How Now Interrupting Cow

If you live, lived or stayed in a rural town this story may bring back warm yet annoying memories.

Cows - what gentle creatures they are. They give us milk, eat grass and hay, have four stomachs, and moo. Well at least that's the image city folk have. I dare anyone to drive down a country road, by a cow pasture and not hang your head out the window and moo! You can't help it. Cows just have that effect on us.

Country folk have an entirely different relationship with cows. Picture if you will a bucolic pasture, the sun coming up over the hill and twelve cows, mooing . . . mooing . . . and MOOING, at 5.a.m. in the morning. Sleep interrupted. It's now 6 a.m. they're still mooing! By 7 a.m. I'm sleep deprived, and screaming at this innocuous creature. I walked over to the fence in my slippers ranting pointing my finger at their huge heads swearing I'll make a leather wallet out of all of you if you don't stop. I then realized it was not even dawn and I'm having a tyrannical argument with a cow! Asking them rhetorical questions like, "How much long must I endure your incessant mooing?" I'm so ashamed, but, continue to brow beat the beast for waking me up . . . sad indeed.

It's now 9 a.m. and our neighbor has arrived. Oh joy, they are finally being fed. Peace, quiet and tranquility at last. I sat on the porch enjoying my morning cup of tea and our horse came over from the larger pasture neighing and snorting. The barn cats not far behind him, screeching, and howling for their breakfast, a school bus ripping down the road back-fires! I can't believe I'm able to write. My article is done so I'm going back to bed. Country living has its drawbacks but as a writer there is no place I'd rather be.

And to prove to you that I have no hard feelings toward cows, I'll leave you with a joke:

Knock, knock. Who's there? Interrupting cow . . . Interrpt . . . . MOOoooooo!

Disclaimer:No cows were hurt, humiliated or made to feel inferior or responsible for my sleep deprivation during the creating and/or writing of this article. Said neighbor was not chastised for his tardiness in feeding said cows nor was his pointing and laughing at me ranting at said cow to be offensive in any way to said writer.