2013 Pecan Festival Display
Putting out the flag at the Pecan Festival, Louis Robidoux Nature Center, Riverside, CA, November 9, 2013.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
Some of the booths at the Pecan Festival.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
More booths at the Pecan Festival.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
More booths with the pecan groves in the back where visitors were able to pick pecans from the ground.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
More booths at the Pecan Festival.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
Lots of games for the kids.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
The hedgehog game with stuffed hedgehogs that the kids tossed a ring around to win a prize.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
The Gold Fish Toss game where kids could toss a ball into a bowl and win a gold fish.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
AFRMA’s booth at the Pecan Festival, November 9, 2013, at the Louis Robidoux Nature Center, Riverside, CA.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
The display rats (same as last year), a Black Berkshire Standard and his Russian Blue Variegated brother. Rats owned and bred by Karen Robbins, Karen’s Kritters. It was warm and sunny this day so the rats didn’t stay in their tissue box house.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
A Blue Point Siamese Standard female mouse peeking out of the hay (was nibbling on bread), owned and bred by Karen Robbins, Karen’s Kritters.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
A light Lilac/Silver Self Standard female mouse, owned and bred by Karen Robbins, Karen’s Kritters.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
The Black Berkshire Standard male rat eating a snack of banana, owned and bred by Karen Robbins, Karen’s Kritters.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
A Seal Point Siamese Standard female mouse taking a quick drink of water, owned and bred by Karen Robbins, Karen’s Kritters.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
Pecan Festival visitors checking out the rats and mice. Geri Hauser and Larry Ferris and his dog Olive helping out at AFRMA’s booth. We were under the huge oak tree and were in the shade all day.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
The Boy Scouts of America, Troop 8’s booth.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
The Boy Scouts of America, Troop 8, teaching the kids how to use a forge and anvil. They were also burning pictures onto wood for the visiting kids.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
The Boy Scouts of America, Troop 8, teaching kids how to throw a hatchet.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
There were 3 miniature horses at the Pecan Festival for the kids to pet.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
One of the miniature horses that wandered over by our booth.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
Spinning booth with some of the felt hats that he made.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
SCAMPP - Southern Calif. Assoc. for Minature Potbellied Pigs had a booth there this year and had several pigs to show off to the public.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
One of the pigs the kids could pet from SCAMPP - Southern Calif. Assoc. for Minature Potbellied Pigs.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
The Mary Vagle Nature Center from Fontana brought 2 snakes (gopher & king) for people to touch and handle. This was the gopher snake being admired.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
For entertainment there were the folk dancers in the afternoon.
2013 Pecan Festival Display
Some of the folk dancers.