It seems like forever and a day since I have had a chance to update my blog! Life got pretty hectic here this summer! Bart's brother and his family came up to Ohio for 2 weeks and I had gone down and gotten their daughter 2 weeks prior to that! We went to Reading, PA for my husband's family reunion. I chaperoned band camp for my daughter's high school. We have been frantically trying to get ready for our county fair! Life has just been cRaZy!!
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The Ashtabula County Fair starts next Tuesday, August 11 in Jefferson, Ohio! As 4-H Advisors, we have so much to do to get all the members ready as well as our own kids!! We have over 60 members in our 4-H Club. We have a wide range of projects. Some kids take market animals, some are general projects and some are just cloverbuds! As far as animals, we will have market steers, dairy beef feeders, dairy cows, dairy heifers, pigs, rabbits, goats, lambs, ducks and chickens representing our club this year!!
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Fair week gets hectic! But thank goodness we have a great group of parents! They provide potluck lunches all week! That way you do not have to eat fair food 24/7! Not that fair food isn't good....I crave my fair share of fair food....(no pun intended!!) Oh yum....the sausage sandwiches, fries, cheese on a stick, cotton candy, french waffles....the list goes on and on....
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We bring our camper in on Saturday, our animals on Sunday and then we stay until the following Sunday! We live there 24/7 for 1 week. This year will be great with our new camper! We will have lots more room inside if it rains...which would not surprise me! The weather has been soooo crappy here this year! Rain....more rain....and more rain!! And it would not be fair week with out rain! Which reminds me of a funny story that happened one year at fair with my friend Wendy! I'll have to tell you all about it sometime! Everytime I think of rain at the fair, I picture my friend Wendy telling me, "It's not that deep....come on Kel" She was on one side of huge puddle under the cover of a barn...I was on the other side...in another barn. I had crocs on and she talked me into coming across....ANKLE DEEP I tell ya!!! But the funniest was when I was half way across, she made a point to tell me HOW MUCH ANIMAL MANURE WAS IN THAT PUDDLE--GROSS!!! We both laughed so hard! And still to this day, whenever I picture her on the other side of that puddle, I laugh out loud!!
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BE SURE TO STOP BY OUR MARKET ANIMAL SALE ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 at 3pm
at the Ashtabula County Fairgrounds in Jefferson!
Fill your freezer and support a 4-H member at the same time!!!
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Here is Tori getting ready to give her steer a bath!
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This is Cody and his dairy beef feeder!
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Tori working on setting up her steer
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Cody working with his dairy beef feeder!
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