County Fair 2012

Our County fair was a week ago

It was about 107 degrees for 3 days of our fair

It actually cooled off to 85ish on Saturday evening

Then there was lightning

and Thunder

and eventually some of that wet stuff

RAIN

about a 1/2 inch to be exact

Not complaining but stating a fact

it hardly settled the dust

we'll take more

anytime

CB ended up the Grand Champion Intermediate Showman

I was a bit surprised

He did good...I thought he could have done better

sorry, just keeping it real here...

but apparently the judge thought it was good enough

I about fell over when he went over and handed CB the

GRAND Champ BUCKLE!

This is CB's lamb #39. See, our boys are past the point of naming their lambs

They are simply called a number. Their ear tag to be exact.

It's almost James Bond like.

Or not.

{smile}

ZB moved to Senior Showmanship this year.

It's a bit more competitive...to say the least.

He assured us he was ready.

He was.

But his flashy little ewe, #13 was not.

See how she is squatting in this pic?

NOT COOL

She literally just had a come-a-part as the judge put his hand on her

Not sure what her problem was.

Maybe the heat???

Who knows. Unfortunately that little incident cost him.

He never got a second look.

There is always next year right?

CB and #39

Rock stars in Showmanship!

Did I mention it was about 110 on Friday night?

ZB and #13 again.

This time, we're NOT in showmanship class

We are in the crossbred market class-lightweights

 

She was pretty enough to win her class!

(it really isn't a beauty contest)

 

She was good enough to be

Crossbred champ overall!

JB and I were shocked...we knew she wasn't very big

but our sheep kind of quit eating for the last month...

it's just been too hot..

We thought 2nd Blue would be ok

they never pick the lightweight lambs for champs

NOT! 

 Here is the judge telling ZB he needs to take her to the State Fair

We can't.  They had to be registered back in June.  Who knew.

ZB had both of his lambs in the Grand Champion drive.

Pretty cool year for us.

Considering we started out with 5 lambs

Ended up with 3

(death loss was high this year)

That were not as big as they should have been

Because they didn't want to eat

Because it was too hot

Because we are in a drought

Because....

Fair.

Glad to see it come, glad to see it go.

Hard to believe we are about to start another 4-H year

ZB's 9th...CB's 6th