Mah mans and I headed out to the Trader Joe's last night to secure some vittles for the week, but when we prepared to turn out of our lil' suburban development, we saw something odd.
We saw this:
That's right, we saw a couple of bovine young 'uns rollin' down the street right in front of us. I believe our first response was HOLY SH*T! But then, being the faithful blogger-eress-er, whatever...I grabbed my cellie phone and snapped this shot.
Then called the non-emergency dispatch number for the local police.
We followed the moo cows down the street a little bit as I explained to the dispatcher that she might want to get the mounted posse down here right away. I told her that they were headed down to the quad and through the gymnasium - and that somebunny needed to wrangle 'em, STAT. She told me that someone would be arriving in my neighborhood directly.
Meanwhile, we slowly followed the cows as they ambled down the middle of the street towards the construction site for the new middle school a few blocks away. They hung a roscoe into what will one day soon be the front lawn area of the school, but now is simply home to a few errant weeds. A few old timers in a beat up pick-up truck pulled over to the side of the road to keep an eye on them, and with that, we were on our way to discounted organic produce at TJ's!
I emailed the picture around to my coworkers today to demonstrate this interesting crossover between urban and rural areas. Though I live in a tidy lil' suburb with well-tended yards, there's a field just beyond my neighborhood on one side and a cow pasture on another side. We're fringe-dwellers is what we are. My coworkers had some interesting comments...
That's really good for a neighborhood for a couple of reasons. One, it brings nature into the community. Two, it lets people be closer to their food. Plus, if you're feeling squirrelly, hop on and see if you can ride the 8 secs.
Load your shotgun shells with slugs and have lots of steak; you must, however, have room in your freezer!!!
I don't even get that out in my neck of the woods. I thought you lived in civilization!
And my favorite:
Hard to find work these days as a Merrill Lynch bull....
1 comments:
My parents neighborhood is like this. When they first moved there it was all new developments and a bunch of farmland. We'd go walk the dog and run into a cow or 2.
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