Hot Hot Days of Summer..

Ileigh has her first sunburn. Bad Mama, I know. I had sunscreen with me too. It's just that it was in the car.
Today my family took a lovely day trip to Prescott (picture cool breezy pines) to visit Young's farm. This is where we (had the impression that) one can pick fresh fruit, corn, squash, and other delectibles straight off the vine. Ileigh was great in the car although I got pretty tired of entertaining her to be so. We got to the festival and quickly walked through looking for the "farm". No such luck. All we found was an outdoor market with veggies we could "pick" from a cardboard bin. Oh yeah, we also found an abandoned bean tree market, some old farmer tools piled up, and something extremely scary that I will tell you about later.
We took some pictures near the flowers and corn field. (insert picture here when I download them.)


We walked through a petting zoo (poor Andy cringes at these). This one started with pigs in swampy mud, had goats with horns poking through the fence, and ended with Bambi. Then we found a baby chick house. This sure was cute at first. Then when you get closer you see them. All 350,000 of them. Onward. Then you come to the big chicken house. This is what the babies I just saw have to look forward to. These chickens were stinky, loud, and missing most of their feathers thanks to their buddies. And just when I felt vomit in the back of my throat, we came to what I don't think Mr. Young wanted his guests to see. Well, I do think they were trying to disguise it with like 5 work trucks semi-blocking the entrance. Lucky for me Andy saw right through them to the wicked torture devices hanging from chains and pulleys in the roof. It was a chicken assembly line. Picture this.. clamps to hold up each chicken by the throat... move through the room like a disneyland ride.. through several buckets of god-knows-what. Boiling water? Hot grease? Forks and Knives? All I know is that cannot be good. And little kids are laughing and pointing to those cute little birds 15 feet from their fate. Then I saw the feathers all over the 2X2 doorway for the pulleys to go through. Here comes the vomit.

Next, we rode a "hayride" with no hay, around the farm. Farmer Buzz showed us how to dehusk corn and eat it right off the cart. He showed us an 800 foot well (well, there was a spicket anyways), and this is where the sunburn comes in. None of us knew that the ride was going to last an hour, be so damn hot, and be out in the burning sun. I am so sorry Ileigh.
Then we saw the THANKSGIVING TURKEYS. Yay! Farmer Buzz even let two lucky kids go into the pen and carry out some of their future meals to show to the rest of us. I know what you are thinking, but don't worry. Their toes were lasered off at 2 days old to prevent the scratching of humans or otherwise. Then we stopped at a giant haystack where Buzz let the kiddos run up and down and encouraged them to play tag. This would of been delightful had it not been for the 40 or more foot drop on the other side of the stack. Oh well, no one got hurt this time!
So we eventually left the farm to get some lunch. No, I did not have chicken. Oh yeah, and the best way to end a day of sunburn and shocking sites is to have the 70MPH for 2 hours freeway home be reduced to 20MPH for god-knows-what reason because we never saw one.
Oh yeah, and it was a pretty fun day. Except for the burn. I'm so sorry Ileigh.

I will insert the pictures tomorrow so check back soon.