How about having our own county fair?

LOL!! Good one!!

Maybe she "drew a blank". I hate when that happens

ROFL

*brain fart*...OPPPS...Jo

*wink*

But, but...it never used to do that! I know for a fact that I have meant to hit "Home" there below the "Send" button, without typing anything, but hit "Send" by mistake. Then I went back to see if there was a blank post, but there wasn't. Something's wrong.
And Jo and Susan, you two are so ornery, LOL!

So how are the fair plans coming, Terry?

Yes! Is it time to get categories and such figured out? In the tomato forum, the need for an "ugliest tomato" contest was mentioned recently... could this be a fair entry, or should we do it within the forum? (We should stipulate, ugliest tomato that you would/could still eat; half-rotten or worm-ridden tomatoes need not apply.)

We are looking at the photo contest "platform" to see if we can use it for the "County Fair." We hope to be able to open it up with categories in early August. Speaking of categories, while a lot of these are GREAT and fun ideas, we will have to keep the list of categories fairly short (and therefore broad). Otherwise, we could quickly wind up with dozens of categories and spread ourselves a little thin for this first virtual "fair."

So I'm thinking something like the following:

Livestock - prettiest/most handsome ;o)
Livestock - biggest
Poultry - prettiest/most handsome
Poultry - biggest
Fruit & Vegetables - biggest
Fruit & Vegetables - prettiest
Canned goods - best-looking or best recipe
Baked good - best looking or best recipe
Arts & Crafts
Flower arrangements

I realize it lumps a bunch of things together, but that's ten categories already. Are there any other obvious categories I've missed? I'm thinking we should limit it to no more than 12-14 categories total.

I think you're right about limiting categories. We'll need some guidelines with the categories... For something like "biggest fruit/veggie" I guess we can vote for the one we like best, so we can pick the biggest tomato as our favorite rather than the relatively much larger biggest pumpkin?

Like the photos, maybe it could be more of a "choose your favorite" with categories like "Big Livestock" and "Pretty Livestock" so nobody feels compelled to vote for the "biggest" bull rather than for a really large rooster. ?

Would my "Kissing Booth" come under Arts and Crafts...or maybe Fruits and veggies?? Jo

Jo

I'm first in line.

Paul

LOL, another ornery one!
I'm gonna have to start practicing with some funnel cake recipes.

Jo with your beauty you would fit with flower arrangements.

AWWW Bernie and Paul have made my day!! Jo

KY I love funnel cakes...make mine chocolate.

I am looking forward to trying out the recipes entered! So I can taste before I vote! This is going to be so much fun. Like a world wide County Fair. First ever!

Every fair has a different theme each year...what is going to be the theme?

Terry-my barn smells great and so does my livestock!

I like the smell of critters, as long as they've been kept in clean and healthy surroundings. At our county fair, there's always a mama pig and her piglets in the Petting Zoo area. Baby piggies are adorable, aren't they?

I think a catagory to add in Arts and Crafts would be wood-working

I think this year’s theme/guiding slogan ought to be something about bringing all the best things from the past and re-shaping them in a way that they fit well in the future, but I can’t come up with a simple “sound bite” that encompasses that idea. It seems right because that describes the plan. The old-fashion, traditional county fair or harvest festival that just happens to be taking place in the frontiers of cyber-space and can be attended by anyone in the world.
Something like, “The old made new.” But, someone who has more of a gift for words than I do could surely come up with a better way to say it.
Of course, in this case, the "Trash-to-Treasure" folks would definately need a category in Arts & Crafts. lol. (Jim)

Good theme idea!

Who has the perfect words???

DG County Fair

A Virtual Celebration of Harvest Traditions

... just playing with some words.. I'm sure somebody else can string a better phrase!

Tradition with a Twist?

Critter! perfect!

I like "twist" -- but what kind of twist? a "DG Twist?" a "Virtual Twist?"

Thanks, Grammy... but I think we'll come up with something better as we play with it... :-)

Maybe County Fair with a virtual Twist.

How about critterologist plus defoecat:

A Celebration of Harvest Traditions with a Virtual Twist

That's a good one Catherine!

The Pixel County Fair?

Let's use Dave's name somehow. Like A Celebration of Dave's Traditions.

We could do

Dave's Garden Pixel County Fair: A Celebration of Harvest Traditions with a Virtual Twist

It is a mouthful, but it sums it up nicely.

Welcome To Dave’s Virtual County Fair All Show No Smell !

Sarge

I kinda like "cyber twist" better.

I think the first part should be the main title and the second part a sub-title (I used to work for newspapers and had to write my own headlines).

I echo IO1 and woodspirit1