What A Showman

On Friday, after school and work, Les and I headed to Graham to watch Cody show his two pigs at the Young County Livestock Show. He did a great job.

With his first pig (Petunia), Cody got third in his class with his Yorkshire breed. With his second pig (Porkchop), he got fifth in his class in the cross-breed. They sold the second pig and brought the first pig home because the breeder wants to buy her back to use her to breed.

Leslye sat with Mom, Dad, Tami, Jami, Angela and one of our friends, Amy, while I mostly walked around and also tried to keep up with Jaden, Jaxon and Sidney (Justin and Angela's little one). Justin helped Jeff and Cody with the pigs.

After the show, I helped Jeff pack up the box of supplies while Justin and Jeremy (Amy's husband and Justin's good friend) went and hooked up the lights and the trailer. Once they got that done, there was a line to load the pigs so we thought we would circumvent the line and take the pig through the cattle runs. No problem right?

The boys moved the trailer while Jeff and I went to take Petunia through the back door and to the runs. Getting her to the back pin where the door was was pretty easy, but then she decided she didn't want to go outside. We'd almost get her there, and then she'd find away to get around us and back to the starting point of the area. Thanks to Justin, Jeremy, Cody and one of his friends, we finally got her through the door. I grabbed a loose gate and set up a fake fence while Cody and his friend did the same. The other three grabbed boards and pushed and pulled Petunia to the door, we lowered it, and then they got her to the trailer as I pulled the supply box outside.

Whew... it was a lot of work, and I am sure everyone around wondered what in the world we were doing since she was squealing like nobody's business. I am sure it was pretty funny to watch, too. I then realized, I know why I never showed growing up - other than can you really see my mom and dad helping Tami, Jami and I with animals and sitting at stock shows- now that's a funny thought. Of course, with grandchildren, it's a whole other story. They have done it with all three of Jeff and Tami's.

We all went to eat and then Les and I drove home. We got home around midnight, and then I got up and got ready to head to San Angelo for Tarleton basketball games.

We had fun hanging with family, and we are very proud of Cody! What a showman, and what a nephew!