Wayne County Fair

This year’s fair, due to COVID-19, was just a junior fair which is really the purpose of the fair in a lot of ways.  We wore masks when we were near people, but it was a pretty quiet place in the 4-H and school buildings.  The kids still had their artwork displayed.  Ellie had a book she wrote.  Madison had a mask and a action clay figure.

    

Jeremy found his friend, Bob Ross, at the fair!

Madison did scrapbooking for 4-H this year.  I think she enjoyed this more than the cake decorating, or at least went about it with less resistance.  She decided to do a nature scrapbook.  So, we went out a couple times and she took pictures of flowers, plants, and trees at different places.  We printed all 125 of these pictures!  From there, she grouped them by color and then started in on her scrapbook.  I think she did a great job trying to use some different techniques that she learned in her book.  For judging, she had to make a Flipgrid video to submit.  While in some ways this was less stressful, she also wasn’t exactly sure she covered what the judge would expect her to know/share.  She had great comments back from the judge though and got an outstanding on her project.

    

Ellie submitted a drawing of what she wanted to be when she grew up with the Cloverbud project.  She drew a picture of herself as a teacher and wrote a pretty detailed explanation. 

  

We went on Saturday to the fair for just one day.  Saturday was the opening day, and the best day for us since Sam and Lilli were showing their goats.  They both did a great job.

Sam worked hard with his goat, who was a little more frustrating than normal to him.  He placed first in his class and sixth overall in the Wayne County Born and Raised category.

    

I love Lilli’s eyes in the second photo.  Her goat had fought her throughout all the summer to brace properly.  He did it during the show like he was born to do it.  She placed 3rd in her class, and looked good doing it.  She was so happy!

     

We also went through most of the other animal barns. We stopped to say hi to the Clark sheep, the funny looking chickens and roosters, checked out the giant and miniature rabbits, and cruised through the pig barn. 

I just realized that while I only went on one day, Jeremy, Gloria, and the girls went back on Tuesday while I was at professional development meetings at school all day.  They had a good day that day, too.

This picture is of no one I know, but it is my favorite fair picture I took this year… maybe I’ll enter next year.

Unitl next year, fair…