Got a fun assignment from Arizona last week… 🌵

I decided to turn it into a blog post for a couple reasons. First, because I am THE WORST at being prompt at mailing packages out. [Like birthdays, for example. I still have my mom’s August 25th b-day gift sitting on a table waiting to go to the post office. I mean, the gift is DONE and ready…all I need to do is mail it! 😔] And second, I am THE WORST at getting pictures printed… We don’t have a color printer, so the procedure to get a picture printed is just more than I can handle, lol… Especially when the printer at our local Rite Aid doesn’t seem to ever be able to read our travel drives! 😡

Soooo, to my brother, Mark: Hope this post can count as completing Abbi’s assignment – and if you want to print any of these pictures out, you’ll get them quicker than any I’d send from here! 😬I’ll place Flat Stanley and his new wardrobe in mom’s package and try to get it shipped tomorrow… 👍

Now: on to our adventure! 😊

First thing we had to do was prepare Flat Stanley with proper “farm” attire… Custom-made a pair of muck boots for him and introduced him to the dairy girls during the morning’s milking. 🐮Here he is with the boys and ScotchTape:

Next he helped me hand milkers to the boys…👏

Then he “hung” with me in the milkhouse… 🙈

And he helped me bottle the milk. He MAY have taste-tested the milk when I wasn’t looking…not sure how else he may have gotten a milk mustache… 😧

He liked our cats, too. Though they weren’t interested in sharing their milk with him…😼

He wanted to get an up-close look at the calves, so we brought him to see them… 😎

He chose the wrong wire to hold onto and was a little “shocked”… [It was a “hair-raising” experience! 😉]

Then he almost turned into a snack, but Uncle Mike saved him… 😱

Didn’t take long and everybody just went back to business… ☺️

Then he helped me frost Uncle Mike’s birthday brownies… 🍫

And posed for a selfie with Michael… 😏

He fit perfectly in Uncle Mike’s phone pocket on the 4-wheeler, so he was ready for a ride with the boys…🌞

They took him to see the dairy girls grazing in their field…🐄

Fixed him up with a Terriers shirt to root for Michael’s baseball team, and then he partied with us as we shared a dessert celebration for Uncle Mike after the rainy game. Even Aunt Jenny got in on the fun! 🎉

That’s it! Some farm, some family, and some fun. Thanks for sending Flat Stanley to us, Abbi! 💌

😘,
Aunt Dawn, Uncle Mike, Michael, & Paul