When I was a kid, the sign that the end of summer vacation was near was always when the Yolo County Fair began. We had been back to school shopping, the smell of harvested tomatoes and churned up dirt was in the air, and we were full of anticipation to see our friends at school. The fair would come to town, and we would beg our Mom to let us wear our new school clothes to the fair. She never did, which I now understand, but for whatever reason every year we would fight this battle. Then, within days of the carnival rides and food booths pulling out of town, we would lay in bed the night before the first day of school. Thinking about the upcoming year of learning, our teachers, the school events that would take place...but we would also be reminiscing about the summer vacation that had just passed.
The Yolo County Fair begins for another year this evening. Still a sign that the summer season is coming to a close. And what a fabulous summer it has been!!!
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