Fair week

Take the baby to the barn too

        The Augusta County Fair is upon us. 2022 was the first Augusta County fair we did for the whole week. We had done a couple of jackpot shows for just Saturday, but last year we did the WHOLE week. It was so much fun! There are kids running around everywhere. They know their boundaries and we don't have to worry about them. We eat like kings and sit around and catch up with everyone. It's HOT and it's a lot of work, but so much fun! I posted on Facebook something that someone had shared, and it is really so true. Drake & Charley don't play sports, they show animals. I'll share it here too. If you get the opportunity, go out to the barn at the fair. Walk around and see how hard these kids and their parents work with these animals to get them here. You might just learn something. Go eat the Middlebrook 4H food booth in the Dick Coffey pavilion. 

Go to your local fair, walk past the rides and the games and find those livestock kids. Have a conversation with them, ask them about their animals. You just may learn something and have your faith in our future restored.

We fill the bleachers on Friday nights for football. We fill the bleachers on cold winter nights for basketball. We travel miles and miles, to sit in the bleachers for volleyball, baseball, softball, gymnastics, and dance.

Our 4-H and FFA families would like to invite you to fill the bleachers on a warm summer day during county fair week and watch the kids who practice with a 1200 pound steer that doesn’t always want to walk, a 140 pound lamb that doesn’t want to get on the stand for the 100th time, a 280 pound hog that just wants to stay in the cool barn or a stubborn goat that doesn’t like the chain/halter.

Come check out Exhibit Hall for all the non-livestock exhibitors. Those kids have heart and dedication and put hours into their creations.

Let’s fill the bleachers, barns, and buildings to show these kids that their hard work doesn’t go unnoticed and because of them, the future of the agriculture and leadership is in good hands.

 Wishing you sunny skies and green pastures,

McKession