It's not ALL Work....

This past week I had the pleasure of attending the 2^nd annual “Milk Lovers Ball.” This is a new event that the Tri-Country Holstein club has put on to raise money for various scholarships and events. Last year they raised $4000+ for farmers that suffered from Hurricane Irene. This year there were two women that were very involved in the agriculture community that died suddenly and unexpectedly over the last year. One woman died from a very aggressive brain tumor and the other from spinal meningitis. The money raised at this year’s event is being used to create two one year scholarships in each of these women’s name.

The agriculture community is a tight-knit community, so it’s really great for clients, nutritionists, financial lenders, veterinarians and other people from various aspects of the agriculture community to get together and socialize.  We had a wonderful dinner and music from a live band. There was also a raffle with lots of wonderful gift baskets filled with gift certificates for golf, dinner, hairdos, jewelry, wine and more!!! The best part was I actually won one! (I never win anything, so I was quite excited!) 

Gift Basket I won

 

It may seem weird that as a professional you become friends with your clients. In the agriculture community, this is quite common. Everyone has the same interests and love for an industry that works so hard for so little.  We all work together to achieve the same goal. So, maybe no gory pictures or heroic-sounding stories this week. Instead we showered, shaved, maybe donned a little make-up and traded out our barn boots and coveralls for dancing shoes! Just a taste of what life outside of being covered in manure, blood and guts, is like!
 

Myself and Friends