Lesson 862: Rodeo

Hello, Readers.

It's time to Cowboy up!

The school year is underway.

The first leaves are beginning to change.

I've been looking up the meanings and origins

of cowboy words this week.

I've recently become interested in westerns--

movies,

books,

and the like.

The phrase cowboy up is intended to be motivational.

encouraging a person to embark on a difficult task.

This is nice because Eloise loves 

motivational speech

and

difficult tasks.

Like growing flowers.

That's a difficult task for this former Black Thumb.

Now I consider mine to be a grayish green.

I stopped making excuses about my gardening failures

and completed the Master Gardening class

through the Penn State Extension.

Now I can grow flowers a bit better

because I learned from the experts.

Even with all my newfound knowledge,

I'm still not as good as them:

They know how to make things grow!

So, I'm a first year gardener

and a 31 year teaching veteran!

Me and school--

we go way back!

I've had 48 First Days!

This time of year is one of my favorites

because it is County Fair time.

There is nothing more storybook for me

than going to a fair

on a warm, breezy,

late summer evening.

We went out to neighboring Wattsburg 

for the Fair this week.

Little did we know--

there WAS a rodeo!

We've never been to one before!

Look!

The rodeo was really fun,

and we will definitely go to another one sometime.

I then gravitated to my personal Fair favorites:

Prize Pickles

Displays and Dahlias

I love a good coloring contest!

And always the animals--

farm animals are my very favorite!

Cows

Goats

I cried like a two year old

because I wanted this miniature donkey named Steve

so badly!

Mary and Family stole all of the attention in the barn.

And most of all,

I loved this horse

and I'm stealing her name for a future pet!

 

Now it's time to end my story for this week

and slide into dreamland,

where I will have a great big barn

for my donkey named Steve,

my piglets who will never become bacon

and a pet named Story.

Homework for this weekend:
What pet should I get that fits the name Story?

Eloise