Of perhaps special interest this year:

Because of flooding at the facility in early June, the fairground crew has requested that people avoid arriving before 23 August.

Don Shorock has posted some pictures from just before the river crested, for the curious. There's a link right at the top of the Pickers' Paradise page for the curious, or go direct to:
Rainy June Weather…

Click the 2007 link for this year, (be sure to scroll down to the pictures) or –

compare the 2005 flood when it was about the same (step through the 3 days of pictures).

Although Don "misdated" some of this year's pictures, making it a little ambiguous, my reading of the times given (corrected) versus the hydrological data from the National Weather Service indicates the water may have risen additionally as much as about 4 feet after the pictures were taken.

The county fair at the same fairgrounds should be starting about now. We drove through the pecan grove to take a look around last week, and although some of it is still a bit damp it should be in good enough shape by the time we all get there.

Brag about it here, if you can make it. Whine if you can't.

Let people know who to look for or make plans to meet.

Stop by if you get there. Ask anybody in the Pecan grove where "Thumper" is – we're pretty notorious.
(If I live through the hassle of getting everything loaded, and we actually get there.)

John