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Take a Kid to Work day

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Well, I get to stay at the farm, move cattle, shovel grain for dad, and go on our elk trip!!!!!!!!! Ifyou ever get the chance, take another kid out to the farm and introuduce them to the work, you get a free hand,and you just might make their day :D
 
*puts coffee pot on stove and turns burner on*

C'mon down!!!!!!!! Ya can help Al and I work on his 4-H record book, which is due on Monday.......and he can't do a whole lot with his "usin" hand in a cast...... :roll: Need to get Thank You notes written, too, since we got addresses for buyers and donors, finally. He can't do that, either. So.......how legible is your handwritin? :wink:

I sure hope his hand is healed by the 15th, and they don't put another cast on when they take this one off.......:nod:
 
Speakin of 4H yearbooks.....I just got Lil Lilly's Beef Record book back today from the Extention office along with all of her awards...(somehow or another we managed to miss the awards ceremony this year) bet it was because of a barrel race LOL Anyway....She got a backpack that has the 4H emblem embroydry'd(sp) on it. A 4H watch for being a State Qualifier with her record book, a really nice silver 4H key ring, and 2 pins for different projects. What got me...you never know how the record books do once they leave the county level, I guess she placed really well in District with it, because it came back from State Record Book competition with a note attached to the front of it that said 2nd place. Few notes inside of things that she could have done a lil different that might have gotten her a 1st.......But that's ok ....she done great.
 
Yeah we just had a 4H meeting last night and Megan won our district with her book-some of those kids really put alot of work into their books-some their parents do for them lol. I still remember Megan and I doing her first one when she was 5-she could print but not spell so I had to spell out each word for her in the whole record book. I think some of the records are a bit too much like school but that's just me-I tend to make up my opwn projects too. I had the seniors soprt a pen of fat steers for me and try and rank them by carcass quality-they did pretty darn good.Well be sorting off 4H calves in a couple weeks when they come off stubble so I'll take some pics. That Major League steer is a little tank-Congrats to Lil Lilly on her win-I really enjoyed the 4H show I went to in the states last year.
 
Yea, Congrats to Li'l Lily!!!!!!! :D I love when the kids do great, and most of the ones who are really "into" it most, will put out the effort.

We don't have District or anything here, just County, and then the awards banquet, which is tentatively scheduled for 3:00 on Sunday Dec. 3, at the present. The County Council is requesting that our new State 4-H President (from Socorro) come and do the Guest Speaker deal. If he declines, not sure who they'll get. But I even get to take a couple of hours off work tomorrow, to take my "bunch's" books over and turn them in. So far, I have 3 turned in to me, but some of them just take them over to the CA office, and I sign them there, when I take the rest over. Another couple of kids needed to do minor things (like put in record sheets they forgot to bring when we worked on the books) and will bring them up to the station in the morning. So far, Al's is the biggest book I have (but then, he took something like 9 projects, and everyone else just took 1 or 2......). It probably weighs a couple of pounds, but it turned out really neat this year, using the hole punch that does all the holes at the same time, instead of doing them one by one. That makes it really hard to get them nice and even.

I think record books have to go to State Conference here, in July......Al never has his done by then (even done to date) so has never sent his. A couple of kids from the north end of the county won trips to National Conference last year, by taking theirs to the State Contest. It was pretty cool, really, I think that's the first time Catron has sent anyone to National.
 
Ranchy, our Extention Agent is the one that forwards books on to District and State. Alot of folks don't realize that you can send things on to higher levels of competition. And it never hurts to ask them questions on how you can get Al's or any of the others stuff into those contests.

I"m not a big fan of the record books. I think they are neat, but sometimes the judges aren't payin attention to what they are doin. Lil Lilly's book is for last year...she was a Freshman. In it, it says that Seniors are required to do a resume. (Which is used for the 4H Scholarships) On her record book score they subtracted 10 points for her not having a resume. ???? along with a sticky note that says if she'd had it she might have taken 1st place. On the front cover page it askes the name and age of the submitter......9th grade......NOT A SENIOR!!! LOL but like I said....oh well, I know she did great, she knows she did great....and ya can't always help what the judge does. Same goes with judgin animals......it's all what that particular judge likes on that day.
 
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.......just speaking as a leader and not as a parent, maybe they were talking about Senior 4-H members (14-19 years old). Just a thought. I know our kids can start applying for scholarships through 4-H when they get to be a Senior member. Other than that, I really don't know what they might have been talking about......

Just got an email from our CA, our awards banquet is 12-3 this year (sure beats the heck out of 12-20 like it was last year :roll: ). Maybe more folks will show up, since it's not so close to Christmas.......though it being on a Sunday could hurt it, too......

There's just so many variables when it comes to planning stuff like that. :?
 
Senior as in Senior 4H'r 14-18 is probably right. But, they never award any scholarships to anyone but seniors in highschool, so that was what we were thinkin I guess.....we'll know next time. Plus it'll give her experience in writing essay's that she hasn't had to do much of yet......when it comes time for the REAL Scholarships she'll need to know how to do that well.
 
Here is what my kids looked like after "Take a kid to work day" :lol:

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Fair's are alot of work. For SURE!!! But the cutest thing I ever saw......and I didnt have my camera with me, was a young girl curled up next to her steer asleep. It was a cold February Day at the Houston Livestock Show, wind whippin thru the barn, and she found the warmest place she could find. A Big Fuzzy Warm Steer. Hers......to me that showed more dedication and hard work on her part that she had an animal that she could do that with than any of the others there.
 

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