With another season comes yet another seasonal job. This time Liz is working at a farm. We don't think it's an ordinary kind of farm. They have animals and pumpkins and everything you would expect...but then there's all of the extra stuff.
For example:
The Hillbilly Hen House. The hens you see actually talk. They tell bad chicken jokes and sing farmer songs. When school groups come they tell all about what it takes for a chicken to make an egg.
"Why did the chicken cross the road, roll in the dirt, and then cross the road again?"
"Because he was a dirty double crosser!"
There are also lots of fun things for kids to do like climb a fort made of hay, jump in a pit full of hay, slide down giant slides, pick pumpkins, and play in a giant box full of corn.
You know we had to have our turn! Liz said she was aching to get in it since the first time she saw it. Some corn snuck into her pants while we were rollin' around. Fortunately it just shakes right out. We thought the corn would be hard and uncomfortable but it was great! It felt so good. Probably the closest we will ever get to swimming with Liz.
One of Liz's jobs is to drive the train. It's really just a tractor disguised as a train. The "cars" are barrels made to look like animals. Our favorite is the turkey even though we didn't get to ride in that one. The train isn't so bad - it's smelly but about the warmest spot on the farm when the days are cold.
After we took school kids for a ride on the train today, it was our job to show them the animals in the petting zoo area. We started with the easiest ones to catch. In fact, Liz put some of them in her pockets! each kid got a chance to hold one (carefully, of course).
The kids were given small handfuls of food to feed the animals in the petting zoo. Some animals were hungrier than others...
This is Baby, she's huge (and always hungry). She makes all sorts of funny little grunting noises and her tiny little tail wags vigorously while she eats.
And then there is Suzette, the llama.
Can you see the little boy with the red hair and the camouflage coat? In about five minutes only me, him, and another farm worker will be with the llama and Suzette is going to sneeze right on his head! It was so gross! He didn't seem upset about it though - just thought it was funny. That's because he couldn't see the top of his head like we could!
There are also sheep, a calf named Frank, and a mini-pasture full of naughty bunnies who keep escaping.
"No naughty bunny here. Nope. No, sir. Don't know what you could be talkin' about."
We are sure we will be going back before the season is over. There is just so much to do there!
