On the road to the TULSA STATE FAIR 2 of 5

Day 2 - Thursday
Alarm at 5:30
Downstairs at the hotel at 6:00.
Eat breakfast.
Realize that we didn't have to be there quite so early.
Leave at 6:45.
Pull all heifers out, feed them, and then spot wash them.
Other half of team cleans bedding straw and dumps wheelbarrow loads.
Set out fresh hay.
Let heifers dry on clean bedding straw.
Clip heifers when dry.
(Cows arrive from the dairies after their morning milking just as we finish clipping the last heifer.)
Unload cows into the wash rack.
Wash.
Let them dry on clean straw.
Clip all cows clean.  No belly hair.  No top lines. No udder hair.
Lunch around 3:30.
Watch for poop all day long.
My mom volunteers to stay all night in the barn and watch for poop while Ms. Jennings (our 4-H/FFA sponsor) clips top lines and udders.
We feed and water.  We leave around 11 P.M. to go to the hotel.