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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Tales from Mid Summer in Southern West Virginia

The Bad Cow --
A Posting for My Grandson John A.

K. go get your son. Bring him here. Let him read this post.

John, you here?

Good. You see what is up above?

That's right it's a Cow. But not just any cow, a BAD Cow.

What does the Cow go?

That's right: MOOOOO. But not this cow, it goes: NYA NYA NYA

You see yesterday instead of staying in its pasture and eating all the nice grass that GrandMom and Pops provide for her, she, and all 20 of her herdmates decide to go off and explore the woods on the other part of our property. And would they return?

No. Bad Cow.

And Pops spends part of his day chasing them through the woods saying "The Grass is Green. It is sweet. Come eat!"

And this Bad Cow and all her Bad Cow buddies just run away.

Then GrandMom comes up to Pops and says: "Why there is more to life than Bad Cows! Much more. Why look, here is a Queen Anne's Lace!

"And here is another, and this one has a red ant on it! Aren't they more beautiful than that Bad Cow running through the forest with all of her friends?"

And Pops had to admit, well yes they are. But still, after all, cows that like the woods? He'd never heard of such a thing as that.

And then GrandMom spies a Daisy with a bee on it and says: "See look at that! Isn't that more interesting than a bunch of Bovines who are too stupid to know what is good for them?"

And Pops agrees, the flower and the insect do look nice together. But still, a Bad Cow, a Stupid Cow, running through the woods? Come on now, surely they can do better than that.

"Why look at these Asters," says GrandMom, aren't they something! And look, would you believe it, a Common Buckeye Butterfly is feeding on our flowers! Why it knows what is good to eat!"

And Pops agreed the butterfly did.

And finally, after a day of running through the forest, chomping on the weeds and being generally dis-satisfied with their lives, the Bad Cow and all her Bovine mates decide to come out and enjoy the grass again.

And Pops says "Good, I'm glad you came to your senses."

And the Bad Cow says: "Fooey."

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