Fair Time and it's HOT

Our town has been fixing up a lot next to the grocery and making it into Heritage Park, and this is where our Farmers' Market is every Thurs. afternoon in the summer.  This shelter has recently been built with a brick walkway to it and flowers and trees planted.  The last picture is what I bought yesterday.  Oops, I forgot the peaches.


Yesterday was a first for me - I helped the judge at Open Pantry at the county fair.  She was judging the jams, cookies, breads, rolls and cakes that the adults entered.  It was fun.  Another helper did the bookwork.  My job was bringing the entries to the judge.  She would cut them to see the inside texture, color, doneness, etc. and then taste.  We got to taste some of them too.  Then one cookie or bar or slice of bread would be put on a sm. white plate for display throughout the fair.  I put those in Ziploc bags, attached their ribbon they were awarded and took them to the display shelves.   The Champion of Open Pantry is a Healthy Fruit Muffin that had lots of ingredients including apricots.  They looked really nice - very uniform in size and color.  Reserve Champion was a cinnamon roll entry that looked nice and tasted good.  There weren't many entries (mostly cookies) so I'm thinking I should enter some Butterhorn Rolls at least next year.  For helping, I received a ticket for a free turkey supper for Bill and I on Sun. at the fair.  That may be his birthday dinner?????  I was in 4-H for 7 years and my favorite project was Foods - and the reason I learned to bake.  It was fun to be on this side of judging. 

Peggy has a little visitor - our niece, Taylor - so we're having them over for lunch today.  I have a little craft planned for them, and we'll have to show her the baby birds.  Time to make the deviled eggs, salad and brownies!