Jackson Danger, Day One Incident Report

Most of the day was spent traveling from Lenexa, KS, to the Farmage in Newalla, OK. Jackson did quite well traveling in the truck and made the comment that visibility was excellent, being able to clearly see the cows and horses in fields rushing past as we careened through Kansas.

We did have one slight incident involving Elmo. Seems that Elmo had a propensity for biting Jackson's fingers, and Nana Pam had to repeatedly chastise Elmo and put him in the front of the truck for a time out. Nana kept telling Elmo that we don't hit other people, we dont' poke other people, and above all we don't eat other people. At one point, after one of Elmo's frequent time outs, Jackson began biting Elmo's bugged eyes. Nana started to chastise Jackson, but then realized that Elmo was a muppet and not a people, so through a technical loophole, Jackson was allowed to eat Elmo eventhough Elmo was not allowed to eat Jackson.

After a thorough count to ensure all of Jackson's fingers were still attached, Elmo was remanded to permanent timeout for the remainder of the trip and the timeout continued upon reaching the Farmage.

We got to the Farmage around 6:00pm this evening and Jackson went right to work: First, he fed Joe the Horse a couple of carrots, then said "hello" to the new cows next door. Then he hurried to feed some crumbles to the chickens and helped gather the eggs from the day's output. He met the neighbor lady and petted the cat Abby and said "goodbye" to the cows. As the sun set slowly in the west, Jackson decided it was time to go inside and take a bath and go to bed, which he did precisely at 8:15pm.