The Huon Valley Show

15th November 2008

Well it is that time again for the Huon Valley Show. Apparently it is probably one of the most popular country shows in the south of Tassie. I could believe it! There were quite a number of people and about 10,000 were expected for the one day event.

Like any other show there were rides for the kids, and the adults, show bags, lots of junk food to eat and the normal things like animal judging and arts and crafts. We headed straight for the dodgem cars first as when we went to the Hobart show we forgot to go on them and the kids had been hounding us ever since, so we promised that we would go on them next time we went to a show.

This was our second time to the show as we went last year but of course we did not know anyone so we pretty much saw everything. This year, a year on, every second person that we bumped into we knew from somewhere and that is what we came to Tassie for. Everyone is friendly and it is like a huge country town. Consequently it took us nearly a whole day to see everything as by the time we stopped and talked for a while we kept getting distracted.

The weather was ok, it was forecast for Mountain snow the night before and that it did apparently. In Tassie you have to learn to wear layers because one minute you are cold because of the rain and the wind are upon you and the next, you are hot because the sun is out. That is OK though, it is not that bad. As I am typing this though in the comfort of home, it is bucketing down with rain as per usual, which is definitely what we need so we cannot complain about that. I don't know whether it like that back home, but hopefully it is as SA needs it badly, along with the other states.

The kids had a ball looking at the animals, especially the goats, because they can relate to them now, they also liked the alpacas and thought that they were pretty funny. I learned today that we can make some decent money from breeding goats, they were selling for $350.00 unregistered, or $450.00 registered. Tao and Kai said that one day they would like to bring a goat to the show and show it and see if they can get a ribbon for it. They are really turning into country kids, which is great to see. At least they know where milk comes from, infact everytime Kai pours his milk into his bowl in the morning he asks if it comes from Emma (our friends cow that we were getting milk from a while ago.) I hope that the goats are liking this weather, they have a new house now, as the babies were kicking their mum Jill out her house the other day which meant that she was getting wet all the time.

Overall, it was an excellent day and we will definitely make a yearly event. Maybe next year we might have something to contribute to it. I have also been thinking very seriously of some business ideas that we could do for the farm and one of those would involve possibly being at the show next year. See how we go......