Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me...

James saves the day! As Anne, Andie and both babies were sitting under the apple tree, crack! Down came a limb! Luckily, James was there to catch it, and give everyone a chance to escape. Good work, James! And Anne was just saying her yard finally looked the way she had always dreamed it would. Sigh.


Everyone pitched in to help with the clean-up. Mr Olson, the next door neighbor, came right over with a hand saw to get the big branches out of the way.

The boys helped gather the apples. Apple pie, anyone?

And neighbor Bob Windsor loved the opportunity to get out his chainsaw. In fact, he may have enjoyed it a little bit too much!

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To make amends with nature, the whole crew went to the cooperative farm where the Doughertys have been getting fresh vegetables this summer.

The boys learned to identify tadpoles, and they tastes fresh berries they picked themselves.

Connor and Andie met a pig. Definitely not a Wilbur!

And then, the main attraction: cow milking! The dairy had about 40 cows, and we got to watch them be milked. Which may have been a little bit too much farm for us.

So, we moved on to the baby cows who needs some milk of their own. We had those bottles out for maybe 10 minutes before they had completed finished it off.

Great job with the clean up, Finn! Now, everyone back home for showers, quick!