the rest of my pictures and tales from the farm

When you last left us, we were down on the farm.
And hungry.
But, fear not!



It was well covered.
Do you know how many pieces of french toast fit on that grill?
Two pounds of bacon fit on that grill...



Farms make people very hungry.



Look.
Eggs AND french toast.
A first for me.

All those animals get hungry too...



and you might have to go outside and make noises so they will come and have some pellets. Some of them are going 'on vacation' soon, you see, and so they have some pellets to fatten them up a little as the grass has been mostly eaten and there hadn't been enough rain.

You get the pellets (they ARE organic - sheesh!) from this thing.



I'm sure it has some kind of a special name. But I call it the thing that holds the feed. The feed-thing.
And don't forget to bring some carrots from the house for the goat, who's name is Fritz.
Fritz can be a little pushy if you don't bring him a little something -
He pushed Youngest into the electric fence once, and he's got those damn scary eyes.
But look!
Here he is winking at Badger...



...or he has some disgusting eye muck, I don't know. There's all KINDS of disgusting stuff you have to do with/to animals to keep them healthy on an organic farm. Blechy eyes and noses and muddy feet and pooping. It's all too much for me.
I like them at a distance.



Get your hair outta your eyes!



The orange ones are a new kind.
And there is a new dog too...also orange-y. And FULL of energy.



Here she is ripping her frisbee to shreds and eating it.

That's the thing about farm life, beautiful and harsh...
one minute you are admiring the grapevines -



- and the next you are moving cows out of the south field so that you can shoot coffee cans with the bb rifle.



Life on the farm is like the dining room table seen here



a lotta gin and some ammo.


Or like a purple suede chair (which Youngest wants to marry)



with a hitching post on the back of it...



But there wasn't much time for lounging.
We had miles to go before we slept.

We took our leave -



And not a single unnerving message was received from the dashboard of the car...



unless you count this one -




And, a word to the wise:
don't EVER look at something like this



and say something inane, like: sheesh, good thing THAT'S going in the OTHER direction, huh?
Because it WILL COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU.