When Pirate Monkeys Play "Fair"...

Everyone wins.

Mario Girl & One-Eyed-Jack joined 4-H this yr. & showed off their piratey monkey skills at the county fair.



Mario Girl showing her smiley skirt. She got a blue ribbon in construction, & a blue ribbon in modeling for this one of a kind fashion piece.


She modeled this storybook summer dress winning a blue in modeling, a purple in construction, meaning it went to state, & a $100 scholarship for most creative construction.





This is Oreo but not the cookie kind you can eat.
It's the bunny kind that you can eat; if it wasn't so dang cute.
Mario Girl won 4th in Showmanship, & 1st in her class. Apparently this Oreo is a good mini dutch specimen, except for one little tiny freckle on her nose. She is also a good breed for showmanship 'cuz they are so mellow. Which explains why she has not killed over during any of our frightful rival pirate raids. You know like when the neighbor's dogs come over & bark under her cage.


This is Goldie. Mario Girl showed her in open class & won like last place. She still got $2 for it though.


Mario Girl also entered 6 pictures 2 of which made purple, the others got blue. She entered brownies that got a blue ribbon, & a widget thingy that got a red ribbon.
All purple ribbons went to state fair!!!



One-Eyed-Jack entered Totoro the mighty cat in the fair & won blue ribbons for him. The seas where a little rocky that day so the pictures are blurry from all the rocking back & forth of the ship. The Capt'n is going to try & finagle something up to post later.

He entered Aspen the prickly cannonball and got these nice plaques for him. I think he got ribbons too but I don't remember.


He also entered a lego mindstorm robot that he got for his birthday getting a purple ribbon. He also entered a widget thingy getting a red ribbon for that. Note that his one purple ribbon also went to state fair.

They are pretty excited about the ribbons they got. Next year they want to put more in the fair for 4-H & for open class. There is loot to be got at the county fair & this year was just the beginning...



As for the Capt'n & I, we plundered people by selling the magical candy no one can resist!!!!!
COTTON CANDY

We pirates & monkeys have been busy pillaging again, ARGG!!

Catch up:

One-Eyed-Jack was promoted to the next level of pirate school. I am not so sure that I want him to be getting older. 9th grade people! 9th GRADE!!! None of the pictures turned out :(


Sulfur, geysers & grizzly bears OH MY!! We tried to pillage Yellowstone National Park, but the rain got in our way. We sailed through & pillaged Jackson Hole.
On our sail through the majestic park we saw a grizzly bear, lots of bison, stopped a lot to look at geysers & hot springs.


The Capt'n wore his kilt which brought about some great reactions of people around us. Some people commented that they liked it, others gave glares of disapproval, while others tried to just not look. We like to walk behind him when he wears it so that we can see & hear peoples reactions. It makes for great entertainment.




We sailed around our home port taking pictures of the flooding that resulted from the massive cloud bursts we had during the 5th month of the pirate calendar. Pirates & monkeys like flooding; it tickles our hearts with giddiness.

Happy Birthday Mario Girl

As you may know Mario Girl turned 9 recently. To celebrate she had friends over on Saturday for a party. They made their own individual pizzas, watched G-force, and ate cupcakes that Zoe made(all of which I took no pictures of). On her birthday she got a guinea pig cage & a guinea pig. This animal has been living in her school class as a pet for most of the year & they love each other very much. Her name is Goldie.



I was going to put a short video of Goldie making sounds, but once again blogger has failed me.