Monday on the farm...

Note: some of the pictures were not displaying on the web, so I am re-publishing Tuesday morning's post...

We've arrived at Patti's family's farm in Virginia and have Miss Doozie parked. Monday was our first full day on the farm; Carl has commented that folks pay big money for this kind of experience!

We got to feed the "bottle baby" during morning milking:

She seemed to think that both of us did an OK job in providing her milk, though seemed to think that it was NOT enough...

Later in the afternoon, Jimmy transferred the grain mixture over to the distribution container and made up the buckets of feed for the calves (teenagers) across the road...

We carried the buckets in the back of the pickup truck across the road to the calves there...

The calves were not sure about these substitute food delivery people...

 After Carl explained to them that we had credentials from the ILC driving a truck to Houston to get a food donation and delivering it back to Dallas, they decided to try the food that he delivered to the trough...

Meanwhile, Jimmy was moving round bales into a different area to make them easier to deliver to the mother cows and calves...

After supper, Carl had a bit of conversation with the chickens...

And then we enjoyed the beautifully painted sky at sunset out the front window of Miss Doozie.