NORA SOULE: “My name is Nora Soule. I am 9 year’s old,” and from Pownal. “I’m showing my lamb for junior showmanship and I am showing my lamb for fitting, and fitting is clean; showmanship is about how well you can show your sheep. I started last year. My mom had always wanted to do 4H when she was little so she said this would be a great thing for you to try, so I signed up. It’s a (4-H) sheep club.”

These are her animals that she shows: “We have a farm but I am in charge of the sheep with my sister. We have horses, we have cows, we have chickens and meat birds and baby laying hens, and then we’ve got sheep. And we have turkeys too. We don’t sell our beef but we do sell our meat birds and our turkeys,” on Remember When Farm.

Participating in 4-H, “I like the fact that it’s a great chance for you to earn things and get the experience of showing sheep.”

Holding the sheep up against her leg as the judge circled, “It’s to keep them still so when the judge comes and feels its backbone and ribs, it keeps it from jumping out of your arms.” The showmanship is “kind of easy” for her, but said the fitting is probably the most challenging, “because we have the wool breed and wool breed, you have to look in the fleece to pick out the hay and stuff, and it’s kind of hard. I’m competing in showmanship, feeding, fitting, pair, yearling ewe, and breed.

“We go to almost every fair except for Fryeburg,” Soule said, for the sheep competitions. Wednesday, “I got one (blue ribbon) for the breed class, I got a trophy for showmanship with another Rosette Ribbon, and I got another first place ribbon for the pair, then I got one for the fitting.”

“I love being around animals. I think animals is one of the best things that ever happened to this world, yes.”