Farewell To The Fair
It is after emerging from a three hour nap and washing and drying a whole tractor bucket full of laundry that I am finally getting back to my Steemit blog. The past week of my life spent being a 4-H beef leader at the North Idaho State Fair was one of the most challenging and rewarding chunks of activity that I have ever engaged in. There were victories and heartbreaks, moments of levity and an incident of bullying. Everything about being a human was magnified while at the fair. At times I honestly felt like I was going a bit mad.
There were a bunch of new benchmarks in my timeline. My phone said that I walked over 72 miles from Monday night to Sunday night. Nearly all of that walking was too and from the beef barn. If anyone had told me that being a market beef 4-H leader during fair week was a guaranteed ten pound weight loss, I would have totally scoffed. Slightly humbled and lighter post fair moi would nod respectfully in the receiving of such news. I mean, I never even got to eat any fair food until Saturday, almost a week after I had arrived in the place. Don't worry though, I made up for my lack of fair comestible intake on that day!!
Another first was getting over 100 text messages in two hours. I felt almost like someone important. Heh. Wednesday and Thursday were show days for my Beeflings, and all I have to say is that I have a whole new respect for people that show anything from themselves to animals and everything in between. Showing steers on a crunched timeline was an incredible bit of maneuvering, and if you know any kids that do show steers, please shake their hands and tell them you are amazed by them. It takes a ton of grit to train, bathe, groom, and show a 1400lb animal, all whilst crowded in with about 60 other 1400lb or so animals. What a rush it was!
I have tons of pictures, anecdotes, tales, and behind the scenes insights to share with you all. What I don't have is a whole lot of energy at the moment. Tonight I shall leave you with some sights from this year's North Idaho State Fair, and this coming week when my brain cells finally reboot, I plan on catching up on my sharing all of the things I want to share with ya'll in the blogosphere that is Steemit. I have missed you all, but my absence has also been in the service of something super amazing and excellent!
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