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Almost every trip is different when we go to "The Village". But the one thing that remains the same is the horse-drawn "bus ride", as the boys like to call it.
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The boys trying there hand in the Cooper Shop.
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A trip up to the Freeman Farm always greets us with happy animals, and almost always a new colt, heffer or lamb has been recently born.
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This cute lil' heffer is about 3 weeks old.
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M, making friends w/ the sheep.
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Uhhh... like father, like son.
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Jonah tries his hand at a 19th Century baseball game. Interestingly enough, back then they used a soft ball & ran the bases "backwards", counter clockwise starting to the left, and would often shout encouragement to the players in form of a loud & hearty, "Huzzah!!"
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And this was a fun past-time game of sorts ... filling a paper balloon with hot air from the small fireplace below & letting it go, watching it sour above. Very cool.