Chicken Escapee at the West Marin Fair

The time has come, once again, to celebrate Western Weekend in Pt. Reyes Station.  The weekend begins with the West Marin Fair today.  This is where 4-H members from various local clubs can exhibit their individual 4-H projects they've been working on all year.  Bryce entered his Educational Poster, remember, the one he put together for Marin County 4-H Presentation Day.  He'll be entering this poster display in three of the local fairs this summer....West Marin, Marin County Fair and Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma.

After we set up the poster board in it's designated place, we ventured out to check out some of the entered exhibits.

As we were looking at the rabbit exhibit, we heard a bit of a commotion going on just behind us.  A chicken had escaped from it's cage.

Running loose in the parking lot.

One of the owners tried to throw his sweat jacket down on top of him, but it missed the mark.

Oh Dear!

A group formed a circle around the chicken to try and corner our flustered, feathered friend, but he was too quick.  ( I was also part of this group and not just standing on the side lines taking photos, I'll have you know )

Finally, the little speedster was caught!

And contained. 

You never know what will occur at a 4-H fair!  You just hope it all goes smoothly.

My niece, Morgan was interviewed by the local radio station, KWMR, about the rabbits she and her brother had entered.  I was so proud of her, she spoke and interviewed SO well on her first 'live' and spontaneous interview.

This is one of the things I LOVE about the 4-H program.....it teaches kids the tools they need and begins to build the foundation required to be able to speak confidently in every situation.

By the way, the three bunnies in the cage on the right are the babies that were born just before Easter.  Remember how tiny they were?!  They are now three and a half months old.

Peek-a-boo bunny.

Megan with her rabbits.

Okay, we are now heading back out to the fair to collect Bryce's poster and to find out if he's won any ribbons.

I'll update you tomorrow!

Happy Saturday!

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Bryce's 4-H Cooking Assignment

This year is Bryce's 1st year in 4-H.  We decided since he LOVES cooking, it would be the perfect Project for him to sign up for.  We also thought cooking would be easy enough for him to ease into
4-H to get a feel for what it's all about. 

With our last cooking meeting of the season coming up, the kids were given a homework assignment to bring to the next meeting.  They were to choose a meal to prepare for their family, shop for the ingredients and cook the meal, will a full recap of the entire process to be given to the group at the 4-H cooking meeting.

Bryce chose pizza.  This surprised me, I thought for sure he would choose hamburgers.  But, pizza it is!

After a T-Ball game on Saturday, he got busy cooking dinner.

Spreading the Trader Joe's refrigerated pizza dough (they have pesto, wheat and regular) we used pesto......

Spreading some marinara sauce on the dough........

Grape tomatoes he chopped and ready to go...........

Sprinkling some low-fat mozzarella cheese........

Topping with tomatoes......

And pepperoni......

A separate vegetarian pizza with broccoli and tomatoes..........

The finished pepperoni pizza.  SO GOOD!  Good job Bryce.

I love that Bryce is participating in 4-H this year and he loves it too.  We were filling out his guided story page for his 4-H Record Book about his year in 4-H and a couple of the questions were, "What was your best part of 4-H this year?"  his answer - Everything.  "The worse part of 4-H this year was"  answer= Nothing.

It's a wonderful thing to watch your own children and friend's children grow and become confident, learn life skills, meet new people and build relationships.  Relationships to hopefully last a lifetime.  All made more easily attainable within the 4-H community.

Here's the link to the National 4-H website.  4-H  For more information on joining your local 4-H club.

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