Last year I bought a brick for Bill for Christmas, not just any old brick this one is for the Vietnam Veteran Memorial and it will be located right inside the York Fairground gate on a small corner spot. We stopped over on Monday to see how far along they were because the dedication is October the 3rd. They have all the material there except the actual sculptured monument which will have all the names of the fallen from our surrounding area engraved on it. They did have the base for the monument, but that was it.

I saw the banded bricks with the names and rank and depending on how you served a certain color star engraved on the bricks. This has been a long time coming to honor these veterans which I wont get on my soap box about, but Bill was very touched that I had thought to do this for him. At any rate the Fair starts today and I was surprised more vendors weren’t here and setting up. There were only a few trucks there and not one ride was being assembled.

Our Fair lasts for 10 days, but there has been much grumbling the last few years about attendance being down and no one was making any money that many said they wouldn’t be back this year. I think the price to get in this year is 6 bucks, but they do have special days and tomorrow is free for Veterans, but we probably wont go till next week. I live like 3 blocks from the grounds and it use to be I could sit on my balcony and hear all of the musical acts, but they now have it muted.

The people that park people in their yards usually make out pretty good during those 10 days.I’m sure the workers will have a mess going if they’re planning on working during the Fair, but they need to get a move on because I’m anxious to see Bill’s brick and so is he. Well, have a great weekend and I hope the header I finally chose isn’t too much of a distraction, but it kind of reminded me of my life and the old thyme Mom and Pop stores from my youth which I loved and now they can’t afford to stay in business, too bad.

I just looked at the line up and saw David Cook from American Idol will be here August the 18th and I really liked the kid and wanted him to win, but I wont be going to see him. I  might hear him for free can’t afford 35 dollars, Kelly Clarkson opened our Fair last night, but I didn’t hear her of course I was taking a nap when she was there.