If you haven’t yet gone over to the Park County Fairgrounds, why not?

We’re in the midst of the county fair here in Powell and I dare you to name something dripping with more good, old Americana than this county fair.

Where else and at what other time of the year — except another county fair or the state fair — can you walk around with a lemonade as big as your head and a funnel cake so dusted with powdered sugar you can hardly see what’s underneath?

You could probably prove me wrong, but why? Just go to the fair and soak it in.

If you’re reading this Thursday afternoon you’ve likely still got time to get tickets for the concert tonight featuring a couple of Wyoming country singers.

If you picked up our Tuesday edition, you’ve got a massive fair preview section to refer to as well.

There’s also still time to watch the Figure 8 race Friday night and the classic demolition derby Saturday.

Beyond that, there’s so much more to see. My family and I love to just walk through the show barns, especially the chickens. That way we can see what our chickens would look like if we decided to grab them out of the dirt they’re probably dust bathing in at the time and cleaned them up.

We like to see animals that our friends are showing as well, and possibly once again talk about how we want to get goats, only we don’t have the time to take care of them.

Time. That’s what I’m always most impressed about at the fair, seeing all of the time the kids have put into their animals pay off. There are showing events all day Thursday and Friday, capped off by the livestock sale Saturday.

The carnival is great, the food’s great, the free acts and grandstand events are fun to attend, but in my mind nothing beats the showings. You get to see kids who have worked hard show off their knowledge, lead animals sometimes bigger than themselves around the grass, and, for some, experience the reward of ribbons and applause.

Does it get better than that?