Cow Time In The Old Cow Town................

........yesterday was the start of getting ready to show cow/calves at the Clark County Fair. Cassidy has shown a cow at the last two county fairs and this is the first year that Trace is old enough to show a cow. Doug's co-worker, Kevin, has two daughters and somehow or other he talked them into joining 4-H and they will participate in the fair also.

Becky and I headed out to the farm yesterday to watch the proceedings.

Trace is looking at his calf and seems to be pondering on his next move. All the kids started out by "attempting" to lead their cows around and getting used to handling them. It seems like some of the cow were winning that battle; but, all the twerps seemed to enjoy the activity. One little girl, I think she had the biggest cow out there, had a few problems. We all heard an "Ow, Ow, Ow" and the cow was standing on her foot..............this happened twice but the kid hung in there. Look in pic #5 and the kid who got stepped on is in the background behind Becky.......big cow......little kid!

Looks like, to me, they have a lot of practicing to do. Cassidy is the "old hand"; but, yesterday she cut her finger on the car door before they got to the farm so wasn't able to do all she wanted to do with her cow. She should be able to help the other kids out when the owyee is healed up.

I think they'll be working with their cows a couple of times a week so it should be interesting to follow their progress. The fair will start in August so they only have about 3 weeks to be ready.

Don't know what we'll be doing later on today. Larry, our friend from Arizona, stopped by and we went though the process of setting up the Garmin Nuvi and computer to use for geocaching. I got my little Netbook set up so will be carry it around in the car whenever we go someplace.

More later.............just hoping we won't have the "heat wave" that's predicted for this weekend.

W&B