YOU BETTER BELIEVE I PATTED THAT

Got a high-back-five from that

When my phone battery dies, when the sun burns out, I will be here, patting.

This chicken is having the worst hair day.

This chicken has sideburns.

Our poultry scientists were so busy asking whether we could, they never stopped to ask if we should.

I found it, you guys! I found the longest duck!

And now I found the teeniest rooster!

It’s rainining. Get out of the rain, ducks!

State Fair yarn bombers, please report to the Miracle of Birth barn. Nobody has this topiary’s back.

When you’re finished at the All You Can Drink Milk Booth, please report to me for some patting

Slightly-Less-Giant Duckling Slide

Would pat, but mama is giving me the stink eye.

Arrgh battery is down to 30 percent. How could I bring three portable chargers but only one puny cord?

Quick! Let’s look at fish!

Look at the Minnesotans looking at fish and let all your cares melt away.

Meditate with me.

Oooooope

Odds that I’ll end up entangled in my rain poncho like a sea turtle: excellent.

Quick check of the bean ballot at the DFL booth...

Ohhh Kirsten Gilibrand’s support at the Minnesota State Fair is...not robust.

It is dumping down rain and someone in Humana’s poncho marketing department is a genius

Will hard, cold rain stop our fun?

It will not.

EEEEEEEEE!

It is a great day to be manning the small absorbent towel booth at the Minnesota State Fair!

I just dropped $17 on a 1-foot phone cable. Pitter patter let’s get at ‘er!

It’s just you and me, crop art. Just you, me, and the thousands of people ahead of me in line.

Real-time crop art!

A magnificent crop of crop art this year!

Well done, 12-year-old who crafted Seed Drake!

MORE ART!

Thank you for your service, crop artists.

Minnesota invented a new apple and now it’s mine all mine!!

Graaargh, delicious!

Why settle for one butter cow when you can have plural butter princesses?

Buckle up and watch butter sculpture in motion!

I’m gonnna go pat some horsies

Not horsies

But not bad

How now, Swiss cow!

Awwwww...

This continues not to be the horse barn

“PAT ME!”

I hear you pig. I hear you.

Is there a word for a large number of Clydesdales? Like a school of fish or a murder of crows?

Because the horse barn is closed on account of Clydesdale.

A Budweiser of Clydesdales.

Let’s rehydrate at WCCO radio!

Heyyyy it’s the Secretary of State!

Heyyyy look who’s next door

TOO SOON

How am I supposed to choose? Is this how State Fair judges feel every day?

YOU ARE ALL GOOD TREES, YES YOU ARE

Still furious about Bachman’s misBunyaning. But that’s not important right now. What’s important is that I need to find the giant vegetables.

Aw yeah

Wait a minute...

But...

Not even a quick pat on this peck of peppers?

In awe of the size of the gourd

Rain stopped! Come celebrate with one of those Izzy’s waffle sundaes from Hamline!!!

Graaaargh, delicious!!!

Stopped by the Spam booth to see if they were selling the newfangled Pumpkin Spice Spam.

THEY ARE NOT

That’s a day at the fair for me!

My socks are soggy, but my heart is light!

The State Fair Express Bus is here for me

Why am I tired?

Oh.

Want to skip the walk tonight, pup?

No?

NOT. ONE. MORE. STEP.