(2017·太原质检)I grew up on a little farm in Missouri.

　　I left the farm at 18. Since then I've tried to experience a little of my country childhood through travel again. The one that feels most like my childhood home is the historic Hasse House Ranch (牧场) in Art, Texas.

　　We found it one April several years ago while traveling in Texas Hill Country to see the beautiful spring wildflowers. We had no place to stay that night until we saw an open gate by a B & B sign. We drove through the gate and up the little quiet country.

　　I felt as if I had come home. Patrick and I have returned several times, because we find Hill Country and Hasse House Ranch one of the most peaceful places in Texas. I've wanted to bring along my grandsons, 4­year­old Jimmy and 2­year­old Anderson, so they could experience the wonder of country life. I finally got my chance last spring.

　　Jimmy ran into the Texas ranch house as soon as Grandpa Patrick unlocked the door.

　　He stopped in the center of the room and dropped the toys he carried.

　　“Wow，” he cried, “this is a great place！”

　　Patrick started an evening habit for the boys of putting them in their American Flyer and pulled them along the 2­mile nature path to find and say “good night” to the cows. In the quiet evening before sundown, birds filled the trees, singing before settling down to roost.

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