Bear, Bison and 1st graders

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I wanted to give an update yesterday, but I simply ran out of time. It was very busy at the farm.

First off, the 1st graders were ecstatic when they arrived. They saw a black bear run across the County road just outside of our farm (for a map of our farm, click here). Then we took half of the kids on the hay wagon rides, and they thought the sasquatch were the coolest things in the world. I still find it neat to see kids sitting high up on those wagons at eye level with the sasquatch that are standing. Our tallest sasquatch is about 8'4". He's the big bull who thinks he owns the SW corner of the farm. We brough a bag of apples along for the kids to give the sasquatches. It was humorous because the majority of the kids just tossed their apples on the ground, but there's always one or two children who feel a little more courageous than the others and they hold their apples out and wait for a sasquatch to grab it. Their patience and courage paid off. "Bruno" a three year old bull sasquatch took them from the kids. We had seven sasquatch in all come up to the hay wagons this time around.

After that, we came back to the visitor's center where the other half of the kids were hanging out. They then watched a documentary we have, and then we brought Maisy back to the center to meet the kids. The kids absolutely adored her, and Maisy loved them right back.

At that point, the kids had their lunch, and then we took the other half on their hay ride. These kids lucked out a little more. When we were in the elk/deer pen, they saw two bull elk fighting near the edge of the woods, and when we got to the sasquatch pen, there were sixteen sasquatch waiting in the same area as before, waiting waiting waiting for some apples. This time, the majority of the kids were willing to hold the apples out after hearing the stories from their friends. Bruno was the first one up, and he started grabbing as many as he could which the kids thought hilarious, but our big bull, Max, put an end to that and chased Bruno off before he could get too many.

We had a good time with the 1st grade class yesterday. At 1:00, we waved them off and thanked them for coming. 100% success yesterday! After the kids left, half of our staff and I (or is it "me and half of our staff"?) went to the bison pens and rounded a few of them up for butchering.

Butchering took up the rest of the day and we didn't finish until 10:00 last night. Today, they'll be making the sausages and jerky. The fresh steaks are already in the freezer.

My job today is to work with the video design company that is making our promotional video. A little bit less hectic than yesterday, which is a nice change.

Until tomorrow...

Dave

Manager

Sasquatchicus Farms, LLC