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| Notes from guests on their visit to Possibility Farm Bed and Breakfast Combines. . . I've been watching them from the passenger seat, seeing their dust clouds over the corn fields and watching their immense power to chew up and harvest what has been planted. I've been taking pictures as Avery drove and I've been staring down farmers, trying to get them to pull over to show me what they are doing. As we headed south and west deeper and deeper into South Dakota Avery and I both looked through hotel, motel and B&B guides. I found one near Huron, she found one near Carpenter. They both interested us individually. After about two hours of driving in straight lines through the country we pulled over. She described a bed and breakfast she wanted to check out, and it was the same one I had been looking at - just under a different location. The name was Possibility Farm and we turned Felix in that direction, as the sun set in the west we drove into the sunset, we will see what happens next...anything is possible. Day 18: Riding the combine Thursday - October 2nd - Possibility Farm, Carpenter, South Dakota It's payday, so today we go to work! Actually, today is the day we get to spend time with our favorite South Dakotans, Harold and Darla. Harold and Darla run "Possibility Farm" which is a Bed and Breakfast. In their spare time (about 16 hours a day) they are professional farmers. They have buffalo and they have thousands of acres of corn and soy beans. Included in our stay at Possibility Farm was a visit to the buffalo grazing area and later on a trip to a field to check out a combine doing its thing during this harvesting season. These buffalo are real! They are real close to us. They are really really close to us, like maybe five or ten feet from us. Harold drove us out to their field in his pickup truck. He got out and reached in the back and grabbed an ear of dried corn. The herd started to run towards us. They stopped short of knocking the truck over and started to mill about, knowing, waiting for a treat. Harold asked us to help feed them, so we tossed ear after ear of corn to them and they slowly wandered closer and closer to us. It was an amazing experience. They are mighty and proud and just stare at you like you are a big mac, only they don't want to eat us. (Little did they know that we would soon be eating' them as Darla prepared buffalo burgers for lunch. Avery even tried one! I also bought some buffalo jerky to take with me on the road - Mmm...like buttah) Next up on our tour was a look at combines harvesting soy beans. Harold drove us out to a field in his pickup truck, jumped into a second pick up truck and let Avery take over at the wheel of his truck. We then drove about 6 miles or so to a giant section. A section is a field that measures one mile long by one mile wide. A half section is a half mile long by a mile wide and a quarter is a half mile long by a half mile wide. The combines were running around the border closing in slowly on the center. * * * * * . . . And we could not come to SD without stopping by to see Harold & Darla Loewen's Bed & Breakfast where we stayed that first trip out to the Prairie. They are truly wonderful people. We learned that they've had a white buffalo born in their heard this year. This was most interesting to hear since the Indians worship the white buffalo and consider it a miraculous sign. It was already dark and so we were disappointed that we didn't get a chance to see their white buffalo calf. I laughed and told Darla she had better start filling her freezer with her Carmel sweet rolls (that she's famous for) cause business was about to pick up! As we sat at their kitchen table, catching up with dear friends, But told Darla that we'd visited several Bed & Breakfast since our first stay at theirs. Each time , he realizes how he misses Possibility Farm. He looked at Darla and told her, "That cook humming in the kitchen was hard to beat!" I smiled. Bud, who says he has trouble expressing himself, had just summed up the key magnetism of Possibility Farm, the relaxing and cheerful atmosphere that radiates from its owners. . . . as Dee and Bud were leaving. . .We paused just before passing Harold & Darla's and saw the white buffalo calf! It was too far away to get a good photo (although I tried). It was thrilling to actually see the white calf. As we passed Harold and Darla's house we blew the horn. Through their picture window, we saw them sitting at their breakfast table, both waving farewell to their Tennessee bound friends |
| A Farm Vacation Bed and Breakfast Where city people go country. "A working farm and ranch raising buffalo, and cattle; growing wheat, corn and soybeans." |
| Possibility Farm 18653 408th Avenue Carpenter, SD 57322-7909 Phone: (605)352-6356 Cell Phone: (605)354-1152 Toll Free: 1-888-759-9615 Fax: (605)352-0474 Email: farmadventure@santel.net info@possibilityfarm.com |
