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Cows, quilts and bearded ladies

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By Donna Littlejohn on August 24, 2008 4:55 PM | | Comments (0) |

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It's county fair time across America, an opportunity to celebrate everything from home-grown recipes to quilts to, of course, cows. 

My friends the Angells (Caleb is shown above) of Bentley Farm had a very good year at the Dutchess County Fair in New York's Hudson Valley. Bentley's Vanilla took a junior champion prize in the livestock judging, just one of the awards they received.

And I see the Clay County Fair in northwest Iowa ("The World's Greatest County Fair," the web site says), is coming up in early September. The fair was a much-anticipated event for my parents who both grew up in that part of the midwest. After hearing about the Clay County Fair for years, I finally saw it first-hand some years ago on the last visit out to Iowa my mom and I made together.

There's the usual county fair lineup in Iowa for 2008: livestock and 4H, a rooster crowing contest, Dallas the Fire Guy ("providing clean, family oriented entertainment throughout the USA for over 20 years"), a wild-west doggie show (all the dogs were rescued from shelters),  --- and even a dog obedience and agility competition.

The bearded lady seems to have disappeared from the lineup since I was there. But that's probably a good thing. 


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Daily Breeze reporter Donna Littlejohn has shared her homes with a succession of wonderful, funny, and occasionally difficult canines -- Muffin, Fritz, Ellie, Mercy, Pilgrim and now Cowboy, an Australian shepherd-border collie, and Tess, a border collie. From strong-willed terriers to weirdly obsessed Australian shepherds, they've invaded her world with boundless energy, wet noses, muddy paws and soggy tennis balls. But they've really brought so much more than that -- like laughter and joy, some unexpected life lessons, and more than a few tears along the way.

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Josh Grossberg grew up with the usual array of animals: goldfish, dogs, hamsters, parakeets and turtles. He now owns the loudest dog in the South Bay(Video: Rocket the Dog) and is the least popular person on his block. He spends his free time in dog parks, pet shops and always has an extra plastic bag in his pocket just in case. He also has a cat.

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