I Milked a Goat

Hey Everyone,
I just got back from a Five day trip to Overlook Farm which is part of the Heifer Project International. www.heifer.org. The youth group from the church went to spend a few days on a mission project to learn about the project, the environment, and how farm animals can make a difference in the life of third world country families, as well as deprived families in the US.
The title will tell you one of many things that I did. This was the first time for me on a working farm and I got to milk a goat, milk a cow, played with lamas and held a brand new baby bunny. We smelled some really really bad smellin turklings. They had to be transported to another area and the cage shovelled out with two inch thick turkey droppings from 100 turklings. Too bad this computer is not wired with smellivision.
We spent overnight in Guatemala and Mexico, living like the people, building fires, and cooking rice and beans over the flames. Not so easy to build a fire after two nights of pouring down rain.
Our lunches and dinners were made from items in the garden and meat from the animals. All the vegetables were fresh and goood. I thought I tasted a hanover tomato in there somewhere. :-)
I was baptized with goat's milk, cow pee, and dunked my foot in various types of animal poop. I slept in a cot that almost touched the ground. We got caught in a terrible rainstorm that drinched us. I hurt things that I did not know I had. But at the same time learned a lot. It is amazing what you can do with a compost pile and what pigs will eat to keep the "trash" to a minimum.

I got my pictures back from my trip around Boston. I will try and post them in a few days. I will fill in more later, but I need to go and register my car and get my Mass driver's license!!

Have a good one.