Sonoma County flair

Went up to the Sonoma County Fair yesterday, me, Tony, Jeffrey and the Teenager. Met up with my family. It was a whole big gang of us wandering around taking in macabre sights and colorful divertisements. It was like a reality show, except without the offensive language bleeped out.

Had a good time, but I got to say I'm troubled by this trend of charging to see special animals.

I think it was two years ago they had this pig in a special trailer, and you had to pay a dollar to see this pig. He was supposedly The World's Biggest Pig.

Well, this year, in addition to the pig, they had the World's Smallest Horse that you had to pay a dollar to see. I mean, separate from the pig. It's a dollar for the pig, and a dollar for the horse.

Obviously, pound for pound, the pig is a better deal, but I was curious about the horse, so I gave the teenager a dollar and sent him in there with my camera, and he took a picture of the World's Smallest Horse, which, I guess it's kind of hard to get an idea of how small he is, but the Teenager said he was about the size of his dog.

I said well, what are we waiting for. Lets saddle up Fang, put him in a trailer and start charging the rubes a buck a throw.

But I think we're gonna have a no camera policy.

Kurt "big daddy" True
30 july 2006