April 30, 2009

Cow Racing and Tipping



I know a lady, whose last name before marriage was Farmer.  She married a farmer boy, lives on a cow ranch, and she is not really a farming person.  We constantly make fun of her maiden name.  

Her husband grows (farms, breeds, cares for) Black Angus.  They have about 50 heads, not counting babies.  We missed the branding week, but still wanted to come out and spend some time with them.  It is a vacation for us, away from work and civilization.  In the evening the entertainment was simple - Wii and Guitar Hero.  None of us was sophisticated enough to play anything on Guitar Hero.  However, Wii was fun.  I only played Cooking Mama before.  So it was a great chance to try many, many, many games.  After hours of going through them, I ended up liking cow racing.  I hit ever fence pole and tree in sight.  I asked our friends if they ever did cow-tipping.  What followed just confirmed what a city person I am.  

Cow tipping is a myth!!! You can't tip a cow, since they weigh about a ton or more. They had a case when a pregnant cow ended up on her back in a hollow dent in the ground, it wasn't even a hole.  It required a big tractor to untip her.  So we couldn't go and tip cows at night, so we raced our cows on Wii.  Farmer Boy got a Wiinjury from curling. 

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