Well, the Beef Show at the Washakie County Fair started at 4:30. Four hours later… with an hour’s drive home… and the 90 degree heat… I was pooped! I came in, downloaded a ton of photos and videos, and passed out in the recliner! I woke up at 11:30 and staggered off to bed! The…
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Oh, Sheep Show!
It was Jaxon and Lacee’s turn to shine in the Washakie County Fair Sheep Show. Again, I can’t tell you much about showing sheep… constant eye contact with the judge, always be on the opposite side of the sheep as the judge, lift the sheep’s head up and back to brace the back muscles so…
Oh, the Pig Show!
It was Quinlan and Lorelei’s day at the Washakie County Fair. Now we’ve been to the Beef Show before, but not the Pig Show until today. Rocket and Rose are Hereford pigs, colored like Hereford cattle. Quinlan was on first with the FFA kids. The first timers compete with the experienced hands and what chaos!…
Comparison
Vernon and his show lambs you saw yesterday… Today, Jaxon recreated the event…
Fair in Previous Years
Whoops. I was partially wrong yesterday when I said that Vernon and I had no experiences with competing at county fairs. Our kids didn’t. I didn’t. But Vernon and his sister (who is visiting right now) both took animals to the Washakie County Fair. Oddly enough, we’ve been going through old photos and guess what?…
Fairly Well
The Washakie County Fair has started… and suddenly, as Vernon says, we are a 4H/FFA outfit with a few cows on the side…. The horse show was today and then next week we will be attending the pig show (Quinlan and Lorelei), the sheep show, (Jaxon and Lacee), the beef show (all four), the bred…
Country Like This
When they text you to bring up more supplies to where they’re building fence… stop and think. You know that while grass down here is finished, grass on the mountain will be still covered in pollen. Take an allergy pill! But, no… Drive around taking photos to document things, because that’s what you do… and…
Throwback Thursday: To Bee at Summer School, v.2.0
This was first published July 17, 2014. This morning I hosted Ten Sleep’s summer school on a field trip. Their focus is on… bees! I decided I could help with that! First was a talk on my lawn… where we looked at new and old comb and dead bees and brood comb and drone comb…
Wordless Wednesday: There’s a Web
Vernon captured this photo and I thought it was too good to pass up for a puzzle pic! Points to those who can finish this title line from an old Girl Scout song… and the jigsaw is HERE.
This Day
The horses wait patiently as the semis are unloaded. I don’t know why I like these versions so much… but I do. They have an entirely different vibe from just transferring color to a basic black and white. Over exposed. Grainy. Gritty. Not that I would take all of my photos like this… Wyoming’s beauty…
Mooving Again
When six semi’s show up in your driveway first thing in the morning, you get the hint that you might have a big day. I chose to use a black and white filter. There’s definitely an old fashioned look to these photos. I’ll share more when I’m not falling asleep!
Library Class
I taught a tie dye class for adults at the library Friday night. After researching some amazing artists on YouTube (there are some crazy talented people out there), I chose to do an outline of symmetrical shapes or animal heads in class. We used just the more inexpensive tie dye kits on pillowcases and bandannas….