A Donkey, A Goat and Some Hens

We live for field trips. 

Seriously. Field trips = good, good living. 

 One of the main reasons for schooling home style is to get out in the world and do some learning through living. 

Last week, our BFIAR book was Ask Mr. Bear, which was filled with farm animals.

We had a fun excuse to get up close and personal with some pigs and ponies.

What could be closer to perfection than a farm day in the fall? 

Answer: A farm with an art barn for rustic water coloring.

All play and no work, makes for lazy farmhands, so Farmer Sue put the girls on feed detail. 

Having earned their keep on the farm, our next treat was chick holding. 

With little furry creatures in hand, the looks on these little faces were priceless. 

Two ponies were kind enough to offer rides,

and some hens kind enough to leave treasures for finding. 

Claire makes fast friends wherever she goes. 

I'm thinking that we were made for farm life.  Nature and simple living are settling, don't you think?

Hay beneath your feet and a still warm egg in your hands, and the cares of the world melt away. 

This field trip gets an A+.

Fresh eggs to take home equal major bonus points.  

Farm Fresh Fun

You can't read a giant stack of farm books without
heading out to the country for a farm fresh good time.


It was a bovine bonanza of calf feeding, cattle wrangling/milking demos and the purchase of grass feed beef (Wait, did I just say that?!).

 Three chicks on a hayride is some kind of special. 

Our morning at the cattle farm was packed with learning and udder fun!


Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said,
"I think that I'll drink whatever comes out
of those things when I squeeze them?" 
~Bill Watterson