Here in the cave of wonder, No. 92

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I will not be online for the rest of the day, because I will be in West Springfield with derspatchel, rushthatspeaks, and gaudior at the Eastern States Exposition, otherwise known as the Big E. I've never been; I haven't even been to a state fair in years. I have hopes of it being epic. I still plan to sleep in the car.

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I hope it's a wonderful epic time for all of ye!

I hope you can get some sleep in the car.

Will be curious to hear if there's indeed a butter cow.

ETA: Lucky you! It looks as if the draught horse show was going on today.

I was feeling nostalgic, and wondered what was happening on the horse show front, so I looked at the website. At the Ohio State Fair the draught horse events always used to be right after ours, so they'd be bringing them in over the last day or so that we were there. I can't help but call to mind the time my then-girlfriend and I had a very funny conversation with somebody who was bringing a Belgian into the washrack as we were leaving and who complimented us on our "really nice-looking yearling" (a fourteen year old Throughbred/mutt mare). Strange to think how long it's been since that day.

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I hope you can get some sleep in the car.

Not on the way down. We were too busy talking. Everyone who wasn't gaudior (who was driving) crashed on the way back. I woke up with corduroy face.

I was feeling nostalgic, and wondered what was happening on the horse show front, so I looked at the website.

We didn't see any of the horse events; we saw a dog agility show and, in the afternoon, Clydesdales pulling the Budweiser wagon. I'm not sure if the fire engine team were Clydesdales or Percherons.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

we saw a dog agility show

Wonderful. I've never seen one of those in person. I'd like to.

I'm not sure if the fire engine team were Clydesdales or Percherons.

Both lovely breeds, any road, them. Just about the most beautiful horse I've ever seen was a Percheron-Thoroughbred--massive dappled grey beast, seventeen or eighteen hands.

Do you recollect if there was feathering (Hobbit-like luxuriance of hair round the fetlocks (a toe joint rather than an ankle, but it does more or less the job of an ankle) and lower legs) on them? I'm thinking Percherons aren't meant to have that, although it's late enough, not to mention I've never really worked with fullblood draught horses, so I could well be altogether wrong about it.