Life in the Land of Enchantment is … is … well enchanting. We’ve got the Zozobra, and UNM defeating Arizona in football, and the Balloon Fiesta coming up, and — of course, the New Mexico State Fair, the 70th edition of which began September 4th and runs through next Sunday.
NewMexiKen loves the fair and wrote about it here three years ago (with lots of photos). This year not so many photos, just three taken with my iPhone (click on each for a larger version).
| This is Primo (I think). I thought the longhorn steer was posing, but I was a little slow and I see now that what I thought was a grin might have been more of a grimace. Later this week Primo and some of the other longhorn steers (which can weigh 2,500 pounds) will actually be ridden. |  |
| Then I got to be a celebrity (I’ve already had more than my allotted 15 minutes, so I think this was extra celebrity time). At the Fair today they were constructing the world’s longest ristra. |  |
| Donna and I walked up just as they were finishing up and yours truly got to be the official very last person to add my three chiles (pictured here, only you can just see two) to the nearly 100 foot long ristra.
I was videotaped and interviewed by Channel 13 and everything — totally freezing and unable to say anything the least bit interesting or bright. |
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Though, when asked my name, I was coherent enough to say Ken. And when asked for my whole name, I said, proudly, “NewMexiKen.”
And when asked if I was having a good time at the fair I said, “It’s always a great day at the Fair.”
And it is!