In the last post I wrote about Day 4, but now I’ll back up and share photos of some of the other days at the fair.

Farm Club member, Siobhan, is one of Kirby’s favorite people. They wandered around the fair for awhile and came back with snacks. Siobhan’s hands aren’t always blue but she has been dyeing with indigo lately!

My dye garden was the focus of the display this year. Each of the 4-skein groups of yarn (except for the hollyhock-dyed yarn) used the same white and gray yarns as on the left. It is fun to get so many different colors from the same dye pot.

The Touching Table is always popular with visitors.

Many people don’t take this home, and we get some interesting sheep patterns.

Saturday was Kirby’s ninth birthday. We had zucchini muffins for breakfast before going to the fair.

Kirby helped wash sheep. We don’t wash the whole sheep but like to clean up the legs and scrub the horns to get the year’s accumulated dirt off them. We didn’t finish with the sheep…

…because we were distracted by my sister-in-law and niece and her kids. They took all the kids on the rides in the little kid side of the fair.

Kirby was thrilled. I had told her I’d let her do this ride, but I changed my mind when I found that you had to buy at least $20 worth of tickets. This elephant ride was the one that she’d been watching from the barn since Thursday.

They all went on the carousel.

Back at the barn Lisa gave Kirby the long-necked bottle that she’d bought the day before. Kirby got a ride back to Dixon about 1 p.m. for a birthday party with cousins arranged by her other grandmother.

The Farm Club crew continued to entertain / educate fairgoers.

That night, Aunt Meryl, visiting for a few days from Boise, picked Kirby up from town and brought her to our place just after I got home. She brought her a Taylor Swift shirt, bracelets, and tattoos. This was a very busy day for this nine-year-old.