The Crabb Family: Traveling with Goats and Lambs...

The Titus County Fair has come and gone for another year. Jeffery faithfully served again as the goat and lamb committee superintendent for the livestock shows and sale. It was a fun-filled, busy, dusty, dirty week complete with plenty of delicious fried fair foods and wayyy overpriced lemonade! There were 21 goats in the show this year and only 7 lambs. All of the kids did a good job. I enjoy being J's assistant and getting to interact with lots of super kids. Never would have thought that I would be right there lining up FFA kids with their respective animals and sending them into the show ring...but life is funny that way...and oh so good.

At the conclusion of the Livestock Auction and Sale Saturday there were 15 goats and 4 lambs that were to be 'bought back' or in other words, sold to a person who will essentially send them in the way of a slaughter house sooner rather than later. I know...kinda sad. Anyhow, these animals had to be delivered to Oklahoma on Sunday and J and I got to make the delivery. So Saturday night these lucky 19 animals spent the night in our driveway, in the trailer obviously, awaiting the trip to Oklahoma. They were actually pretty quiet through the night. Some folks told us that they would probably cry all night, but I didn't hear much of that. We felt kinda bad because the trailer was pretty yucky after several hours of confinement in a small space, but we really had no option until we were able to unload. We left Sunday after Sunday School and headed to the farm of a nice man named Tamen in Colbert, OK with the animals in tow. It was a fun weekend. The livestock end of the fair is always a lot of work but always fun and I enjoy helping J and helping the kids out.