They love it.
Yup, the girls have turned in to real farm kids even though our "farm" consists only of poultry (about 32 chickens, ducks and guineas altogether) and a large summer garden. Although L. has been asking for a sheep for a couple of years and Fino wants goats for milk even though none of us really has a taste for it. Me, I'm aalll set with the poultry so as long as I have some influence in the family, we won't be expanding the family farm anytime soon. Plus, the topic of chicken chores - which are not too time-consuming or difficult most of the year (winter is rough for managing water in the coop) - usually reminds them how much more work additional animals would be.
It seems the tractor has also served as a change in thinking for G. She has declared periodically since she was about 5-years-old that she is NEVER going to drive. Some of her reasons ...
"It's too confusing with all the other cars driving so close around you."
"There are too many rules and things to remember."
"It would make me too nervous."
"It doesn't seem like much fun."
Of course I knew the tide would turn on that and now at 12-years-old, she's thinking her experience with this new (old) tractor is "good practice for driving a real car someday."
Yup, a new dawn is rising.
What I like about the tractor is that it is a manual transmission. G.'s trying to get that figured out so she can buzz around a little faster than first gear allows. Better to learn that skill on a tractor than on mom's car in four years.
Yikes, four years?! I can't possibly be that old yet...
My farm girls driving the tractor
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