Isanti County Fair Results!

Well this year at the Isanti County Fair we got more rain than I remember from other years.
~ Tuesday I entered my projects that were non-livestock: my photography, my citizenship project and my craft and fine art projects. I got 2 blues and 3 reds on my photography, Champion for my grade, Grand Champion overall and a state fair trip for my Citizenship project about the fur trading post and 4 blues for my Crafts and Fine Art projects. We also had Drill Team practice that night.
~ Wednesday I was in charge of running the 4-H Dog Show. We got the agility equipment set-up and then it started to rain. So we put all the equipment away and started the Showmanship classes. Then it became a down-pour so we had to postpone the dog show for about 30 minutes. Finally we finished the Showmanship classes, gave out the awards and started the Rally classes. Kelly, my dog and I placed 2nd in Pre-Novice Rally with my sister beating me by 1 point. Got Rally done and started the Beginner B classes during some light rain. Finished Beginner B and Beginner A and it started to down-pour again. Then we did the Graduate Beginner class (it stopped raining), Novice, Veterans and Pre-Open classes and then we did my Pre-Utility class. We got a Champion with a Red ribbon. After that we did the 4-Dog Team class and got Champion with a blue ribbon. It was finally dry enough then that we could do Agility. I placed Champion in Elementary agility and Reserve Champion in Jumpers 1 agility. And that was the end of the dog show; long day for me anyways. We had mandatory Drill Team practice that night and the arena was really mucky and muddy. Sean had to trot and lope through really big puddles.
~ Thursday was the 4-H Pleasure Horse Show. Sean and I had Halter Showmanship in the morning. We had just finished doing our showmanship pattern and were lined up waiting for the placings. First they called the 1st place winner which was Hannah Bucheger and then they called the 2nd place winner number 3034 which was me and Sean. I have never placed that high in Showmanship and this was Sean's first year in 4-H so he hadn't done a 4-H show before.  I couldn't believe it. My friend next to me in the line-up, Chris Walz, said "Holy Cow."  Then each top 2 winners from each class get to go into a Overall Grand and Reserve Class and it was my first time being in that class. I was so happy with Sean. We didn't win in the Overall Grand and Reserve Class but it didn't matter. We had gotten our first ever Reserve Champion ribbon and I was so proud of Sean. That night the arena was really thick in mud since it rained around noon that day. So Drill Team was a little hard on the horses.
~ Friday was the 4-H Game Show and Sean and I showed in Poles, Key Race and Barrels in the Novice class. Sean hasn't done games before so we were just doing the easy class so he got used to do doing games. So we ended up getting 3 white ribbons because we were just so slow going through those patterns. We had 2 Drill Team performances that day at 1pm and 6:30pm. Sean did really good that those and we even got to see the Rodeo Drill Team perform.
~ Saturday it rained a little in the morning and then the Drill Team rode its last performance for the County Fair at the 4-H Gymkana. Sean and I did 2 classes from the Gymkana- Egg and Spoon and Flag Picking.
~ Sunday I worked in the 4-H eatstand and then I helped out at the WSCA horse show until 6pm and then we loaded up the horses and went home.
Long week and long story but it was worth it.

Isanti County Fair

Hi All,
This will be last post for about 1 1/2 weeks because I will be at the Isanti County Fair showing my Sean and riding in the 4-H Drill Team.
I am riding all day on Thursday in the Pleasure Show and all day Friday in the Games Show. Saturday night at 5pm is the 4-H Gymkana that I will be riding in a little bit because it goes a kind of late and I don't want to be riding at 11pm at night.
Also the 4-H Drill Team is performing Wednesday night around 8:30pm, Thursday around 4 or 4:30pm, Friday at 1pm and 6:30pm and Saturday around 5 or 5:30pm.
So come and see me at the fair, visit my stall which is in the North Barn and watch one or all of the Drill Team performances.
Love Ya,
Liz