Back in the day growing up I had a great

love of the agrarian lifestyle.

This may have had lots to do with the Sears

and Roebuck farm catalog.  It had everything.

From the catalog you culd order chickens

or turkeys. Live.

You could also order the incubator and light to keep

them warm as well as a water trough and food truogh

for feeding them.

Bees were another interest.  It was beyond me how

someone could order bees and have them come in the

mail.

But then thee was my cow.

I wanted a cow.

We did not live in the country, but we did have a

big back yard.

In the far back of the yard I would play with the hose

and irrigate the land into furrows so that enough grass

would grow, I postulated, so that the cow could be

kept alinve.

I figured that this was a good idea because then the cow

could give us milk, and we wouldn’t have to buy it at the

store.