Life on The Funny Farm

• Wisconsin has way too many indoor water parks through out the state.
• DethKlok is a great band to listen to when you are ready to blow off some steam
• Minnesota has a lot of lakes if you didn't know that already. Just a couple.
• James and Jane are freaking awesome people who work on Sleeping Cat Farm in the middle of nowhere USA.
• Darwin, Minnesota is home of the largest ball of twine - and we saw it!
  
• Sleeping Cat Farm is also known as Funny Farm
• It's cold here
• Phil and I are thinking more and more about that banana farm in Tanzania. Or maybe just the beauty of farm life.
• We got to feed baby calves, chase lambs back into their pen, and hear some really freaking funny stories. Dead calf left on the hood of a car is all I'll say.

There's something about being with Peace Corps Volunteers and on a farm that makes us feel like we're back in TZ. Doing laundry and cooking all day, drinking beer with s'mores next to a bon fire with good friend is comforting. It really is fantastic being with other PCVs; we understand each other, we can tell stories without having to explain them or explain what a choo is (a pit latrine, outhouse, or whatever suits your fancy).

We had such an amazing time it's quite difficult to put it into words. We weren't planning on staying long, but now we wish we stayed longer than we did. For the first time in a long time we sat around a kitchen cutting vegetables for home cooked meals - three times a day, in between all the farm chores. Jane you're a great cook and we are feeling so much better about ourselves after eating completely organic meals.

Sleeping Cat Farm is going to turn out to be a great learning experience for James and Jane - after a year or so of learning how to care for cattle, and tending to a one-acre fully organic vegetable garden and learning the whole market selling gig. After a year or so they are hoping to find their own land somewhere between Texas and Illinois. And have already invited us to come live and work at their new place. We may just take them up on that offer. I mean, I wouldn't mind wearing overalls everyday. Sidenote: James you're a hott overall-wearing farmer.

So we hung out on the Funny Farm for two nights before getting up before dawn to hit the road to Montana - our longest leg of the trip yet.