Sunday September 13 - A Day on the Farm

Today was surely one of the highlights of our trip. We started off the day being so lucky, Grandma made us buttermilk biscuits and gravy for breakfast, it was SO good.

We powered up Grandma and Grandpa's four wheel drive, and went for a drive around the farm. The farm is separated into four areas, the hay meadow, the house part, the pasture with the pond, and then a third pasture has all the farming equipment. We drove through the part of the pasture with the pond, and then wound our way through the hay meadow. We decided to 'hunt' cows, and found about a dozen of them spending the warm morning in the cool shade. Unlike Grandma's previous cows, these particular bovines don't chase ATV's (One of the creapiest experiences of my life the last time I was here on an ATV was being chased by 8 cows thinking I had food for them!), and instead just kind of stared at us. We didn't get too close as many of them had calves, and we didn't want to make them mad! We then went through to the house part of the farm, and Sean tried to see how fast he could make the ATV go. I thought we were going to die. Sean used to have ATV's and needless to say is much more comfortable on them.

Uncle David and his wife Angie, and their two daughters arrived just after 3 pm. Uncle David is actually closer to my age than my dad's, just 11 years older than me, so we had a lot of fun catching up about issues that we are both experiencing, home improvements, going back to school, buying a house, etc. Grandma made a GIGANTIC dinner (I can see where Aunt Debbie gets it!), we had pulled pork, potato salad, coleslaw, and about 5 different kinds of BBQ sauce including the one Grandpa made last night (Whoo Hoo!). Dinner was absolutely wonderful!

After dinner Uncle David, his 3 year old daughter Jessie, Sean and I went out to the fishing pond to see what was there. And by fishing I really mean that Uncle David taught Sean and I how things were done, and could barely fish himself because he was so busy helping out Sean, Jessie and I. We had a wonderful time catching blue fin, big mouth bass, Croppie and cat fish. Two fish actually broke the line because they were SO big, approximatly 28 inches, our little lines couldn't handle it. Uncle David even hooked one that was more than 36 inches long, and it broke the line above the bobber. We laughed as the bobber went around the whole pond, being dragged by the one that got away. We could see the bobber go around from one side of the pond to the other for over an hour =).

Uncle David and family headed home, and Grandma, Grandpa, Sean and I rounded out the evening with some wonderful peach cobbler and the Lord of the Rings.