Monday, July 25, 2011

2011 Gilt show

Girls in the Grand Gilt drive

Gilt show was Friday, was going to post but WiFi is spotty here, and I wanted to put up a picture that had all four kids that showed but my memory card is acting weird.
It was a great day, Elizabeth had Champion Hamp gilt, Champion Poland gilt, Sara had Champion Hereford gilt, Jayme had Champion Chester Gilt, and Matthew had Champion Berk gilt, so 5 breeds in the Grand Champion gilt drive, had to find a kid to show one of our girls. Cool thing is, the Poland and the Berk are both out of gilts we showed last year, so much fun to see second and even third generations from the same line do well, the Poland last year was out of the Poland we had the year before, she is actually a third generation to be shown by us.  Ended the day with the overall Reserve grand gilt, with Eby's hamp, the belted pig in the picture. She is a great gilt, only got beat by a crossbred, so very close!!!
So very proud of the kids and to see their efforts rewarded!!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Friday's the day


Our county fair starts Friday, gonna be a hot one too. Hoping it subsides before to much of the fair comes to past. It is a stressful situation to begin with, months of hard work by the kids coming to an end, waiting for one mans opinion that day. Heat adds to the discomfort of all involved. Looking forward to watching them show their projects, regardless of outcome I'm proud of them. Want to try to blog through the fair, daily posts, well maybe several times through the week. Gonng be makin' memories with my kiddos!!

Friday, July 15, 2011

the ant and the grasshopper


The ANT
AND THE
GRASSHOPPER 


This one is a little different .....
 
Two Different Versions ....
 
Two Different Morals
 
OL
 D VERSION 

The ant works
hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper
thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm
and well fed.
 


The grasshopper has
no food or shelter, so he
dies out in the cold.


MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!


MODERN
VERSION


The ant works hard
in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house
and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant
is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper
calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be
allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. 

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN,

and ABC show up to
provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper
next to a video of the ant
in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America  is stunned by the sharp contrast. 


How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper
is allowed to suffer so? 

Kermit the Frog
 appears
on Oprah
with the grasshopper
and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not EasyBeing Green...'

ACORN
 
stages
a demonstration in front of the ant's
house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, We shall overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright
 
has the group kneel down to pray for thegrasshopper's sake,
while he damns the ants.


President Obama
 
condems the ant 
and blames
 
President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the
Pope
 
for the grasshopper's
plight.
 

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid
 
exclaim in an interview with Larry
King
 
that the ant has
gotten rich off the back of the
grasshopper
,
and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
 

Finally, the EEOC drafts
the Economic Equity &
Anti-Grasshopper Act

retroactive to the beginning of
the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number
 
of green bugs and,
 
having
  nothing left to  pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government GreenCzar
and given
  to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper
and his free-loading
  friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is  in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house,
crumbles around them because the grasshopper
 doesn't  maintain it.

The ant has
  disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper 
 is found  dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken
over
  by a gang of spiders  who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous  and peaceful, neighborhood. 

The entire Nation collapses
bringing the rest
 
of the free world with it.
 
MORAL OF THE STORY:
 
Be careful how you vote in 2012.