Lavender Ridge

There's a pretty little lavender farm about an hour northwest of us, so Sam and I took a trip up there this week to check it out.  Sam loved the doggies, and I loved all the whimsical things there were on the farm to photograph!  We stayed for a couple of hours and enjoyed the quiet time in the country.  He did a great job using "zizzers" for the first time (with Mama's help) to cut the lavender, and carried the basket for me since I had my hands full, too.  We loved the animals there, especially the bunnies, and it was nice to cool down and have lunch at the picnic tables in the little forest with our doggie tour guides.

We stopped and had a snack at a downtown bakery located in one of the small towns we passed through on our way home, did some fabric shopping at their quilt shop, and dropped off a package at their post office.  We met lots of friendly people, too.  Sam was very chatty with the lady at the fabric shop and a man in line behind us at the post office!  He slept most of the way home - all that lavender-cutting and small-town folk-meetin' wore him out! 

 We had a great visit and plan to go back again sometime!

Heritage Homestead

I came here on a field trip once when I was little girl, and again with

my

first class over ten years ago.

Yesterday, I got to take Sam and that was the best trip of all! We went with our photography group and there were lots of great photo ops.

Sam loved everything - the chicks, horses, sheep and hens. He got so excited over the eggs, both the toy-eggs and the real eggs, that we found in the hen house. And he loved watching the tractor, throwing sticks in the creek, and learning how to jump on a hopscotch game.

 I think he like the red one-room schoolhouse the best, though! Doesn't he look like a model student?  Ha!  He didn't stay in that desk for long - he wanted to play the piano that was "like Granny Nell's"!

Grisham Farms

So

that's

how the piggies eat.

Sam and I had a great time at McKinney's Grisham Farm today, tossing bread to the goats, feeding milk to the little piggy, and just doing some general running-around.  I think Sam would make a pretty good little farm boy!

Farm Boy

We had a little taste of country-life last week.  Our animal-lover, Sam, had a blast!  We got to see, in person, many of the animals we've read and talked about at home like horses, goats and the best of all, a baby duck! Sam got to pet the fuzzy, downy duckling and just kept saying "duh! duh! duh!". We also took a hayride, planted some pumpkin seeds in real farm dirt, and fed baby goats.  Their chin whiskers sure do tickle!