I'm listening to an owl.

I had a fabulous night tonight! After a good day at work, I went to the fair in town.

Yesterday we did a live broadcast of the parade, complete with two local announcers. They were hilarious and the parade was great. It was big, had lots of fun people, and the candy being tossed was plentiful. We had one scare when our Tricaster (the computer controlling and recording the broadcast) froze up on us for no reason. Scott was Directing at that point and, while he dealt with the problem, I grabbed the personal camera of one of our volunteers and shot the footage we were missing. I was pretty tired and hungry once we were all done cleaning up but the perk was that I received two free tickets to the fair.

Today I called up one of my friends who lives in town and invited her to come with me. She and I, and her daughter, walked down her street and caught the free shuttle to the fair which was about a mile away. We saw the sights and Laura introduced me to Funnel Cakes. YUMMY! We took our Funnel Cake to the Demolition Derby. I had never been to one but had been hearing about it from people all week. It was interesting. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to laugh or cry as I started watching. It felt weird. On the one hand, I just didn't get the attraction, on the other hand I wanted more sound effects and harder impacts than we were getting. Weird. Anyway, Laura's husband met up with us around 9PM. We walked off our food and went back for seconds (and thirds!). Thank goodness we walked home from the fair. I have over 14,000 steps on my pedometer today and I think that's actually low because my jacket was tied around my waist (that tends to impede it).

I got home about 20 minutes ago and am going to bed shortly. As I began to type this post I heard an owl hooting outside. I love living here! One sad note, Allegra (one of the dogs) just came out to the kitchen to greet me and she's not feeling well. She's going to the vet today because her legs are collapsing under her intermittently. Susan and I are both worried about her but she seems in good spirits. It's just very hard to watch her go through this. Please send your good thoughts her way and our way too. Thanks!