The County Fair and Pig Wrasseling...

Last night we went to yet another event that we had never seen before at the local County Fair. Its called Pig Wrasseling. The basic deal is that there is this fenced in pen, or 'ring', with a very wet mud filled bottom. The contestants consist of 4 person teams that are grouped by age and/or sex - ranging from the 3 to 6 age group, to adult females or males, and everything in between. They have these trailers full of pigs which are sized to fit the contestants and are oiled down prior to the event. The pigs are then placed in the pen along with a plastic barrel. The contestants are given a starting line, depending on their size. Below you can see the basic setup...



Then, it all starts. The contestants must jump into the pen, confine and grab the pig, and lift up and put the pig into the barrel, ham side down. The events are timed and the the teams that get the pigs in the barrels the quickest win 'fabulous' prizes. Its hard to 'grasp' the excitement in still pictures, but the videos are too large to email, so hopefully the below pictures will give you an idea of how it went...





We didn't stay for the whole thing, but the top time for the adult women was 10.79 seconds - that's really slinging Ho Pork...

Another pretty funny thing at the fair was in the Commercial Products Building. There was this booth that was selling hearing aids. I walked past, and the girl sitting in the booth asked me "If I wanted any information or had any questions?". I walked over and said "What?". She again asked me the question and I looked at her and said "What?". After about three trips around that block, some of the local vendors were laughing and she finally figured it out and asked me, "Your kidding right?". I again said "What?" and started snickering. She has a lot to learn about hearing aid booths...

I got a 10' Sturgeon rod and am ready for Grandson Oliver's trip here this Saturday. I would have gotten a larger one, but that was the largest one that would fit in the Jeep sideways. That's how we analyze needs here in DaHo...