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Nova Sure Did Give Us A Lift

August 21, 2011

As miserable as his friend AJ was last night, Ivan Nova was spectacular today. It’s hard to believe sometimes that he’s in his first full rookie season – and that he was sent down to the minors just a couple of months ago. Great job.

A-Rod’s bat didn’t show up in his first game back with the team, but Granderson’s inside-the-parker was fun to watch and Tex’s old fashioned, back-to-back homer was sweet too. I love that the Yanks took three out of four in this series.

I’ve got to make this quick as we’re getting deluged by rain/thunder and lightning right now (what’s with this weather, you easterners?) and I’ll probably lose power, but I hope everybody will head over to the Mainly Jane blog for a recap of my day at the local county fair. You’ll find a sheep Yankee fan (seriously) and pig racing AND a Yankees bra with Michael wearing it. How can anybody resist that?

Btw, I read that AJ shaved his head? Oh, my.

Filed Under: Confessions of a She-Fan Tagged With: Bridgewater County Fair, Curtis Granderson, Ivan Nova, Mark Teixeira, Twins, Yankees

Sheep, Pigs And A Psychic

August 21, 2011

Today was the annual Bridgewater County Fair.

I know. Not my usual entertainment of choice, but it was right around the corner from the house where we’re staying here in Connecticut, so it seemed worth checking out. Plus, Michael and I were accompanied by our twitter pal, @Gweeds, and she made it even more fun.

First up was a visit with the sheep. Baaaaaah.

They were warming up for their big event: the sheep herding show.

They got chased by a Border Collie and everybody clapped.

Then we moved on to the pigs. Apparently, “hot dog pig races” are a big deal around these parts.

What are hot dog pig races, you ask? They’re little contests where pigs with names like “Jerry Swinefeld” and “Brad Barbecue Pitt” and “Kevin Bacon” run around a track.

And a county fair wouldn’t be complete without a reading by a psychic, who sits at a booth waiting for suckers like me.

The best part was when @Gweeds, who was dressed in Yankees gear as were Michael and I, handed me a Yankees shopping bag with a special gift inside. She’d made it herself. It was a Yankees “rally bra,” and Michael gave it an up close look.

The beard and the bra really go together, don’t they?

The only disappointment was that we couldn’t find the pie-eating contest or even any pies. What’s a country fair without pie???????????

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Mainly Jane, Sports Tagged With: Border Collie sheep herding, Bridgewater, Bridgewater County Fair, CT, hot dog pig races, psychics, Yankees

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Jane Heller is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Her fourteen breezy, witty novels of romantic comedy and suspense are now entertaining millions of readers around the world, along with her two books of nonfiction.

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