Tyler loves animals and could spend his whole day watching them.
In town there is a park called Depot Park.
It has your assorted swings and slides.
But best of all it has ducks.

You see the park is actually behind town at the bottom of a hill.
It sets in a little valley with a large stream that runs through the middle
On one side is the swings,slides and such
On the other it has picnic tables and a gazebo
This is Americana at its best
It really looks like Norman Rockwell came out designed the town himself

Sorry about ramblin on but you can read about in a new section I just thought up.
I will call it Our Town

Anyway Tyler loves to come and watch the ducks

We could sit for hours and feed them
Just before they flew south he mustered enough courage and fed one from his hand
He thought that this was so neat
For awhile we could not go past the park because he did'nt understand where the ducks went
Until I told them they went to Grandpa Petes.
Now he wants to go see the ducks,seeing Grandpa Pete will be a bonus.

Baby cows and piggies are high on his list also
Just a few miles up the road past the new subdivision(Which is down wind from the dairy farm)
There is a place called Cooks Dairy farm
They sell all dairy products at the local markets and party stores
As a matter of fact,many local establishments put out signs that say they sell Cooks dairy products and business actually increases

Ok sorry back to the story
Well now let me see,Tyler loves to go down and look at the cows and pigs
There is no charge and you can stay for hours
No charge is the best part as much as we go there
They sell ice cream and you just wander around looking at cows and pigs
The kids see the animals while mom & dad try to keep the ice cream off their kids shirts and the cow patties off their clothes
This in its self can prove to be a challenging part of parenthood.

We often do sample the ice cream(Sample to the tune of 6 extra pounds)
Tyler is just like daddy,he loves the strawberry and mom prefers chocolate
Tylers ice cream has no problem finding its to the ground....and his shirt
Not to mention his pants,face,hands and ` hair
And yes sometimes on the animals
In that barn tonight is a poor little piggie having nightmares about being attacked by a strawberry ice cream cone
Is there a pig therapist out there

Tyler will sit there and grunt at the pigs(I taught him that.
I thought it was neat.
For some reason my wife did'nt)
Or he will moo to the cows and when they talk back
He will scream with laughter

I admit to joining in on the pig grunting and cow mooing
There is nothing like letting out a good pig grunt to ease your stress.
Come on go ahead no one will you hear
It's alright go ahead
Wooo easy now friend,your shaking the walls
There now don't you feel better.