Oklahoma State Fair Dairy Goat Show!

We arrived back from MO at about 4:30, loaded up all my equipment and goats and took of for the fair. We made it in time, and I got right to work getting my girls ready. I had already clipped 2 of them, so they just had to be washed and dried, and then I clipped the last one. I take SO long clipping goats, so we didn't get finished up until about 9:30. I was taking my time though, because I was talking to a lady for a while, and then people would come through and ask questions and such. Several times I had quite the group standing there watching me. :D Somehow our stalls were like right where everybody came into the barns so we had tons of people coming through. :) It was so funny though, because we were right next to a whole row of La Mancha goats (they don't have ears) and it seemed like EVERYBODY almost was constantly asking "why do those goats not have ears??" or "do they cut their ears off?" I probably got asked that at LEAST 20 times! :D LOL at least with my girls I don't have to worry about that question...they've got ears a plenty! :P Then I had one person ask me if you could use my clippers to cut a little boys hair... she liked how quiet they were. :D I was like, well I guess you could, it's the same type thing. :D


The Tuesday show didn't go so well for me...and quite honestly I was really discouraged about it, thinking about how much we had invested into these goats, and trying to figure out why they weren't winning. :) Anna thinks the judge was mad at me for some reason... but I don't know. :P My goats were like SO not behaving that first day...oh boy it was NOT good!!

Wednesday turned out to be the big day. We left a little bit later, because my girls don't show until later in the day. While we were waiting I decided that I wanted to try out riding some Go-Karts that some of the others had drove the day before. It turned out being so fun!! Andrew and I got a 2 seater because he's not tall enough to drive one, and we were moving!! Poor Micah was so frustrated with his car because it didn't seem to go as fast and Anna and I kept passing him up. :) I think Andrew was just a bit worried about how fast we were taking the corners. :P We ended up doing it again when Caleb, Dan and Elijah came up later in the afternoon. I embarrassed myself really bad though the second time I drove. :P LOL got in trouble rather, it was pretty funny. :D And my back is majorly sore from driving them, they have absolutely NO padding and it's super bumpy. :) Rather painful sitting in hard backed chairs at the moment. :)




The show started out with me placing 4th in the open show with Main Attraction, which was higher than yesterday. And THEN my girl Shardae took 2nd place out of a large and VERY competitive class of juniors! I was SO happy! Andrew's doe placed a lot higher than the other time as well. The doe that placed 1st in front of Shardae ended up going Grand Champion Junior doe, so Shardae had a chance at Reserve, but it ended up going to a yearling doe.




The Youth show was really small, but we got Grand Champion, and Reserve, and then ended up getting Best Junior Doe in Show with Shardae. :) I was really happy about that too. It was so much fun, and certainly made up for the day before!



It was my first dairy show ever, and I really enjoyed it. Learned a lot and am looking forward to the one in Tulsa next week. :)

But for now...I'm getting ready for the Boer goat show on Saturday. Elijah and I took them to get their health papers this morning, and we'll be taking them up to the fair tomorrow afternoon to get them all prepped up. I'm taking seven, three bucks, and four does. Should be fun!

A Trip To MO!!

Well, we finally were able to make it to MO to visit my dear friend Danielle, they were having a screening of a documentary about her Mom and we went down to see that, and to spend some time with Dannie. Dad, Anna and I left early Sunday morning and made it there by about 1:30..,it was SO great to see Danielle again. :)

First of all we met up with Danielle at her house and got to meet her Dad and step Mom, and her cute little brother Luke. Then we headed to AppleBee's where everybody was waiting on us for lunch..."everybody" meaning Danielle's sisters Mandy and Tara, Sage and Tera Naylor, and Hans and Helena Bluedorn. The waitress there was like cracking us up SO much though, it was hilarious! :D After lunch we went over to a coffee shop, it was rather windy outside and well...lets just say Dannie and wind don't go too well together. :P Then we headed to Tara's house to change and get ready for the screening.

It was really neat to get to see the documentary, very sad of course but I really enjoyed seeing it and it touched me deeply. We got to meet lots of people there as well, which was a lot of fun.

After the screening it was time to party!! We all went out to dinner and then headed to the Hunts house, they were SO hospitable to us, opening their home and just treated us so kindly. I had so much fun, finally got to meet Collyn Hunt, Danielle's friend that I hear so much about. It was so neat though, even though we'd never met before it felt like I'd known Collyn and her whole family for years! We played "spoons" and then four on a couch, and got to hear some singing as well. :D AND we ended up staying up all night talking! :0 Well, actually Danielle and I were like SO wiped out that we ended up sleeping for about 45 minutes but that was it. :) We were just having so much fun together we didn't want to go to bed. :) And of course our time there was so short we had to make the most of it. We left Monday morning at about 6:30 so we could get back in time to take the goats to the fair...but I'm going to make a separate post about that.

It was such a great trip and I enjoyed every bit of it! The pictures aren't the greatest...but they are pretty much all I have. :) Love you, Dannie Mistina!

The Big Girls...

Thought I'd post some random pictures Anna took of the cows...those little calves are getting big!


This little visitor was sitting up on the barn the other morning...not sure where it came from!!

Getting My Boer Ladies In Shape...

I've been needing to get all my Boer goats wormed, and prepped for breeding which is coming up here pretty quick, and I still had some I needed to pull blood on for some testing as well. So trying to think of the best way to "get er done" I posed the idea to Andrew to make a pen and chute where we could run the girls one by one onto my grooming stand. That way we wouldn't have to chase each goat down and drag it on. :P So Andrew got to work and fixed up a small holding pen with a chute that led right up to the stand.



I had a lot of help too, Andrew would run the goats into the chute, and I would open the gate at the end and they would come right up onto the stand...the first one escaped but it worked really well with all the others. Once we got them secured, Hosie had a needle and syringe ready for me to pull blood, then they got wormed, and hooves trimmed. Hoof trimming does wear me out though, especially with my big Boer girls that enjoy trying to kick as much as they can. Not to mention a few toes stepped on....yes I was wearing flip flops. :P But it's so nice to know it's all done! We had a lot of fun, and Andrew just loves anything to do with moving livestock around so he had a blast helping out. :) Mercy even had fun trying to feed them hay. :)

Unicycling.... :D

Well, I thought you all might enjoy laughing at some pictures of me "trying" to ride the unicycle. Beware these pictures are a bit scary of me though! :D I've been working at it for about a month....it's taking much longer to learn than my genius brothers who mastered it in probably a week. :) Oh well...practice makes perfect I guess! Or rather in this case "crashing makes perfect." :P I tried to pose some "wipe outs" while Anna was taking pictures...but she never could quite get them...and I got tired of crashing on purpose so just me riding will have to do. :)

Hopefully ya'll will get a laugh from these... :P





Oh wow, I just realized I actually did TWO blog posts today!! :D That's amazing for me! :)

Besh

Interview

A blogger friend did a interview with me and posted it on her blog. Thought you all might be interested in seeing it, might find out something you didn't know about me. :)

Not much...

Well, I haven't posted a general update for a while...so I guess it's about time. :) I've been greatly enjoying the nice weather this week, (nice in my opinion is sunny and at least 90 degrees). :P

I haven't had a whole lot going on, just life...and then starting school back up. My job is helping a certain brother with his math, it sure can be challenging at times. :) We've had a little project going where we each drew a name of a person in our family and are to be committed to praying for that person this week. Well there's been a few times when I've been like "whoever has this person, might want to be praying for him!" :D But actually he is doing much better this year than last, thankfully. :)

August has flew by so quickly it seems, and September looks to be a month full of goat shows. :) I'm looking forward to that, the first one is the OK State Fair, I'll be showing my Nubian kids that I had shipped in back in the spring for the first time, as well as some Boers. Those little Nubian's are something else though when trying to get them to stand still...hopefully by working with them a little bit each day they'll get the idea by the time the show gets here. :)

I've been having fun "trying" to learn how to ride a unicycle...but unfortunately it's not going too well. :( All I do is crash..*sigh* but maybe one of these days I'll get it figured out. I am able to go about 20 feet instead of 2 though so I guess that's a bit of improvement. :) Yesterday was pretty funny, usually I can land on my feet pretty well when I lose my balance...but wow yesterday, I like TOTALLY wiped out. :D Quite funny, thankfully I haven't hurt myself too bad...yet. :)

We had 100 little baby chicks come in the mail this morning, they are so little and cute!

That's all for now folks,

Besh