cow teeth and feathers.

So 2 weekends ago we went to North Battleford.  It was me and my three little boys cause Brian was away at work.  We went out to the farm where my dad works and got down and dirty, well the boys did anyway.  I took the quad with Alex and Anthany and Atley rode in the Gator with Grandpa and Grandma.  Grandpa filled up some buckets with pellets to feed the cows and the boys even tried feeding them out of their hand.  It didn't work but they got really close.  It reminded me of what Anthany said awhile ago, " when I get to close the cows just mooo in my face".  or something like that anyway.  I think all the adults there were very aware of all the cow pies laying around but the kids, not so much.  Atley was wearing sandles (cause he didn't listen when I told him to put shoes on) and I think he was the first of the three to step in one of those pies.  It squished right up onto his toes and the funniest part was he really didn't even care.
     After we were finished with the cows we took a drive up the hill and checked out an old farm house.  The boys thought that was really cool.  We took the long way back to the farm and Grandpa (probably on purpose) took us past the "dinosaur bones" according to Atley.  It's the spot that the cow carcases get dumped and the cyotees clean them up.  Didn't take long for the boys to be under the fence and playing with the bones.  Some how a cow skull ended up in the back of the gator and ultimatly in the back of my van.  They had pulled as many teeth out of the skulls as they could and grandpa told them they could take a skull back to his place so they could get more out with plyers.  I am happy to say that the skull stayed in grandpas back yard but I have 3 piles of cows teeth kicking around the house.  Actually for the first 2 days those teeth didn't leave Atley's side.  They rode in his pocket on the way home, I discovered them in the bathtub with him when I went to wash his hair and were under his pillow at night.(I think my dad asked him if he knew what the tooth fairy would bring for cow teeth.)  He finally put them down on the second day when I discovered them in is pocket when he was getting raedy for school.  I told him that not everyone thought cow teeth were as cool as he did and he had to leave them at home.  He took a rock from his collection instead.
     While we were at the farm one of the older boys took Anthany and Atley to the barn.  I haven't been there so I am not sure what all was in there but I do know there was some very large feathers from a very large bird that was road kill at one piont.  Man those feathers were the coolest thing ever!(next to the cow teeth of course)  The older 2 boys each had a feather when it was time to go and they were so cool that Grandpa had to make a special trip down to the barn to get Alex one.  Sooo... on the way home from the farm in my van with me I had 1 grandma, 1 grandpa, 3 boys, a cow skull and a bunch of feathers. 

    Grandpa let Anthany drive the Gator.  He was proud as punch, ya shoulda seen that smile.