4:00 am. .  . up to finish last minute chores before guests arrive (shavings down in the calf barn and for milk-a-cow, feed samples out, etc).
 
5:30. . . workers begin to arrive: FFA students to help with parking (our front hay field, with its second crop finished, turns into the parking lot); workers for the pancake breakfast (our tool shop and machine shed turn into kitchen and eating area); workers to serve ice cream (our garage turns into an ice cream parlor); other volunteers are here to give out information at the milking parlor, in the milk house, at the heifer barn, and I’m out in the calf barn with my sister.