The farmer's daughter...?

Some days just sort of have a habit of defining a moment in a way that you could not orchestrate any better even if you had the time to try.
Today was one of those days that just reminded us of how fun it can be living away from the hustle and bustle of the modern world...

The farm theme started early today as colleen and Sequoia came out to the wood-shop to show me their most recent invention - the Mr Green Jeans Baby Carrier.

Now don't laugh - this system really works equally well around the house as it does down at the barn.

After lunch we headed down the road to the Gloucester County Fair. Sequoia had seen that there would be a free petting zoo and convinced Colleen that we should spend some family time together with farm animals.

For those of you that do not know it - Colleen has a dream of owning a petting zoo one day. I am not kidding. The mere fact that we do not already own half a dozen llamas and goats is a testament to the fact that I have at least a little influence on the decisions we make as a couple.

I'm not delusional, however, and readily admit to myself that once Sequoia can say "Daddy can I have a pony?" I'm pretty well done for. So I am always keeping my eye out for that old abandoned farm to fix up.

As you can see my girls are like a cross between pied piper and Dr Doolittle ... maybe even throw Noah in there as I am pretty certain they will want two of everything. At least with the Noah analogy I might also get a boat out of the deal.

After spending a few hours petting the animals (I am exaggerating) Sequoia began to realize that we would need some muscle to manage all of the feed and chores if she was going to take all of these animals home. Taking a look at me she realized that between her being 4 months old and her dad being 40 years old, we had better start looking at some mechanical muscle if we had any hope of pulling this off without making Colleen do all of the work.

So our next stop was the John Deere stand. As you know, Colleen and I are trying to raise Sequoia to be as green as possible, so why not a Deere?

Sequoia certainly approved of the choice. She was laughing and smiling and holding on to the wheel with a death grip.

I actually had to pry her little fingers off of it when it was time to climb down.

Maybe one day we'll have a reason to own one of these...if only to see that smile again.

To round out the day we even drove around the tri-county area shopping for an old farm house to buy. We did not find that magical abandoned farm house with our name on it, but who knows - maybe we drove by our future home today and did not even know it. That is part of the fun of this part of the adventure.

We did end up down by the Rappahannock River in Urbanna at the end of our day and enjoyed the cool breeze blowing off of the water. That is a great way to round out any day.