Stock Show with Landry

Us at San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo.

Well Miss Landry can say she has already experienced her very first Stock Show, and at the ripe old age of 2.5 months old. We like to start them early in Texas. The only bad part (or good depending on how you look at it) is that Landry slept thru most of it. And the part that she was awake for I sadly didn't get any pictures of her awake at it. Landry and I went to San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo this month to take some of our 4-Her's to the show to be tour guides to the local elementary school kids. We had a great time my car was full of girls and I couldn't have made the trip without the girls they were the best to Landry and to me. They helped so much with Landry and didn't mind helping out at all. Best part was the girls were troopers while I changed Landry's poopy diaper on the side of the road in downtown Austin in the front seat of my Tahoe. 

The Tom turkey that made Landry watch it in awe.

Sadly the weather was cold at the stock show and not warm like it was said to be. *damn weatherman lied* But Landry was such a good baby, but then again she always is. She slept thru the kids getting
the run down of the day and the bus loads of kids showing up. But she did wake up enough to see all the animals in the HEB building. I think the turkeys were her favorite cause the Tom turkey was strutting the most and was super loud. I even liked him and I am so not a fan of birds. I can't wait to actually have Landry awake at the stock show and see all the animals and get a kick out of them. I know there will be plenty of stock shows in her future.

How my baby girl spent most of her trip at the stock show, asleep!

Good times going to Duncan

Just standing waiting for something to happen

It is never a dull moment when I go with my co worker/Ag agent Todd. It could just be a trip to check calves or to go pick up a trailer its always an adventure. But the trip to Duncan was a fun one. And I think we took the LONG way to Duncan, OK. Now from Decatur, TX to Duncan, OK it should take us 90 minutes but some how it took us 3 hours to get there. From the time we left the office to us pulling into the show.

 Now we did stop off and drop off 2 hogs at their new home and in order to do that we had to get thru theses guys. They were more curious on why we drove into their resting area, why they had to get up for us, and what was the strange & LOUD creature we were dropping off. They were polite and stayed out of our way. We were then off to Duncan or so we thought........

Going the back roads to get to Duncan we got side tracked and had to double back to Bowie, TX to McDonald's. WHY??? good question not for a bathroom break or food but to buy 3 pigs from a guy who was headed home from Duncan. It's not every day that you  go to McDonald's to buy 3 LIVE pigs from a guy. Usually you go to McDonald's for a by-product of a pig (bacon) but not us we go to buy them. But once we do and have them loaded we can finally get on the road to Duncan!!! Only one more stop to fill up on diesel and I swear Todd is the mayor and he will talk to anyone. We waited for ever at the gas station has he was inside getting the scoop on the hog show before we even got there.

Not the one we were looking for but an example of what we looking for.

Once in Duncan we made our rounds checking out the hogs in the parking lot for sale and trying to hunt down the illusive "AWESOME red pig" that was gonna be a winner for us. Well we found the pig but not the owner. Now we had to hunt down the owner Tom Thompson of 4 T farms. So now the fun begins. We made a trip in the truck and trailer to pick up another pig then somehow ended up going the wrong way down a one way path of truck and trailers. No worries we made it thru and no one got scrapped up in the process.  Well we made it inside to try to find this owner and Todd asked everyone he knows and while trying to find this owner I came across someone I grew up showing with and college with. I wish I would have taken a picture of his face cause the shock of seeing me in Duncan, OK and not in CA was priceless. Poor Wes I think I shocked him and it just goes to show you I can't go anywhere without knowing someone. Well after asking everyone Todd knew and finding the other pig breeder we needed to find cause we are picking up another pig to take home with us. Todd finally got the brilliant idea for me to Google the owner and find his number. NO clue why we didn't think of this sooner after walking around the barns FOR EVER!!!! Well I looked him up since I was the secretary of the day. My job was to take picture of the phone numbers of hog breeders Todd wanted to come back too. We got dinner then picked out last hog and made the trip back to Decatur, TX. And we finally called it a night at 10:30pm. It was a LONG trip but worth it. I always learn something new and always see something new on these adventure with Todd.

(I LOVE my job!!! and the adventures I get because of it.)

Not every day ..............

Its not every day or every job where you get to set up an incubator and hatch out eggs in your office. I have 21 eggs that are going (cross your fingers) to hatch in 21 days!! And then I will have peeping little chicks in my office. No I will not be taking them home cause I don't like grown up chickens and I live in an apartment and I don't think chickens living in bath tubs are a good idea. But I love the fact that I get to do this apart of my job. Through out the county there is also 9 different classrooms that also are going through the same process. My eggs are backups in case something goes wrong for those eggs. So let's cross our fingers for my eggs to hatch and find good homes, cause Lord knows I so won't be taking any home with me.