To add to my farm envy post...

I forgot to add that one of the things that I do to get a "fix" of farm-life is to go visit farms: real farms, apple farms, petting zoo farms, etc.

I'm sure that the apple orchard and petting farm we hit on the way to Milwaukee was not representative of farm life exactly, but my son got to ride the kettle cars through the orchard, (well, I had to kick the back of it 100 times while yelling "YOU have to peddle it!" to get him around the whole thing) my daughter got to hug a sheep, we got to BRUSH the sheep even, (I'm practically a farmer now) and we saw the hugest turkey I've ever seen. Anyway, the pictures are pretty cute and I got a good farm-fix from the whole experience.