Down on the farm

During her interview process, we learned that my now new coworker, Nicole spends the better part of her day as a farmer! She, her husband and her still-very-German mother live about 11 miles out of town on a ten acre farm. Since her niece and nephew loved the farm so much, she thought it would be fun to have Gideon and Hannah visit, too.

Going out to see the animals

The "gobble gobble chickens" as Hannah calls them

Chicken pen #1

Apparently chickens like apples

Here comes...

...the piggy (a.k.a. Amelia)!


Collecting the eggs


Gidders was amazed at all the different colored eggs

Miracle of miracles... Gideon pets a dog! ("Tripper.")


Nicole's favorite chicken, Gracie


One of three "guard" dogs on the farm, Hector. Graham's favorite.


Cruisin' the farm with one of my students from Kenya, Kate who visits/helps out on the farm almost every weekend



Feeding the cows "cow cookies"


Duckies! Big duckies!


Feeding the chickens in pen #3


Nicole has about 200+ chickens whose eggs she sells as her business. Apparently "the girls" hadn't been laying due to the cold weather, but once it warmed up, she was inundated! She gave us about 3-1/2 dozen to take home, but said she gave her sister 30 dozen and still couldn't fit them all in her storage fridge.

The geese were roaming free that day, and the funniest part of the day was when Gideon and Hannah came running around the corner with terror on their faces. Then about five feet behind them were the geese running and squawking like crazy. It was hilarious!