Fair Week!

Last week was the Blount County Fair, and the Young Farmers always have a booth there. Last Sunday was "setup day". There's a lot of pieces, parts, blood (yes, there was some blood!), sweat, and tears that goes into our booth. We try to fit as much "agriculture" into a 20 foot space as possible!

These pictures are kind of dark because the Agri-business Center was too cheap to turn on the lights!

Here's the inside of our completed booth...

and our completed barn. We have photos hanging inside the barn of Blount Co. farmers and their farms.

Here's the entire booth!

Some idiot (me) can't take a decent picture, but our booth placed 2nd!

The Cattlemen's Association won 1st. They had a painted barn, we had a real one! Hmph.

Friday night was our turn to work the fair booth.

When we escaped from the booth a few minutes, look who we ran into! It's Clyde, Henry's cousin!

We also visited the petting zoo where I made friends with a llama and two goats!

Do you know how hard it is to get a llama and two goats to pose for a picture??

Saturday night, the Young Farmers held our annual "Pedal Tractor Race".

Look who won! I'm so fast, I'm blurry! Wait a sec...wrong picture.

Okay, so here's the real participants...3-8 year olds!

They compete for prizes like toy tractors, gift certificates, and coloring books.

Hope you enjoyed the Blount County Fair!!