Good Afternoon! Today I’m taking a break from my blogging and passing the buck to another 4-Her from my county. Please welcome Theresa Bailey to the computer screen. Theresa is thirteen years old and is going into 8th grade. She is a member of Scott County 4-H and is showing a Market Lamb in the Sheep Project. Without further ado here’s Theresa…

Today is the show for Market lambs! I’m really exited. I probably won’t do well, but I’m going to have fun, so who cares? My dad clipped my sheep on Tuesday so I don’t have to do that, but I have to wash Princess Buttercup (my sheep) today before the show. Tomorrow is the showmanship show. I’m really, really exited for that show because showmanship is a strong suit in my family. I’ve won some of my classes at county fair, and my dad won senior showmanship when he was at state fair as a kid. I took the 4-H Sheep skilathon test yesterday. It was a test to see how much we knew about sheep. There were some questions about the anatomy of sheep and the different pieces of equipment farmers use to work with sheep. I’m one of three people showing sheep this year from Scott county. The other two are Krystal Repasky and Michelle Schoenbauer.

Food at the state fair… Well, there are different types of food. There’s 4-H food- good, nutritious food that gets us through the day. All 5 food groups are represented with a 4-H meal. Outside food- food that our mothers make us pack, including several varieties of drinks, chips of a kinda healthy variety, and carrots. Then… Fair food! A parent’s worse nightmare. Cheese curds, root beer floats, proto pups, deep fried pickles, deep fried candy bars (these are extremely evil. You can feel them clogging your arteries.), slushies, and fudge puppies. Marsha had one of these for breakfast! For those of you who aren’t in the know, Fudge Puppies are Belgian waffles on a stick. Covered in chocolate and whipped cream and sprinkles. Yuk. Marsha says that Fudge Puppies are like Ambrosia (food for the gods).

Staying in the dorms… is awesome. There are about 2,000 kids at the livestock encampment this year, so it is kind of crowded. There are about 30 kids here from Scott County. We are in one row of bunks. I swear I get a better night of sleep on the bunks then in my bed at home. All of us girls are crammed in there. The plug-ins on the wall are filled with cell phone chargers, flat irons and blow driers. You have to shower whenever you can, because at night and in the early morning getting into the showers is a slim to none chance. Only two days until I get my first fleet farm shirt of the year!!! I really hope the shirt is some shade of green. Or blue. What the heck, any color works.

I watched the State Arts-In show yesterday, and I’m going to watch it again today. It’s amazing. The premise of the show is that cave-men are building a wall. The lights are great, the sound system is wonderfully maintained, and the costumes are best of the last two years. The music is catchy (one of the songs is “We Will Rock You”), the dancing is complicated yet superbly performed, and the acting is funny and sweet. I really liked it. I can’t wait to see it again.

Right now there’s a demonstration going on about Rabbit agility that sounds cool. I’m going to go watch that. Bye.

And that was a word from Theresa Bailey. Thank you for Reading.

Marsha Bartholomay