We went to the
Fullerton Parade on June 30 this year. It had a lot of older style things
compared to Edgeley.
I thought this
was cool, they hooked them together for what looked to be for a lack of
drivers.
An old steam
engine
James Valley Grain, Oakes, ND.
This is suppose
to look like the LaMoure gas station and it does!
D&L Salvage;
Disc, tractor, lawnmower, tires and junk all piled on there and the kids, too
:-) Comical, he's sitting on the lawnmower.
What's the
trick? I got the real and the model in the picture.
The lady and her
baby here are wearing the clothes her great-grandmother made for herself and
her little girl back in 1896. Awesome! Now she and her little girl are wearing
them.
A model of the
elevator at Oakes. I have been through that elevator in Oakes and it does look
the same.
Here are the
Cox's tractor's that were driven through the parade.
Brandon, driving
his Grandpa's 1947 M. Hey Brandon, I'm glad you got to drive through the parade
since you didn't get to in Edgeley :-\ That bothered me and I'm sure it did
you, too.
I got three pics
this time, too, but I'll let it go with two this time! Haha, you know why...:)
I used the third picture space up with one up just a few pictures. (I wrote it that
way because I didn't care if anyone understood it or not, haha!)
Tipical dump?!
His sign says, 'Times are tough in America,' I thought that was funny. I don't
even know what it was suppose to be advertizing but it sure looked comical!
Here comes the Wagon Train with flags flying
that had traveled from Jamestown and made the trip into 78 miles following the
valley. They started on Monday so it only took them 5 days.
The lady in the
brown walking, walked the whole 78 miles. Awesome!
The work and
effort put into it was more than wonderful. It felt like a step back in time to
see all the covered wagons and dresses. I loved it! There seemed to be about as
many walkers as riders that took part in the wagon train. Not all of them
walked the whole way, I'm sure but there were a lot through the parade.
There were a lot
of riders as well. That was about the most horses I remember seeing in a
parade.
Soon as the
parade was over we went out to where all the horses were. My sister wanted to
see just really how big they were. We saw an older man unharnessing his two
Percheon mares, so we walked up to them. Me being only 5 foot 2, they aren't
really very tall, but have just huge bones. Each hoof seemed about 8 inches
across and their heads about a third again the size of a regular horse head. I
walked up to pet them on the face and they were really gentle, they seemed to
like it. The look in their eyes was a look of kindness even though they are big
enough to flatten your foot with one wrong move especially when I'm only 127
pounds, I guess I'm not ready for that just yet. But, I fell in love with them;
for some reason I have always liked big horses and black is my favorite plain
color. Someday I would be thrilled to own either a Percheon or a Freisan. They
are beautiful. By the way, that's me in the picture with one of his mares to
show their size.
Well...I
suppose, since I said what my favorite picture of the Edgeley parade was (back
when I posted it) I must confess I had a hard choice between the two, but I
chose the fifteenth picture.
