On Wednesday, I went to Empire Farm Days up at Seneca Falls. Our good friends' daughter ( and my grandson's girl friend) had been part of the 14th Cornell Junior Dairy Leaders program and they were giving a presentation and receiving their certificates. Our husbands were both haying, so we did a road trip/busman's holiday and went up to get her and one other girl from the area. The trip up was the first time that we've gotten to talk all summer, so it went fast. The presentations were good, but they went long. Robin and I walked around the show while the girls were getting their stuff from the van they rode up in. There were a lot of oversized tractors and tillage and harvesting machines, robotic milking systems, we both signed up to win a Morton building, took pictures of the tiny antique equipment, drank a lot of iced tea. The ride home was pleasant - I got to pick on Bobbi about Tom and she got to pick on both her mother and me. The other girl will be going to Cornell in two weeks. She is the one who nominated my granddaughter for the job of FFA president, even though Jess is only a Sophomore. Kelsey was the president, and she said that Jess was the only one that could do the job. Jess isn't so sure but I think, like Kelsey, that she'll do fine. Bobbi is the president of her FFA in the next tiny school over. Tom has no interest in farming, but he does like Bobbi.
For one of their field trips the Jr. Dairy Leaders went to World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin and visited several large dairy farms while they were there. Bobbi really thought WI was much more dairy friendly than NY.
Thursday, the little kids and I 'set off' our volcano. It didn't erupt in a spectacular manner, but it had good flow. We used vinegar and red soda water for the effects. Maybe next time, we'll go with Mentos and red pop.
We've had a little more than 1/2 an inch of rain and temperatures for today at least are in the 60s - a bit different from earlier in the week.
