Well, I am back from 4-H multi-county Camp. It was cool. I had spent the night with Ricky and he drove us to the camp Tuesday morning. We got signed in when we got there and found our cabin. We ended up at the dance hall doing the flag ceremony because it started raining. After that we had hotdogs for lunch and got done in time for Cowboy olympics. We did stuff like cowpie throwing and the stick horse races. We had some cool workshops like “what is?” (which is like Jepordy) and “mule packing” (which is where you learn to pack mules for trips) The first night we ended with a dance after dinner. I had a blast and danced so much I lost count. I don’t even think I danced with the same girl twice. I never even asked a girl to dance but I kept getting asked. I have no idea why! We ended each night with Vespers. It was like little informational tid bits to end our day. The first night we learned to fold the flag and what every fold meant. The next day we were up early, had breakfast and were off to more workshops. We had a large one about shotgun saftey and we learned about our game warden and his job. We did littler workshops through out the day about tracking animals, putting together wagons, sand art and we even got to shot clay disks. Okay we got to try cause all I did was miss. The only thing I didn’t like was that due to medical reasons I didn’t get to play in the water games. Oh well, Ricky sat out with me and we got to chat awhile and laugh at everyone else. For dinner that night we had pizza and another dance. I think I danced more that night then on the first night and I still never got to ask a girl to dance. Then at Vespers we got to vote on our favorite camp councilors. My favorite didn’t win. Oh well, maybe next year. The last morning all we did was pack, clean up, eat breakfast and get gone.
While I was gone Mom had been busy pre-cutting some wood and wire. She didn’t even give me much of a break when I got home. We started putting things together like she wanted and I thought she was crazy. Then I saw why and what it all made and I got kind of excited. Check this out…
I now have a whole new cage system for my show birds. The pen in more open and I have alot more room. Tomorrow I am going to move in all my carriers to put on the top shelf and we are going to put together a new call duck pen with a run. I hope we don’t run out of time like we did tonight. I still have one pair of birds to move in.
And just for Adelaide100 here is a picture to give you an idea of the size of call ducks. The big duck is Huey and she is just 3 months old (she is a normal sized duck) and the little two in the cage are full grown call ducks. Aren’t they just the cutest things??? They look like regular ducks just smaller. I want Ms. Susie to get some for her farm too. She would just love them and they talk all the time.