Cass County 4-H Fair

This morning we went to the fair-grounds to find out how we did on everything that was entered. Stephanie is the only one in 4-H, but some of my sisters entered things and we all entered a quilt. Here is the rundown: Beckisue got a blue ribbon on her apple pie; Amanda got a blue ribbon on her quilt; Amanda got a red ribbon on her jam - she was really disappointed with that. She got knocked way down because her tag got knocked off the jar. It was there when she entered it. She found it sitting on the shelf with the jars. I guess the judge just didn't see it. Our quilt got reserve champion. We were all pretty happy about that! Stephanie got a blue ribbon on her photography poster and she got champion on her Color Salon (matted 8x10)! She is so excited about that. This is her first year in photography. She also got judges choice and she gets to compete at State. We are all pretty excited about it.

Here is the picture. It is pretty by itself but it is absolutely beautiful matted!

This evening we went back to the fair just to look around. We saw lots of people we knew. As we always do at the fair. Mom told me that Amanda and I couldn't go ahead of them any more because every time they saw anyone we had already seen them and told them everything that they tried to say. :)
Dad saw a t-shirt tonight and said he had to go comment on it. We are used to that. Dad is always commenting on people's t-shirts. This one was very unusual though! I turned around and knew which one it was immediately. There was a girl wearing a shirt with a Confederate Battle flag on the back. Above the flag it said "If this shirt offends you..." and at the bottom it said "You need a history lesson!" I loved it! We talked for quite a while with that girl. Dad started out by telling her that his great-grandfather fought for the 43rd Mississippi Infantry. Almost before he could get that out she said "My great-great-grandfather was Gen. Joseph E. Johnson." So then dad said to her "Oh! Then my great-grandfather fought under your great-great-grandfather!" They talked a little more and decided that he didn't fight under him after all. She ended up asking my dad if he would be willing to go to a board meeting at the high-school the end of the year. She said they are going to be discussing what t-shirts kids are allowed to wear to school. She said that she knows there are offensive t-shirts out there but she isn't wearing hers to be offensive. She said that they are actually talking about not allowing kids to wear the American flag!!! They just don't want to offend anyone!!!!!!!!! What's with that?

You never know what you will see in public! We were standing there talking to some friends tonight and this guy walked by with a snake around his neck. It looked SO real. I thought there is no way it could be though. He passed and I looked to see the head. It was REAL! That's terrible! Snakes were NOT meant to be pets!! The very idea of having a snake around my neck gives me the creeps!