"Don't Look Now!

But you have a Posse of Blond Children following you around!" I was at the FFA farm the other day, when I saw my friend feeding her sheep. She quickly came up and alerted me to the situation. I looked behind me... it was true! I had taken my brother Obie, and some family friends on a walk down to see the FFA farm, and when we were walking, it did sort of look like a posse of blond children.

Here they all are. That's Obie posing on the front of the tractor, and then there is JJ, who is two, ready to drive. Lexi, with the sweet little smile and pink dress is four. Will, the explorer in the orange shirt and binoculars is seven, and Percy in the blue sweater and mischievous grin is nine. So that's where I was a couple afternoons ago, at the farm with my very own Posse of wonderful blond children. When my FFA advisor showed up to work on the rabbits, I tried to carefully herd them over the the far field. Apparently, my exciting suggestions "Let's go look at the mini horse in the field over there" were not very convincing. So my Advisor, seeing that we were headed that way, asked if I could feed that pony. Sure! I told her, knowing that this was the perfect moment to enlist some adorable young helpers! "Who wants to climb up and get some hay for the horse?" and "Who wants to push the wheel barrow" were much more appealing, so about five minutes later we were headed, albeit slowly, for the far field. By the time the horse had hay in it's feeder, had been hand fed quite a bit of hay, and had a full water dish, I had five happy kids. We headed back to the barn, (with several wheelbarrow rides along the way), parked the wheelbarrow, took a couple of pictures with the tractor, and raced straight home. All in all it was a fun afternoon, with animals, friends, and sunshine. What more could you need?

(O.K. FINE! Maybe we made one stop at the edge of the farm to jump in some jumbo (around 6 ft) piles of leaves on the way back.... And maybe we skipped part of the way home, but getting there is half the fun right!?!)