Case Country Farm is located in Chatham, MI, owned and operated by Trevor Case and Maria Strand, along with their daughters. This is Melody, she’s two years old and Mom and Dad’s right hand girl on the farm. She has a younger sister, but she’s only nine months old, so she sometimes helps strapped on to Mom’s back as you can see in the fourth photo. Besides being a little cutie, Melody helps with the chores almost everyday and this day was no exception. She broke the ice for the cow water, fed the pigs, gathered wood, and worked on her chain saw sharpening technique. It’s great that she’s outdoors and learning to help on the family farm like this.

Since Melody and her sister are such good helpers, I bet Santa will be bringing them something special. Today’s Santa is Charley MacIntosh, owner of the Nahma Inn and quite the character as you’ll see in the video. He was at the Calumet Theatre helping out at a recent show there. Sidenote: Santa Charley is Donna MacIntosh’s baby brother (Donna is a regular here on the Pasty Cam).

My first thought… man, are those deer fat.
I called #3; “Shawshank Redemption”
And Melody is a sweet little tune.
Couldn’t get the video to play
so I can’t comment.
Nice set though!

Ah, got the video to run… good times!
Were you there, Donna?

Cute pictures.

Ron and I were at this concert with Mary and Judy
and Charlie was a hit. Nice job.

Nope Alex...past the point of doing fun stuff...but
Mary sent me this the next day....Charley called on
his way over to visit and told me Mary did
this....it is just hilarious...that is my Baby
Bro...I adore that kid....Mary got great pics too..

I love that little one helping on the farm. That is
just outstanding...it is so great to see
"NORMAL"...(at least in my brain!)