Finishing Strong

I only have two weeks left of interning, two weeks! When I first began, I knew it would be a long summer full of work, but also lots of fun. Now here we are at the end and I feel like I've just started. Summers in Extension, I've come to learn, are some of the busiest times of the year. In Estill County, July is one of our busiest months. It may be the end of the summer, but our work is nowhere near done.

We begin July with a holiday, but that doesn't mean that Extension takes time off. In Estill County, county fair was just beginning. The fourth of July was used as a day to get our fair barn ready for all of the entries that came flooding in the next day. Tuesday was entry day and we had over 900 entries in 4-H alone! Needless to say our fair barn was filled. During county fair we had a variety of livestock shows, including our beef show, cupcake wars, and even a talent contest. It was certainly a busy week!

The week before county fair was a fun-filled week as well. We began by taking a group of our kids to Louisville to blow their own glass ornament at Flame Run and to visit the American Printing House for the Blind Museum. The rest of the week was spent conducting workshops for county fair. Over the course of the week 9 separate workshops were held in our office. This made for lots of fun, lots of fair entries, and lots of clean-up so that we could get set up for the next workshop. Extension is non-stop!

After surviving those weeks and the past few conducting my summer feeding program we are now getting ready to for summer to wind down. We still have a cooking camp to come as well as open houses for our local schools and the finale of the summer feeding program. We will also be welcoming our new FCS agent at the beginning of August. So little time and so much to do!