Milo

Well, some of the milo is ready to harvest. The chickens are so excited to get GOOD grain again. Yesterday we drove to Brush to meet Cara to pick up the twins and Ethan so they could come to the farm. It is too bad there isn't some way to package all the energy young children have. They are having a great time at the farm playing outside, feeding animals and gathering eggs. Today they got to see a combine up close. We get grain directly from the farmer's fields for our animals whenever possible. For milo we put our containers in the back of the truck and have the farmer load the grain directly into the back of the truck. The kids were having fun "hiding" in the containers in the back of the truck and then this big THING came over the top of them. A combine is a big machine! They got out of the truck and then their eyes got huge as they watched the milo come out of the combine and drop into the truck. But more fun than watching that was getting to walk around in the milo and scoop it out of the truck. Unfortunately, then they found out the big drawback to playing in milo...the dreaded itch! They were ready to take a bath and wash that itch off! They talked on the phone to their Momma tonight. The conversation included a discussion of when they should go back home. Three kids-three opinions. The compromise was to go home on Friday morning, so Evelyne and I will be making the trip to Brush again on Friday.