Friday, January 2, 2009

Shiny Happy Cows

Our neighbor George raises cows for beef on a very small scale - just for his family and people he knows who buy half a cow or whatever. We "hosted" his cows twice throughout the year in our lovely green pastures.

At one point George had ten cows; now he only has seven. Yesterday Mac explained to Megan that meat comes from cows. He was very delicate, but honest.

That night as we looked over the cows at dinner, I quizzed Megan to see how she was affected by her little talk with Mac, especially because she seems to be obsessed with death these days.

"Megan," I asked, "what does George do with his cows?"
Megan's reply: "He feeds them meat!"
"And what happened to the other three cows?"
"They went away on a trip."

Perhaps Mac was a little too delicate.

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