The week of the fourth we attended the Laclede County Fair on three different nights. The fair is always an interesting place to visit. I went into the Mills center to see the displays and entries for judging. It is always nice to see the amount of time and effort children and people spend in making different items. It is also interesting to see the different ways to make use of some items. The quilts were beautiful this year.
Then we went to the cattle-judging event. One boy talks to his steer to keep it quiet and they all scratch the belly of the animals.
On another night the truck and tractor pull is a big event. Some small and some huge tractors pull the weight wagon to see who can pull the most the farthest.
And one new event this year was a cannonlady being shot out of a cannon mounted on a truck. This was fun and interesting to watch. The woman is Jennifer, she is 34 years old and has been doing this since she was 14. She has been flying for 19 years.
Her father holds the Guinness World record for distance in the same event. Her father built the cannon for her and one for her sister. The cannon is 28 feet long and she flies about 45 feet high and about 65 feet out into a net.
She moved here from Salem Oregon to be more centrally located to travel the US to do her shows.
It was nice to watch but I don’t think I would like to even try it. The noise of the cannon is loud. Here are some pictures of her and the truck and net.
the truck
Jennifer going to get inside the cannon.
after the flight.
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