Time for a field trip, I think

[tonypatriquin]

So the kids were on the hearth rug, playing farm with the dozens of mismatched plastic and die-cast figures we've accumulated in a big tub. And lo, I passed too close to the rug and was shanghaied into the game. I was instructed to man a "farmer" figure, while Caleb had a cow. The following dialog ensued

Comments

[nazrynn]

How about this one (mostly sheep)?
http://valleyshepherd.com/

Otherwise, when is the Sussex County Fair, and does it include agrigulture exhibits?

[tonypatriquin]

They milk sheep! That will *really* confuse the kids :-)

Actually, this looks great. We've put in on the calendar for Spring. Thanks!

[artisticphoenix]

Snerk. This is funny.

But be careful. When T found out where meat came from she became a vegetarian on the spot and throughout her teen years.

Explanations can be tricksy. :-)

[tonypatriquin]

I remember going off milk for a month after a learned what "homogenized" meant ("You mean it's full of *dead* germs?")

[theresat]

I was quite a bit older, though, and much of my concern came from reading a book about the terrible conditions of animals raised for meat. I think a visit to a "happy cow" farm might be far less traumatizing.

Trying to help, not implying that parental units did anything wrong. :)

[janeelliot]

When I was a little kid I spent a lot of time in my Grandmother's grocery store. She had a butcher, so their meat deliveries were a bit more obviously animal shaped than the packaged meat you see in the store.

I learned about milk when I was a girl scout and they took us out to a farm for the day. That was the first time I made butter, too.

[ianraven]

Of course, they need to know that milk is delivered by ninjas. With cranes.

[tonypatriquin]

If they didn't have the cranes, how would they get down the chimney?

I'll explain, but it's on you when their mother kills me :-)