Candied Apples and Merry-Go-Rounds

The familiar smell overwhelmed me as I opened my car door - a mixture of freshly cut hay fields, boiled peanuts, sausage dogs, and livestock. Those powerful smells immediately took me back to my childhood and those cool fall nights that my family spent at the Covington County Fair. What special memories I have of those evenings, specifically a longstanding tradition with my dad of eating a candied apple each year! (I'll be enjoying mine tonight as soon as I post this blog!)

Tonight Mark and I took Turner to the Lee County Fair and we had a marvelous time! Turner is still too young to really enjoy it, but she loved the lights (not so much love for the goats being judged in the livestock pen) and actually rode a merry-go-round for the first time in her life! (She rode twice - once with each of us!) While I did learn that the fair doesn't produce exactly the same thrill in adulthood as it did in childhood, I was humbled and almost giddy to be able to share a treasured childhood tradition with my daughter and husband.