The Fair

Monday, July 13th was the opening day of the Buchanan County Fair. We really enjoy going to our county fair to see the animals, watch the 4H kids show & eat some great food from Iowa Beef, Pork & Dairy producers! YUM! Since this was Carter's first year in 4H he was involved in the fair this year. On July 7th the 4H garden judge came out to evaluate his home garden project. Carter was super excited to learn via mail that he had earned a blue ribbon for his project. Of course we had to walk through the fair buildings to find his name posted :)

Thursday, July 16th was the pie baking contest and at 6pm that evening the pies were auctioned off. All of the proceeds from the pie sale went to support 4H activities. After I got off of work we hurried out there to see the end of the auction and couldnt believe it when the pies were going for $400+, yes that is not a typo. Some of the kids also made "flower buckets"....5 gallon buckets that were decorated and filled with flowers & plants. Those great looking buckets were bringing in $150+ dollars, all for a great cause! It was getting kind of late so we decided to leave as I had to work friday morning. As we were heading out they were just starting the Lumberjack Show so we decided to stay and watch. Carter sure did get a kick out of it, especially the log run.

As you can see this 9 time world champion log runner landed on his, as Carter so tactfully put it, balls.

Friday was the cattle shows. They even had a youth fun show which Carter participated in. We dont have our own calf yet, but a very nice girl let Carter borrow her milking shorthorn calf named Mask. The calf was nicely trained, Carter had a lot of fun and got a blue ribbon for that class also. He is looking forward to next year so he can do his bottle/bucket calf.

For the price of parking $2, no gate charge and the delicious food you sure cant beat that for a day of family fun!

enjoy the short video of the Fun Show