Saturday brought yet another arts festival on the plaza, this one sponsored by Girls, Inc. We biked down to check it out. There was much more jewelry at this market than we had seen at other ones, and in general a nice diversity of booths. One of our favorites was South Texas mesquite with their gorgeous inlaid boxes and furniture. You can see photos of their work at http://www.mesquiteboxes.com/, but the web site doesn't do it justice. They inlay cracks in the wood with copper flakes and fill it with epoxy so the copper seems to float in the cracks.
Today we went to the Santa Fe County Fair, very reminiscent of the Caroline County Fair. There were some gorgeous quilts in the indoor exhibit area and of course lots of entries by 4H kids. Pretty much everyone had one a ribbon!
We had gotten there in time for the chili contest, judged by fairgoers. For $1 you got to sample all the red and green chilis contestants had made. They divided the judging into red and green chili. The green chilis were much better in my opinion, but they varied enormously in ingredients from turkey and bean to chunks of vegetables, to beef chunks. Both Jake and I voted for the green turkey chili as being the best. The red chilis have a much drier, and spicier, taste, being made from dried red chili powder. Jake and I totally disagreed on which ones we liked in this category. I really only liked one of them, but by then my mouth was burning, so that may have been a factor!
After the chili contest we watched the animal agility contest. This was really entertaining! The first category were large dogs and they were supposed to jump over a low rail, jump into and out of a tire placed flat on the ground, and then weave around a few cones. Most owners basically coaxed or dragged their dogs through this one using dog biscuits. Only one dog actually did everything and it wasn't even on a leash! It one, paws down. The second round was for small animals, not just dogs. In this round the animal was supposed to walk over a rail on the floor, go through a little tunnel, sit in a tire, and then go up and over a children's slide. Participants included several small dogs, 2 chickens, a ferret and rabbit (see photos). Most had to be carried through the course and it was great fun seeing kids attempt to get their animal through the tunnel or into the tire. The slide as a finale got lots of laughs as well. Chickens tend to fly off when they are sent down a slide!
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