Thursday, August 31, 2006

Fair Results


Some may think that this is a picture of the Grand Knight of the Klingville chapter of the Klu Klux Klan--but quite to the contrary. This is Genny "modeling" a Peruvian hat and poncho (made from llama wool) and a llama (not our's) at the Houghton County Fair to highlight the use of domestic animals for wool fabrics.

Genny also maintained the Gierke womenfolk dominance of poultry fitting and showing in Houghton County, gaining top honors for this as well as for her birds, culminating in the Matt Manderfield trophy for overall honors (an award her mother won a few years back).

Mike anchored the swine fitting and showing and his pig was the largest of the Fair, tipping the scales at a "svelte" 295 lbs. There is a monetary advantage of coming in furthest from 1st, however, because his is the last-chance pig at the auction, so the bidding was highly competitive, and given the pig's size, he made out like a bacon bandit.

1 Comments:

At 5:21 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nice hat, Gen!

Looks like Alex's gnome hat.

Nice going on the big pig, Mike!

What does llama taste like?

Tom Pink

 

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