Saturday, July 11, 2009

Is this how you sell small wind turbines?

Kelley and I headed up to Briggsdale, CO today to participate as a sponsor at the "Briggsdale Classic". The "classic" is a youth livestock show which is sponsored by an agricultural radio station, named "The Barn". The producer of "The Barn", Brian Allmer, is shown with me below. I met Brian earlier this week at his farm to talk about putting a wind turbine on his site. He thought it would be wise for me to attend the "classic" and promote the Hummer wind turbines there.
Needless to say, this was a new type of experience for me. For Kelley, it was like going back to her youth as a 4-H member.

It was a pretty small event. The city of Briggsdale is pretty small too, but people came from all over CO and WY to have their children participate. Here is the "show ring" where the children showed their goats, lambs and cows.

I was stationed about 40 ft from the show ring, strategically located next to the concessions area. Every 30 minutes of so, Brian (from "the Barn") would announce the on-site sponsors. There were 2 of us. A "tack" shop (which sells farm supplies, livestock feed, animal grooming stuff, etc) and Renewable Options and Investments (ROI a.k.a. me). Each time Brian did his anouncement about ROI, he would add a bit more "color" to the announcement...

Kelley spent a bit of time painting outside.


After the "classic" we headed out to explore a bit. This was a beautiful, old-fashioned wind mill we passed.
And this was a beautiful, modern, wind turbine farm we passed.


There we some interesting formations on the prarie known as the Pawnee Buttes.


And finally, we couldn't resist, taking this shot.

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