as a Hand-out to for some businesses prior to the Fair this coming week-
I thought it was pretty good-
The Short Biography of a Market Hog
By Youngest File
About the author:
Youngest File is 15 and is going into her sophomore year of high school. She is the vice president of her local 4-H group Lakeview Livestock. This is her 5th year in 4-H and will be soon parting with her 4th market hog, Tweedle-dee.
Tweedle-dee was born on a small hog farm in the beautiful Flathead valley, locally owned and operated by Ken Louden. Mr. Louden always takes good care of his animals. Tweedle-dee was very happy growing up in his pig barn with her brothers and sisters.
One sunny day in April, when Tweedle-dee only weighed 45 pounds, some people came by to look at her along with some of the other hogs her age. A few of the pigs were picked up and moved into different trucks. Some of the pigs were scared, they squealed loudly and made a lot of noise. Then some one picked up Tweedle-dee and moved her into a big white truck with one of her brothers Tweedle-dum. Tweedle-dee didn’t squeal, she was a brave little pig. Soon she learned she had a new owner, Youngest File, a young 4-H-er.
Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum were soon settled in their new home. Now they lived in a big pen on the top of a hill, just south of Kalispell. Youngest buys special food for them from their old owner Mr. Louden. He mixes special grains for them that along with good exercise will help Tweedle-dee become a good market hog, big, strong, and tasty.
Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum are silly pigs. They like to root in the dirt and roll in the mud. Sometimes when they run they bark like big furless dogs. On cold days they lie close together and cover themselves with warm straw. They chew on everything, sticks, rocks, basketballs…sometimes they even chew on Youngest.
Soon Tweedle-dee will go to the fair with Youngest. There she will meet many new people and hogs. Tweedle-dee will go to a special auction at the fair were generous businesses will buy hogs from 4-H-ers. Many of them even donate the hogs to charities and food banks to help people who don’t have any food. Youngest says some of the most generous businesses in the country must be in the Flathead.
The money Jenae gets from the auction will help her go to collage. youngest is good at science, so her mother wants her to be a doctor. Her dad thinks she should be a lawyer, he says the world could use some better ones. Youngest isn’t sure what she wants to be yet, but she knows she wants to experience as much of the world as she can, to continue learning as long as she lives and to help as many people as she is able to along life’s road.
After the auction, Tweedle-dee will go to pig heaven. There she will join Juliet, Mona, and Kevina in the everlasting mud hole under a rainbow and a bright blue sky.
Northwest Energy 2009, Smith Barney 2008, Flathead Electric 2007
Thank you for your generous support in the past
Tweedle-dee will go to a special auction at the fair were generous businesses will buy hogs from 4-H-ers.
And the misspell of college later on. Not being critical but if she has not printed up a lot of those then you might suggest some editing and a spell check before the final print.
The 4H is a very valuable program and one that enjoys a lot of popularity in Oklahoma. It teaches kids responsibility and gives them goals. Congrats to Young File and I'll send her a note if Tweedle winds up as bacon on my grill.
Deral
Youngest File is certainly taking a proactive approach to her future. I really like seeing young people with a positive attitude.....keep encouraging her. 🙂
Does Youngest File have a problem when she finally has to let the hog she raised go to well...the place where they send the hog to Hog Heaven?? :angel:
Very well written, though! Sounds like she's a very responsible young lady. Good job, "Older File". 😉 :good:
We just finished our county fair here. My daughter didn't have any animals make the auction but had a successful showing anyway. Kind of funny story. The last day when everyone is packing up their animals to take home or send them to packer, I am standing there watching animals moved into different pens and such. One girl about 11 or 12 says to me why do those goats and sheep have a stripe painted on them. I told her those were going to the packer. Her: "what is the packer". Me: "the packer is where they process the meat." Her: delayed reaction, then "you mean they are going to kill all of them." Yeah that was kind of one of those "doh" moments. I guess she learned a life lesson that day.
> Yeah that was kind of one of those "doh" moments. I guess she learned a life lesson that day.
The day I first learned "that" lifes lesson, I bawled my eyes out!!! :'(
(I am such a wuss when it comes to animals!)
I was a little kid and I vowed to never eat meat again so I could save all of the animals. That lasted until my next visit to In-n-Out burger. :-$
I liked her abstract uses and concepts
I thought it was great... and thanks for leaving the mis-spelled word. It added to the general sense of the story.
Now, if I ate pig, I'd go get a ham sandwitch!
(I'm allergic to something in pig)
🙂
Nate
