Being fed well

This is a picture of my uncle's feed this year. Thanks to the rain we had this summer, in some places the feed is ridiculously tall. We swath, then bale the feed to feed to the cattle throughout the winter months when grass is hard to come by.

Every time I drove by his feed field, I was amazed at how tall it was in spots. Because of how the water settles/runs off the field, it isn't this tall everywhere. Curiosity finally got the best of me yesterday and I had to stop and see how tall it was compared to me.

 

I'm probably about 5'8" and I'm sure my reach is well over six foot. My guess before I stopped was that it might be 10 feet tall. I don't think it is that tall, but it is probably some of the tallest feed I have ever seen in this area. Kinda crazy.

Fair moments

These are a couple of pics I took with my phone during the fair.

 These kids were pretty fun to work with. They volunteered to wear the GoPro cameras on rides during the carnival one night. The sisters that helped me were fighting over who got to wear the camera. The oldest one was walking around very loudly declaring, "I'm a guinea pig!" to anyone that even remotely looked her way. It was pretty entertaining.

 

The helmet had some issues, but it was pretty funny to watch the kids deal with it. The helmet was pretty big and the weight of the camera on the front caused it to constantly slide down over their eyes while wearing it. Annoying for them...entertaining for me ;-)

 

This is one that just makes me feel at home. A lot of kids, myself included, in 4-H in our county are able to pay their way through college from the proceeds they make at the fair livestock auction. I took it for granted and didn't realize that in most other counties the 4-Her's are only allowed to sell a certain number of their animals. 

Not in our county. If you have 6 or 8 animals you are allowed to sell all 6 or8. The other thing is that our livestock buyers are extremely generous. They go above and beyond the expected price, knowing full well that they are paying too much. My husband was baffled at how much money the kids were making. He would sit there and figure up the total on the calculator on his phone. My husband doesn't get excited about a whole lot, but it was fun to hear the excitement in his voice when he reported to me later how much kids were making. However, I think his favorite moment was when the auctioneer paid one tiny, little 4-Her twenty dollars to ride her pig in the show ring. She had been doing it in the pig pens all week and it was fun for her to demonstrate her skills to the buyers ;-) 

It's all just part of the fun and down-home touches that make me love our county fair so much.

Country Folk Humor

This is what our Sheriff has on the back of one of the pickups they drive around in our county. It makes me laugh every time.

In case you can't read it, here is what it says.
"Vehicle belonged to a drug dealer. He went to jail. Now we drive his pickup."