile. And somehow, one got inside my pants. Yeah, ouch. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}