A Happy Home
May. 17, 2007
10:11 PM
Taking on 4H
Ladies at a 4H meeting in 1949
Today my 9yo daughter and I took one of her new baby rabbits to our first 4H club meeting. It was a nice group of people, and I was fairly impressed with how well the meeting ran. The group is currently getting ready for the county fair in August, so one of the tasks this afternoon was to practice "judging"" different tables with regards to which water bottle was best, which rabbit had the best fur, which medication would you choose, and so on. During it all, I think my daughter was still starry eyed from the earlier talk of "4H Summer Camp", and my eyes were glazing over: you mean there's a "right" water bottle?! And that medicine pushy plunger goes where?!
The leader Mom laughed when I told her it was a bit overwhelming, "And it just gets worse!" Oh, that's encouraging! Thankfully, I declined participating in showing our rabbits at the fair this year; I figured it was enough just to work on how to hold the little scrambler without worrying about whether its fur had good "fly back" (whatever that means!)
And as an aside, how long do you think it took to curl all that hair for the 4H meeting in 1949? God bless those mothers; I was just relieved when we got to the meeting (and home again) without forgetting our rabbit.
Blessings,
Keri Mae
Keri Mae
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