the rice 2011 county fair had to be the hottest and most humid fair on record in all of it's 100 and some years that it has been around.
We brought animals in at 8:45 to try to avoid it getting any hotter while they had to be on the trailer. I got them washed, fed and settled in by 11. I had a beef and dairy interview to go to and then worked in the food stand for an hour. Beef weigh-in was at 4 and get this! my dairy steer weighed 1500 pounds!! and they claim that the scale was light! that's a big boy! he gained an average of 3.5 pounds a day since february til now. I tried to keep them cool by spraying them down and watering every hour.
Wednesday morning was the open class youth dairy show. I was 7th with my fall calf, 1st with my summer yearling and reserve champion overall cow. Pretty good for a show on such a hot day. Wednesday afternoon was the 4-H beef show, i did work up the courage to show another cow/calf pair only this time i took the cow. I made it out of the ring with no mishaps. The Purfeersts even asked me to show one of their cow/calf pairs with their nephew kyle, and it didn't even do anything wrong. I got 3rd out of 5 with my dairy steer.
Thursday morning was the 4-H dairy show. I got reserve champion showmanship and 1st in all my classes. A turn around from the day before though with my fall calf going from 7th to 1st and my cow didn't make it back for state fair line up. My summer jr. yearling was reserve champion yearling and 6th in state fair line up. I will be taking her to the state fair after some much needed weight loss.
Friday morning was the FFA beef show, very few people came because of the heat. I was even first with my dairy steer (out of 1) which never happens because the Otte's usually clean house there, but unfortunately they couldn't make it. Friday night I was graced with the presence of 2 of my people in the whole wide world. Annie and Devin! We watched Annie's show then were walking around the fair and all of a sudden Devin is freaking out about losing her phone. After looking we decide it's a lost cause and she'll jsut have to find a new phone to use. We go home facebook creep and we get a call from kailey who informs us that some people called her off of devin's phone and say that they have devin's phone. After much conversation about meeting at the zipper to get the phone of going to their house in burnsville we finally make a plan to get the phone. I got it saturday night after a little sketchy thing. We finally went to bed at 2 am. bad choice.
Saturday morning we got up at 5:30 to get to the fair to get chores done before working on the clover for the auction. I went to breakfast and the auction and nothing productive happened after that for the day besides a nice nap.
Sunday I did chores and visited with people, ate my last pork burger :( and sat around for the whole day basically.
While at the fair I met new people, learned more about old friends and attempted to learn how to judge general livestock. Now let me tell you, this was a whole completely different concept than dairy judging. Mark did an all right job explaining it in the beef cattle but the second derek started explaining sheep to me my brain was fried. We'll how I progress as the summer goes on.
That's basically all I have on the fair for this year. It was an awesome time and only 365 until next years (it's a leap year next year).
Hope everyone kept cool and is having a good summer!
Monday, July 25, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
it's here, it's here, it's here!
So in case you haven't guessed what I'm talking about yet it's the Rice County Fair!! Tomorrow begins general project judging and tuesday animals go in and the fun begins!
So in case anyone wanted to visit me here's my schedule:
Wednesday morning is the open class dairy show at 9.
Wednesday afternoon is 4-H beef show starting around 2 (this will be very interesting considering what happened last year and my steer is crazier than ever this year).
Thursday morning is the 4-H dairy show (let's hope I can get a state fair trip)
Friday morning is FFA beef show at 10. (i'll probably lose to the otte's anyways so that probably won't be worth watching)
Friday night I fully plan on watching the open class beef show with the one and only DEVIN COOPER!! :)
Saturday morning is the auction.
After that I am fully available. Until the ever embarrassing fashion revue. (I won't tell you when that is cause it's embarrassing and just plain awful).
Hope to see everyone there! Unless of course I die of heat exhausting. (this is actually a possibility if you know me at all.)
So in case anyone wanted to visit me here's my schedule:
Wednesday morning is the open class dairy show at 9.
Wednesday afternoon is 4-H beef show starting around 2 (this will be very interesting considering what happened last year and my steer is crazier than ever this year).
Thursday morning is the 4-H dairy show (let's hope I can get a state fair trip)
Friday morning is FFA beef show at 10. (i'll probably lose to the otte's anyways so that probably won't be worth watching)
Friday night I fully plan on watching the open class beef show with the one and only DEVIN COOPER!! :)
Saturday morning is the auction.
After that I am fully available. Until the ever embarrassing fashion revue. (I won't tell you when that is cause it's embarrassing and just plain awful).
Hope to see everyone there! Unless of course I die of heat exhausting. (this is actually a possibility if you know me at all.)
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Amazing Race - 4-H Camp Style
Where to begin? I haven't done this is probably over a month and that's only because I have been so busy with so many trips and such.
Let's start with the perfect way to begin summer. 4-H camp!
Now for those of you who aren't aware, i am completely obsessed with 4-H and 4-H camp. So of course this is the best possible way to get me into the 4-H mood for the 4-H season (summer).
After far too many trainings (like 4) we finally got to go to camp patterson in madison lake for 3 days. On Sunday night we got there had some bonding time and finally went to bed at a far too late of time. We got up at 8 and got ready for the day. When campers got there we played various games and what not to keep them occupied. There favorite part was probably swimming and canoeing which is fun for us counselors as well. Especially when I have to kayak a little girl back to shore in a very small kayak because she's afraid to swim back to shore. We learned about some cool exotic animals from a guest speaker, watched a movie, had a campfire and went to bed. The next day we did sessions where we actually have to teach the little tikes something. I was in charge of tye dye. It was a little interesting to say the least with 20 kids in a group and bottles full of stuff that can dye your clothes for good. We had camp counselor dress up where 10 little boys got to put some clothes on me and dress me up. I ended up with mud all over my face and being called a wicked fat housemaid. Then we watched another movie and had another campfire and learned how to zumba dance. I spent the movie trying to rinse out tie dyed pillow cases for kids to take home. After that adventure my hands ended up looking like the inside of an egg when you dye it at easter time and there's a crack in the shell. On Wednesday morning we cleaned cabins and sent the little tikes home.
Now after writing this I'm guessing that none of this sounds like as much fun as I think it is but you have to experience it to understand. My favorite part of course is the counselor meetings we have at night and have ice cream and pizza. And of course hanging out with my favorite counselors. :)
I'll update soon about my wonderful trip to guatemala.
Let's start with the perfect way to begin summer. 4-H camp!
Now for those of you who aren't aware, i am completely obsessed with 4-H and 4-H camp. So of course this is the best possible way to get me into the 4-H mood for the 4-H season (summer).
After far too many trainings (like 4) we finally got to go to camp patterson in madison lake for 3 days. On Sunday night we got there had some bonding time and finally went to bed at a far too late of time. We got up at 8 and got ready for the day. When campers got there we played various games and what not to keep them occupied. There favorite part was probably swimming and canoeing which is fun for us counselors as well. Especially when I have to kayak a little girl back to shore in a very small kayak because she's afraid to swim back to shore. We learned about some cool exotic animals from a guest speaker, watched a movie, had a campfire and went to bed. The next day we did sessions where we actually have to teach the little tikes something. I was in charge of tye dye. It was a little interesting to say the least with 20 kids in a group and bottles full of stuff that can dye your clothes for good. We had camp counselor dress up where 10 little boys got to put some clothes on me and dress me up. I ended up with mud all over my face and being called a wicked fat housemaid. Then we watched another movie and had another campfire and learned how to zumba dance. I spent the movie trying to rinse out tie dyed pillow cases for kids to take home. After that adventure my hands ended up looking like the inside of an egg when you dye it at easter time and there's a crack in the shell. On Wednesday morning we cleaned cabins and sent the little tikes home.
Now after writing this I'm guessing that none of this sounds like as much fun as I think it is but you have to experience it to understand. My favorite part of course is the counselor meetings we have at night and have ice cream and pizza. And of course hanging out with my favorite counselors. :)
I'll update soon about my wonderful trip to guatemala.
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