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Many of the category items were completed just in time for delivery to the show.
This year, the entries paid off for young Amanda. She won two blue ribbons, three red ribbons, a yellow for her braclet, sixth for her ornament as well as fourth for the pound cake.
Ryan Oyster, 11-year-old son of Evelyn and Jim Oyster of Castleton, entered the show with his pet sheep, Spot, for the first time.
“I was a little bit nervous,” he said, adding he has cared for his pet since it was purchased in early May. Since then he has feed, watered, bathed, clipped and played with the young animal.
“I didn’t think it would be this much work,” he said of his responsiblity with the animal, adding he would spend several hours a day with the animal and is quite attached to it now.
He ended up with fifth place for yearling ewe lambs.
A member of the Rappahannock 4-H Livestock Club, Ryan plans to keep his pet after the show, though many will sell their prize-winning animals.
Tiny Melissa Dixon, 9-year-old daughter of Cathy Dixon of Viewtown, entered for the first time as a 4H’er.
“Oh, I’ll do this next year, too,” she said rubbing a heifer’s face.
Melissa took home a first in pure bred simmentals, first in sembrah heifers and second in pure bred simmentals steers as well as champion in simmental heifers.
“I’m glad I don’t have to sell this off,” she said, adding that over the months of caring for the animals she has grown quite attached to them.
Mary Beth Williams, 12-year-old daughter of Tommy and Bonnie Williams of Flint Hill, has learned not to get too attached to the young lambs. Her first show ended in tears as one of her animals was led to the auction block.
“I cried and ran to the bathroom,” she said. The lamb was saved and now produces prize winning lambs herself.
Showing in pre-4-H shows, Mary Beth has entered several years and has spent hours preparing for the shows.
“Every year, I say I am not going to do it one more time,” she said, but as the early deadline for entries arrives, she finds herself in line again.
This year, Mary Beth took home third for beef steers, third in showmanship for lamb and first and third place for market lambs — as w'ell as ribbons for her sewing entries.
Mary Beth’s brother, Greg, 16, finds the show both educational and time-consuming.
His experience payed off this year as he collected a first for beef steer, second for beef steer, second in market lamb and seventh in market lambs shows.
“I really like it,” he admitted, saying sometimes the three-to-four hours a day required to care for the steers and lambs he enters is a bit much.
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