It feels so good to be home. The smell of the air is so different here in Illinois than it is in Florida. It's hot this time of year up here but it is a different hot: not the drippy sopping wet sweaty heat I am used to at home in the south.
It is also nice to be with my kidlets. They are all growing up so fast and becoming their own people. It is nice to see how they have grown and talk to them about their activities throughout the year and see the end results of their 4-H projects as they ready them for the fair this weekend.
I am looking forward to the fairs, it has been a long year for us and I am so ready for some fun. I can smell the cotton candy and kettle corn already! I love walking through the exhibit halls, seeing the projects all the young people brought in for judging. There is always so much creativity and innovation in their creations. I enjoy witnessing the ideas of the next generation of world leaders, inventors, businessmen and women, farmers, artists and more.
My favorite part is to walk through all the animal barns and see the happy healthy animals these 4-Her's and Junior exhibitors have raised. It makes my heart happy to know that they will be the next generation of farmers to feed our nation. This weekend I will take root in the beef barns, watching the cattle and kids and listening to their lively banter and witnessing their jovial antics. There is never a dull moment in the beef barn.
I am hoping to see some family, have some great ice cream at my favorite drive in, take a drive through my home county to drive by and revisit the pastures filled with gorgeous green grasses, endless cornfields, old rustic barns, quaint small towns, rivers both small and massive, big rolling hills and ancient limestone cuts that make this area so great to come home to.
Just breathing the air makes me nostalgic. It is so good to be able to "come home".
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