It was a busy weekend.  Took a crew of kids to Woodward to a judging contest on Friday.  Some of them were off their game while others had a good day.  One group of Freshmen and Sophomores won the intermediate division.  A group of 8th graders made it through their first contest.  They judged all of the classes, gave reasons and managed to turn their cards in properly.  Success.

While we were there judging, Rodney Washmon took Duke and Clayton Washmon to the 5 State Fair in Liberal, KS.  That worked out as Clayton showed the grand market lamb and Duke showed the grand market goat.  Duke’s goat is a Blood Pressure on a Joe Dirt.

Saturday brought getting some pens built at the ag farm so that I can get some goats and lambs off of my feed bill.  Heith Sander brought me some seed wheat so I could get some grazing pastures planted.  Sunday afternoon, I got ground cultivated and wheat drilled in the goat pasture and a few other little deals.  We’re going with beardless wheat this time.  Triticale seed has gotten harder to find and pricier.

We are a week away from the Best of the West sale on Labor Day.  I’m going to have to start getting my stuff ready–goats, cooking, sale setup, etc.

I need to put some cidrs in some does.  There are several problems involving ciders–first, they aren’t cheap.  And two, in order to use them, you have to deal with does.  Problems.