More preschoolers?

Well, field trip season is in full swing here on the farm, and I, the "Turkey Guy" am very busy. This coming week, we have four straight days of field trips. This means I will be giving roughly two dozen talks about turkeys. Did you know that Ben Franklin wanted to make the turkey the national bird? Or that turkeys can have heart attacks? Resulting in fields of dead turkeys at the time the air force was trying break the speed of sound.

When a field trip comes, we gather all the kids on the pavilion and get them outfitted with name tags. Then we split them into groups and I start presentations. I make the kids act like turkeys, and then let them hold turkeys. It's great. Then we get to get lost in our giant corn maze, followed by a diesel power hay ride (the smell is fantastic,) which ends at the "pumpkin patch" where kids get to pick a pumpkin to take home. Obviously they all want the big one, and the adults stand around and laugh at them try to pick it up. Exhausted and hungry, we finally get to send them home.

In other news, our intern group finished our Project on the book of Joshua, which was a film reenactment of the story. It was complete with a dramatic battle of Ai, slow motion stoning of Achan, Gold-lame-jacket-wearing-God, and dance battle for the conquest of Canaan. I hope to get it up on vimeo soon, we'll see.


Well, that's all by way of update.

Cheers.