Show Pig Sunday

This afternoon, Kristy and I took Bailee and Ryan to the farm of one of my former students and show pig raiser, Matt Burba.

There, we picked up Bailee's first show pig: a sweet little Duroc gilt that Bailee named Sparkle. Bailee is in third grade this year so she finally became old enough to join 4H. As is customary in our little town, if you are in 4H, you show a pig.

So here we go...

Early in my ag teaching career I messed with show pigs a lot. However, the second half of my sixteen teaching years, I didn't mess with the show program much. Instead, I was in charge of all of our competitive FFA contests. Therefore, I have some catching up to do.

No worries, though. This is going to be fun for all of us.