The Colorado Adventure

Today after Joel’s science we had a field trip to the Littleton farm.
Psalm 65:9-11
9 You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it.
10 You drench its furrows and level its ridges; you soften it with showers and bless its crops.
11 You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.


Hannah says to say we saw, ‘goat poo’ (although technically it was sheep poo.)

We saw the chickens and peacocks, sheep and ram, donkeys and cows.

I’m not sure where the pigs were. Here is Grace and her friend in the garden; all that’s left is a few watermelons and squishy pumpkins.

We wandered around to the schoolhouse where the kids had a lesson. They wrote on slates and recited a story about their drawing.




Then we went to the other side of the farm and watched the blacksmith.

Joel asked him a few questions about technical stuff (he has blacksmithed before.) I asked why they don’t have classes there. Turns out they did once, but Littleton thought it made them too liable, so they stopped. That reminds me I need to call Delaney farm and try to set up a smithing class there. We ran around some more and then went inside to play. There are a few things coming up there soon that look fun: wool dyeing, apple cider and corn day, fire making day, candy and taffy pull, and hunting/cooking your food in the open. Maybe we’ll make it to some of those things.

Here is what I have for Hannah tomorrow. The bowls are filled with pom-pom balls. She will move them from bowl to bowl with the tongs. I still need to find a light plastic pair (and smaller) of tongs for her to use. Then she has a new circle fraction puzzle and a new thread the block toy. Also her discovery bottles are in the basket. I am working on 26 small alphabet bottles, which will be neat for her to play with.


Now we’re back home and Joel just finished literature, the girls are watching veggietales and Hannah is asleep. Only 6 more hours till bed time, yeah!