William really liked the animals, especially the chickens and other poultry. I held him up so that he could see some baby chicks that they had in one of the cages.
One of our favorite things at the fair is the giant butter sculpture. We didn't realize it before (mostly because we weren't paying attention) that Paul's cousin Matt is one of the sculptors who make these butter creations each year. The only reason that we know now is because we caught it on a local news story one morning.
Here is this years 700+ pound sculpture of two cows and a goat eating ice cream.
These cows are as big as a full grown man!
This was the information card that they had out next to the sculpture. It has a picture of Matt and the other sculpture who worked on the display.
On Sunday Will and I spent the day at Grandma and Grandpa Noble's house. They had been out of town for over a week touring the west coast. Grandma and I took Will to play at the park for a bit but it was really hot and windy so we cut that a bit short.
Late in the afternoon we noticed that the foothills west of their house seemed to be on fire. As the day went on the cloud of smoke kept getting bigger and bigger. After dark you could see that the entire mountain was ablaze. It was starting to get really low and looked as if it was going to start overtaking the town of Herriman, which is just on the other side of the highway from Mom and Dad's house. We stood out on the back porch and watched the flames spread from hill to hill. The fire was so big that we could actually see the flames without using binoculars.
When the news came on we learned that the fire had been sparked by a machine gun training exercise at a nearby military firing range. Since the wind was blowing so hard (up to 50 miles per hour at times) they were unable to put it out and it had spread off of the training grounds and into the nearby scrub brush.
I didn't have a good angle to get pictures with my camera so I've posted some of the shots from the local news website.
This was the view from across the valley just before sunset.
This one must have been taken from somewhere just west of Mom and Dad's house because this is pretty much what we saw.
This was the view from across the valley just before sunset.
This one must have been taken from somewhere just west of Mom and Dad's house because this is pretty much what we saw.
These are some of the local residents who were evacuated from their homes.
The news reports this morning said that in all more than 1200 homes were evacuated and at least 4 large homes have burned. They still do not have even a percentage of it contained, but at least the winds have died down this morning.
The only good thing is that no one has been injured thus far.
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