My Weekend - Part 1

This weekend was a fun one.

Saturday morning started with getting a bunch of littles out of the house to a 4-H county competition in horse knowledge. There are two parts: Hippology and Horse Bowl.  Lucas came with us as Dad and Nathaniel were off for an outdoor cooking class.

Hippology is basically the study of all things horse: breeds, colors, grooming, tools, feeds, diseases etc. It is a written test of 25 questions for the cloverbuds (under 8), 50 questions for juniors (8-13) and 80 questions for the seniors (14 and over).

Horse Bowl is testing about the same type of stuff, just in a different format: round table questions with buzzers (think big game of horse jeopardy)

The top 4 junior and senior scorers can be on the county team to go to the Massachusetts State Competition in April.

Julianne did great - this is her last year as a cloverbud. Cloverbuds don't move on to the state competition. The county competitions are for practice to get used to the format and to help learn what needs to be studied for the next year. The cloverbuds aren't placed in the competition. They do get to pick a participation ribbon.

Isabel is a junior. She came in 3rd place for the Hippology competition and 1st place for the Horse Bowl competition. Off to Western Massachusetts in April we go!

Isabel's first blue ribbon

Catherine is a senior. She came in 2nd place for Hippology and 1st place for Horse Bowl. Good thing the state competition for the junior and senior teams are the same weekend in the same place!

Lucas displaying Catherine's ribbons



checking out the results


WooHoo!

We are very proud of how well the girls did Saturday. They have studied hard for this.

Now all we have to do is hope the weekly practices for each team for each competition will not have me trying to get 2 girls to 4 locations at 4 different times.

I love this time of year!