It's FFA Week! This week was totally awesome. Tuesday I helped with the FFA Quiz, Wednesday was the bale toss (talk about down-home fun, we had farm kids on the tailgate and guys in overalls, and all of us laughing at how these greenhorns try to throw these haybales!), Thursday was for Cinnemon Rolls and the Petting Zoo Barnyard, and today was Kiss the Pig (congrats Mr Hak) and during lunch Josh, Ashley, and Jessica had a scale machine set up to see how much people could lift with a rope. The story is that if a 53 pound kid was stuck in a grain bin, could you pull them out? I could lift 146 pounds, so I'd save them if they were stuck 3 feet in. Pries won of course, he could lift almost to 400 pounds. Amazing how much it takes to get a kid out of a grain bin, scary really... But Thursday was hands-down the best, I brought in Cabin and Jasmine for the petting zoo, and all the little kids and even the high schoolers thought they were cool and Cabin was beautiful (which he is =) We had a brown swiss cow and calf, goats (the one month old white goat i held most of the day, I named it Goat), piglets, ducks, chickens, a 6 week old sheba pup... all in all a great day to chill with the animals and fellow farm kids. There was even a reporter there from the paper that interviewed all of us. Great fun, look forward to this week all year =) "Country folks will survive..." I love farmers!
~Helen
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hey helen you could pull me out, thanks! and i could pull out a puppy, if that.
~kass
i could if you weren't buried in any grain! lol. it's a scary deal though, i remeber mom and dad going over to Hammel's on our gravel road to help them dig a kid out of the grain bin, that was scary. we'll have to work on getting you a puppy then ;)
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