Tag: cows

A Fresh Calf

One of Pops’ cows had a calf last week.  A cute little red calf.

LOOK AT HER TINY FACE!  HER LITTLE LEGS!  HER TWITCHY EARS!  HER LOOONG EYELASHES!  HER RUMPLY RED FURS!

Oh I love red calves.  Red cows are OK, but red calves are so cute they make me want to sneak them extra milk bottles behind Pops’ back, even if the powdered milk mix smells so sweet that it makes me want to throw up when I have to reconstitute it.  Of course, red calves aren’t as highly prized as black calves, or even black and white calves, because you can’t sell them for as much.

I say Pops keeps this calf anyway, because she’s ridiculously cute.

She’s very tame too, says Pops, and he even got close enough to her (and her cow mom) in the pasture last weekend to give the calf a noogie.

Calves like noogies.  Just try it sometime and you’ll see that they do.

Cow

Several years ago, I started calling Joey “cowboy”.  Just for fun.  Basically because I like cows, and Joey’s a boy.  Whatever.  A couple years ago, I started shortening “cowboy” to just straight up “cow”; it’s easier to say and since I really like cows, I thought it was a compliment.

Well.

At first, Joey was major annoyed.  He was all, why would you call me cow because those are large, fat, smelly animals that we eat.

And I was like, seriously?  Cows are amazing and you need to snap out of it.

I think poor Joey knew he was going to lose this one, too.  Because I continued to call him “cow”.  I couldn’t help it, I just forgot.

Fortunately for me, though, all these years later he doesn’t even notice anymore.  I could yell “COW!” across NorthPark on a busy Saturday, and he’d whip his head around to see where I am.  It’s amazing.