Corn Maze

We have had a special guest this past week. Peter's best friend, Bosco. The moment Peter came home from school he rushed over to Bosco and told me to take a picture. He is going to add it to his picture collection of his favorite dogs. Bosco made himself at home and slept in Peter's room, he was so happy! It will be sad when he has to go home. The weather has been really warm and we even had to break out some shorts. This Jamison's best Urkle impression. Saturday we went to the Treinen Farm, a place where they boast having the largest corn maze in Wisconsin. The farm is pretty cool. This years pattern is filled with tesselations (Escher's mathematical concept of infinitley repeating designs that interlock, filling a page), Penrose Tilings (infinitley non-repeating patterns) and Fibonacci numbers (a series of numbers where the next number is the sum of the prior two). Now I am not that smart, i had to look up the definitions. Pat, on the other hand, was pretty excited, telling the boys all about the mathematical concepts. We did really well, and only got lost once. We were able to find each map and make our way all the way through! My picture isnt as cool as the overhead photo above. it was a lot of corn!

The Farm also had bunnies, goats, chicken, lions and tigers oh my! Jamison took a liking to the bunnies. He said he would like a rabbit. I reminded him that that is not possible, Wini is a beagle, beagles are bread to hunt rabbits.The slides were bumpy and there were tractor tires all over to climb on. They had a pretty awesome set up. Jamison is making corn angels. We will have to hit this place up next year, it was a lot of fun! even though it felt like summer. The rest of the weekend was spent cleaning out the garage, car, back yard and barn attic preparing for winter. It is still hard to think that winter is right around the corner. At 80 it is hard to imagine. Instead of cleaning, Peter set up an obstacle course for is scooter. Pat gave Jamison a piece of tubing, he spent a long time jump roping and swinging it. Like an earlier post, who needs fancy toys when you have tubing!