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Cindy Fuller > wrote:

> So Barb, when do you find out how you did? With luck, the
> old-lady-home-economics teachers who stiffed you last year won't be
> judging this year.
>
> Cindy

Au contraire -- I was not stiffed last year -- I knocked 'em dead and
came away with 8 'special' awards above and beyond the regular Fair
prizes. Tres cool. I luvved the retired home ecs. Nice women. I've
figured out who a couple of the judges are, generally speaking, but I
don't know how they operate or who judges what. Part of the mystery.
"-) The Great Minnesota Get-Together opens on Thursday, August 25.
I'll find out that morning. Right now, IBePooped. Just finished a
batch of Ginger Peachy Jam and somewhere during the day it got blinkin'
hot! Jeez. Don't call the vice squad - I don't have many threads on!
--
-Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> 8/3/05 New York-Vermont tab (a
couple pictures added to the 7/29 note on 8/5)