Mooooooooooo

We have this lovely neighbour who is living off his land. True farmer style. He has cows for milk and beef . Chickens for eggs and meat. Goats. Rabbits . Pigs. A pretty white horse named Molly. And of course a couple dogs to guard the barn. We befriended him and his family last year when we moved into our country property. He gave us a tour of his 200 year old barn, the wood inside is amazing. Huge hand crafted beams. Quite the amazing workmanship. The outside of the barn need a serious overhaul, but one day at a time seems to be his way of life.

One night after dinner hubby and i get dressed up and head out to a funeral home for a friend. As we come around the corner and pass farmer friends property we notice the Milke cow and Molly are making a racket in their fenced area. Then we notice the baby cow, who by the way is almost the same size as the full grown cow , is out of the pen and running free. She was running, galloping actually which is a rare site to see. Think about it? when is the last time you saw a cow running? Never ! they always saunter around the fields or are seen standing still. So we slowed our car and watched to see where baby cow was heading. Well she saw our car and ran up to us, just like a dog. Hubby was trying to shoo her away, and being in dressy clothes we werent really prepared to wrangle a cow! Farmer friend wasnt home, so we felt helpless.

So we slowly drive up slowly, by this time Milker cow and Molly the horse are having a fit. They are making so much noise, trying to call this baby cow back into their fenced off area. Animals are so smart! Eventually baby cow got tired of us and took off across the street to the neighbours front lawn, did a big circle and then came back across the street to the beautiful bungalow next to his penned off area. Baby cow proceeded to walk across their front porch and up to their front door. Baby cow peeked into the front window and thankfully??  nobody was home to answer the door ! ha ha!  milker cow and Molly were now on this side of their pen, still calling the baby cow in , but do you think the baby cow cared? no way ! if i could imagine what she was thinking it would go something like this " i am free! this is awesome guys ! come on , come out that hole i snuck out of and see what the neighbourhood is like. wow these people have a 50' tv in their living room! Guyyyysss commme onnnnn !!!!!! "

Well we finally had to leave, we had somewhere to be. As we drove away we passed another neighbour walking her dog. So i rolled down the window and did my good dead of the day and warned her of the "cow on the loose." Only in the county!

I am so excited for the day that baby cow gets loose again. Maybe she will make it up to our front porch and peek into my windows. Now that would be a picture worth a million words !

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