Cat-astrophe

Well, we made the drive to Forest Park and to the cat show...

To say that the State Farmer's Market is a dismal, disgraceful facility would be an understatement. Offered the opportunity to stay there, the Joad family would have kept on driving. The state should be ashamed to own such squalor, much less to open it to the public. I ended up feeling sorry for the visitors and the cats for having to endure such conditions.

And the little bit of Forest Park we saw was scarcely better; it's hard to imagine this as it once was, a nicely maintained suburb on the way up.

There were some lovely cats to be seen, including a few Siberians and a virtual army of Bengals, along with the ubiquitous Maine coon cats that populate every cat show. Also saw a few very attractive Persians, but their ranks were surprisingly thin at this show. Virtually 15% of the cats there were Bengals, for some reason--and that's odd, considering the paucity of Bengals at the Gwinnett show last year.

However, if you hear that people are getting out of farming in Georgia, I suspect it's because they'd rather change vocations than possibly having to visit the State Farmer's Market sometime...