McHenry County Fair

You never get around to seeing the sights close to home, right? So I made another list — Things to Do in McHenry County.

The County Fair was on this weekend. None of my family members were excited about going, so I headed over by myself. After getting halfway there and realizing I’d brought my camera case but not my camera and turning around and driving all the way home and getting my camera and turning back around and driving all the way there and then driving right past the place without seeing it and having to turn around and drive back, I parked and paid my $7. It wasn’t the most exciting three and a half hours I’ve ever spent, but it had its moments. I’ll save the major features for future posts, but here’s an overview.

I’ll start with the highlight of any fair — walking about looking at the back end of cows.

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Where’s Waldoe? Part 3

White-tailed Deer - Main Street Prairie - July 21, 2008

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Where’s Waldoe? Part 2

White-tailed Deer - Prairieview - July 23, 2008

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Gamboling in the evening sun

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As a parent, how would you answer these questions?

When my daughters were younger, my wife and I would go into our bedroom after work to spend some time away from them. They weren’t allowed to knock on our door or call to us except in an emergency. My younger daughter got around this by writing notes and slipping them under the door. We would generally play along and slip her answer back to her. Here’s an example:

As long as you eat your rice, you can be anybody you want to be.

It says, “Can I be done with my rice? I took 4 big bites. Circle yes or no.” We didn’t answer that one, probably because we’d already told her to eat ALL her rice.

Some questions were a bit trickier to answer, such as this one:

That should say

But you can see that we, as responsible parents, did our best.

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