Charlie being fitted with his new hat.
Taking a little walk outside behind the barn to stretch his legs...
And then kicking back in the stall. I should have taken picture of Charlie's fleece that was being shown in the next building over. Forgot! Last year his fleece won Grand Champion at this fair. This year, she's showing his fleece and a virgin fleece from the baby alpaca she has at home.
This llama was Charlie's neighbor and had about this same expression all the time. :~)
Our other neighbors were sheep and goats.
These two were rearing up and head-butting each other.
Baaaaah!
I liked Huck... Huck was cool.
Beef cattle being shown...
Views from our little sitting area:
Zedonks.
Excuse the Zedong on the zedonk.
And finally some horses!
I was really impressed with the caliber of competitors in the horse classes. We watched a bit of Western Pleasure and this trail class. I remember watching in years past and 4H kids at this level at the fair were very much riding backyard horses and humble tack and show outfits... Not so any more! These guys were dressed to the nines, silvered and polished and their horses too. And they did good work on them. And this was the intermediate trail class, kids about 12-15.
The task was to canter up and stop along side that pole, and sidepass over to the mailbox. Nicely done.
This little haflinger sure was cute
And this little Arab was a class act... either still a stallion? (not sure if kids can show stallions in 4h) or recently so from his neck and carriage.
Toward the end of the day... back in our barn... that crowd is gathered around Charlie's stall, Jessie is in there with him talking about him.
See the one goat sticking his head up in the middle? :~)
That was our day. :~)