Oh, the Joys of Small Town Livin'

One of my favorite things about living near a small town happens twice a year here. (The third thing is the 4th of July fireworks. See my pix on this page from it). The Main Street parades. Uniquely small town, and getting harder to find. I had to take pix of the county fair to share this year.

The royalty (in a pickup, of course!)

Tractors of all sizes













Horses


















Politicians (not worth wasting a picture on)




Shriners in their ridiculous cars

This year we even had bagpipers out of Canada



A couple of floats





Where else is it okay to throw candy on the street at kids- and have kids collect it with their parent’s encouragement??!! We call Colville our favorite C+ town (you’d have to see the hill overlooking the town to get that reference. On parade days, I’d give it a B.

Now here is what really cracks us up about our town float. There is a new slogan, ‘Discover our Good Nature’ for Colville. There are banners hung on the streets with the slogan and symbols for the seasons (snowflake, sun, leaf, and a flower). So when we first saw this float, there were 3 girls on it. One dressed for winter, one for fall, and one for summer. What happened to the fourth season? Was she too expensive? Did she go missing? Remember the first parade Santa in the Miracle on 34th St.? This now has appeared twice in parades, both times with only 3 seasons. We think there should even be a 5th season around here- mud season.

There also appears to be a volcano in the back of the float. Maybe it erupted on Spring? Personally, I have never seen any volcanoes in the area. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.

This mystery is part of the reason for Colville’s overall grade of C+.