We piled in the car to go to Moonshine for lunch. On the way, we stopped in at the hardware store. Steve asked me to show him the grain elevator that I had shot the day before and we went for a little walk. Then he pulled out a little box and proposed. So newly…
Day Three: Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Rachael and I were up before most of the people in the house so we went to Hidalgo and did some photographing of the grain elevator (in service into the 1980s) and the abandoned store across the street. It looks like the merchandise is just sitting there, from the late 1950s. We really wanted to…
Day Two: Monday, August 24, 2009
Today was the first real day of the fair. We tried to get there early enough to see the llama show but the fair book printed the schedule incorrectly. So we took a few minutes to check out the various barns. The cow just licked Duncan. All the thoroughbred races were combined into one day…
Day Three: Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Wednesday morning we went into Hidalgo to hang out at my uncle’s hardware store for a little while. Appropriately enough, it’s called Bob’s Hardware and is the only business in the town of 150. In the back he has a fix-it shop with items left from the previous shop owners and probably date back to…
Day Two: Tuesday, August 19, 2008
We got a bit of a late start Tuesday morning, which was further delayed by a genius branch of the county DOT. They were oiling the roads (the country version of asphalting which involved pouring a hot layer of oil on the roads and then pouring fine chipped gravel over it). After the late start…