This week we are staying at the Ingalls homestead; On The Banks of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder taking place in 1880 published 1939, the fifth of nine books.
There were a lot of things to see and do on the Ingalls homestead here are a few of the things we saw and did.
When we first pulled up, a male Longhorn (type of cow part of the Bovine family) had gotten loose and was way away from his pasture but pretty close to our dry camping sight. Guess how many vehicles it took to get him back (see the bottom for answer). There were also two horses with riders plus one horse that didn’t do anything.
We also saw a cute little gopher that looked kinda like a chipmunk 🐿.
After we got settled in our one night camping spot, we went to explore the homestead. First we went down a hill to see, pet, and ride some horses and colts (male baby horse). One colt was black with two white socks on his back feet and a star upon his brow, the other was the color of a teddybear and softer then any teddybear could be. Later we learned that his name was actually Teddy.
We also went on a carriage ride pulled by two dark bay horses 🐎.We had a nice carriage ride to a school house. We did some prairie school and at the end of recess we skipped class and drove away in the carriage never to go back or do school ever again!!!
We also made some rope. The End
Answer: it took 8 vehicles to get him back not counting the two horses.
Sounds like fantastic activities. You look right at home driving those horses Aleah!
I would like to apologize with any disruption that was caused while the longhorn was out, as I am the guy that roped and own the long horn.
You caused no disruption to us! We enjoyed watching real ranch work being performed. We are sorry for the headache the bull caused you, though! We all discussed multiple times about the amount of other work that was probably piling up while you dealt with this unplanned “excitement.”