Results

Sorry, I forgot my camera so no pictures of the contest. I don't know how many teams either but there might have been more than the 16 jr. teams at the last contest. V was 8th in halter judging and 9th overall. The team place 2nd in halter, 4th in performance and 4th overall. I am counting this as a big success for the team. I'm thinking E must have marked a card wrong because from the placings she had in her notebook she was 1 point higher overall than V yet she didn't place overall.

Horse Judging

We have another horse judging contest on Saturday. This one should be larger than the last one. It's the Block and Bridle judging contest at Tech.

Class of Fresians at last contest.

Science Fair

E won 2nd place in the 5th grade science fair tonight. She got a $15 gift card to Walmart. The project was on which soil grew plants best; natural, baked for 30 min. or baked for 60 min. She did the project board by herself as evident by the UVA colors she picked. I just couldn't convince her otherwise.

Thunder

V worked with her show steer Thunder this weekend. He is much crazier than any of the others have been. It seems the more you work with him the worse he gets. We've heard about a product called Calf Calm that is suppose to have a mild seditive effect with no meat withdrawl. We are to the point of trying this and if it doesn't work we might not be able to show him. Does anyone want to buy some beef?

Flowers

This is one of my favorite parts of our yard. I love looking out at the red twig dogwood in the winter. I also like the daffodils blooming around my found scrap metal sculpture.

Rabbit

Well, we had to sell Rabbit the billy goat today. It is impossible to keep the billy seperate from the nannies, so to have any control over the breeding season, we can't keep the billy year round. Rabbit was a billy we raised from one of E's bottle raised babies, Tiger.I wasn't fast enough to capture Oreo's reaction to this inquisitive kid, but let me just say it reminds me of a joke about crossing a goat with a lion.(See Feb.8, 2008)

This little spotted one is one of the last ones born. I love her color pattern, it reminds me of an appaloosa.

HEN'S TEETH

Heifers in waiting.J is still feeding hay daily. The grass is starting to get a little greener but not growing yet. Hopefully, we'll have an early spring because "hay is scarce as hen's teeth" to quote J.