In no particular order:
- Friday was the 30th anniversary of the hottest day ever of the Iowa State Fair — August 16, 1983, which was Older Iowans Day that year. I was there.
- However, the National Weather Service was not there this year. Was its display “sequestered”?
- This time around, you could not have asked for better weather during the entire fair, so these attendance numbers are a bit stunning. I blame early school.
- It’s been five years since this happened, which I also witnessed.
- The sun shining through the west Agriculture Building skylight about 6:30 PM puts the Butter Cow in a whole new light, literally.
- One bit of fair tradition gone this year, maybe last year too: Daily markets are no longer written up outside the WHO Crystal Studio.
- Has the Swine Barn become the Goat Barn, or is it just my timing?
- Ads on the Sky Glider chairs? Bad form.
- There was a Lincoln Highway photo category and I missed it. *kicks self*
- It is (still) unnatural and wrong to see Halloween candy out at the grocery store while the fair is going on.
- Koltyn?!?!?!
- I had two items on this list (cheese curds and the double bacon corn dog), and partially qualify for three more: I had the sit-down pork chop instead of the stick, and had a funnel cake and hot beef sundae earlier this summer.
- If I had known the double bacon corn dog was served with syrup, I would’ve had it for breakfast instead.
- Re: the above two bullet points:
