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Thankfully, the fair is over for another year. But, I still have a rant to get off my chest. The Floriculture Show was Thursday. The kids (8 and 9) and I got up early and started cutting flowers for the arrangements and specimens for the show. They have an adult division and a Junior division. As usual, I spend so much time helping the kids with their arrangements, I don't get any entered. They each entered five arrangements and several specimens. The rules state the flowers must be ones you have raised, so we were out on the porch and in the yard stripping flowers for the arrangements. In the miniature category - they used these tiny flower pots and used Sprengeri fern for the filler. DD used flowers off the wax plant (Hoya carnosa) in the dining room and DS used flowers off the Crown of Thorns (Euphorbia) on the porch. I went in yesterday to work the 4-H building and found both of their arrangements had been disqualified. On the comment card the judge wrote - Must use real flowers! What kind of an idiot flower judge can't tell the difference between real and fake flowers!!!
I have had my rant and feel a little better now. I have no problem if my children lose fairly, but to lose because of this just makes my blood boil.
On the positive side - DS got Best of Show with a rose and DD won a couple of ribbons too and a third in the Home Ec show.
I have had my rant and feel a little better now. I have no problem if my children lose fairly, but to lose because of this just makes my blood boil.
On the positive side - DS got Best of Show with a rose and DD won a couple of ribbons too and a third in the Home Ec show.