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Bookhenge: The magic of the State Fair . . .
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Bookhenge: The rides . . .
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Bookhenge: The foods . . .
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Bookhenge: Yum!!!
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Bookhenge: The food competitions . . .
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Bookhenge: Ahhh and the Horticultural Competitions . . .
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Bookhenge: Nice!
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Bookhenge: Just for the record, we have grown a tomato over two lbs. in our garden. But not in October . . .
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Bookhenge: Basket creations with beady eyes!
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Bookhenge: Hot, hot fish peppers!
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Bookhenge: Trombone squash contestant for Most Unusual Shaped Veggie . . .
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Bookhenge: Hmmmm lots of personality potential . . .
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Bookhenge: Sweet!
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Bookhenge: Dig the size of those sweet potatoes . . .
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Bookhenge: Well, relatively speaking . . .
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Bookhenge: And the blooming mushrooms ;-)
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Bookhenge: But in the individual veggie and fruits category, uniformity is most respected.
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Bookhenge: Sameness get respect ... and ribbons
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Bookhenge: And the most unusual is sometimes honored -- Our Sesame Seed Plant won "Most Unusual Edible Plant."
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Bookhenge: That beautiful flower box of sage produced a blue-winner entry.
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Bookhenge: And we won a red ribbon for our most consistently blue-ribbon category, "Other Winter Squash."
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Bookhenge: Little shameless promotion ;-)
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Bookhenge: Blue ribbon for "Other Winter Squash" went to a Candy Roaster.
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Bookhenge: Popcorn popped up with a red ribbon!
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Bookhenge: Our Jerusalem artichokes . . . tiny and kinda dried up by all the dry heat.
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Bookhenge: Our prolific but rather small fruit from our Bitter Melon vine . . .
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Bookhenge: Yes, those are the cutest veggies in our garden -- cucamelons!!!
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Bookhenge: Bringing home our veggies and ribbons . . .
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Bookhenge: The Welcome Home party ;-)