Cotton Plains Farm

Since we've been in Virginia, we've had the opportunity to visit so many family members. Instead of being an entire day's drive away, we're now within 4-5 hours of most of our family which is an easy trip for a weekend...or even a day.

A couple weekends ago, Tommy and I packed up the car and drove the 2 hours southeast to beautiful Cotton Plains Farm to visit Gussy and Uncle Joe. Here's a list of some of the things Tommy got to see: brown dogs, a barn full of kitties, a very old (and very skinny) horse, real (and huge) John Deere tractors (!!), cotton plants, watermelons on the vine, carrots being pulled out of the ground (a root vegetable, unlike spaghetti), bees making honey, crabs in the mud, and the list goes on. Here are some things he got to do: ride the John Deere gator (not interested in riding those big tractors yet), pick veggies to his heart's content (we will NOT be returning during harvest time!), pick his very own corn cob that he still carries around with him, dance on the giant trailer, run run run by the corn and the cotton, touch the soft cotton bolls still attached to the plant, and the list goes on. So you can bet that he loved every minute of being at the farm and can't wait to go back again!

Here he is trying to pull the silks off of his ear of corn, standing on the trailer, and running in front of the cotton field with (or away from) Belle. And for the record - he DID like the dogs.....just not when they were barking :)