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9-11

Never forget!!

God bless all of our police officers, firefighters, troops and military serving this great country.

Kris

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We are ready. The camper is in at the fairgrounds, the tack boxes are packed, groceries are in the back of my Durango for me to take into the camper. The fan cage is at the fair grounds, thanks to a 8:00 run in there last night. Oinky Doinky has had one last bath. I’ll wash Oreo, Alli and Daisy on Friday for Jessie while she is at school. I'm working until noon and then I am out of here.

My tomato sauce is canned, the beets are canned, the corn is froze. I got my quilts into the fair on time (with 10 min. to spare actually), and I have the cookies baked for 4-H snack for Thursday night (cut out cookies in the shape of various animals). Dinner for tonight is ready (sloppy joes and pasta salad). My baking entries in the fair are sort of made – the cake is baked, the bread is baked, I’ll do the cinnamon rolls tonight when we get home from decorating and taking the animals in.

I have one of my current knitting projects in a bag ready to toss in the camper – just in case I need some ME time while at the fair. Hopefully Dawn will like the color.


As you can see - I will be able to upload pictures of the fair from my phone.


If you are around the Wayne Co. Fair – look us up and help cheer her on. Jessie shows Saturday (steer show), Monday (pig showmanship), and Tuesday (market hog, beef breeding and feeder calf). Oh – and both kids will be doing the kiddie tractor pull Sunday afternoon. We’ll be in one of the barns most of the time.

Here's to a relaxing fair:)
Kris

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Apparently oinky doinky is to big and lazy to stand up to eat, so we must lay down to eat:)

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Holey Moley

I'm tired.



This weekend I painted the fan stands, fan cages, and the BOTTOMS of the tack boxes (how in the world did I neglect to paint the bottoms until after I had packed them all up???)

Animals are walking.



Animals are washed and clipped. Of course, being a PIG and COWS, they will need more baths this week.





The redheaded step child is walking better. Here's to hoping she is good and tired by next Tuesday when she has to show so her attitude doesn't shine through.......



I canned 20 pints of tomatoe sauce and froze 10 dozen ears of sweet corn. On the list for tonight? Canning the 14 pints of beets that are all ready to go, they just need run through the pressure canner.



The yard is mowed, sort of (still have to do down by the road). The camper is packed. Still have to buy food but I'll wait until closer to the weekend.



And we went last night and brought Jessie's heifer and one of her steers for next year. This is the heifer, I don't have a picture of the steer but we are wondering what the heck we were thinking - he looks just like her only solid white! There is a steer/heifer show in Columbus, Ohio over Jessie's birthday - she has already let it be known that either we take these two calves to the show, or she is going back to PA with Todd for doe season. Todd has already decided we are going to the steer show.....




My mom says this is double payback time for all the years I showed a white horse. We'll be buying stock in blueing and woolite.

Redheaded Feeder Calf

She is stubborn. But oh so nice.



And she gave up walking about a week ago. Stubborn.




So we borrowed a cart, hooked it to a tractor and away we went.

What do you know.....no pulling, no fighting, no jumping. Jessie untied her when we were done and walked her into the barn. Calm as could be. Much nicer to her than us tugging on her and fighting her (or her managing to pull away from us and running and getting hurt). We thought about using the hitch on the truck like others do, but you can't see them behind you and the tractor goes slower.




Guess we are now ready for fair with everyone walking nicely. I see one of these carts in our future......


Have a great Labor Day everyone!!! We will be knee deep in clipping cattle, clipping the pig and bidding on a replacement heifer for one of the heifers we brought last year, who is unbreedable:)

It's my parents anniversary tomorrow - so Mom and Dad - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Kris

Grilling

For a brief (very brief) moment I thought I would have to call 911. Then thought to get a pitcher of water to dump on it as the flames were up OVER the lid of the grill.

It would not look to well for a volunteer firefighter's wife to be calling 911 for a house fire, now would it?

But I saved the steaks. And did not burn the blueberry peach cobbler and the brownies that were in the oven. Which are now gone. I had to have 2 servings of each to calm my nerves, right?