Bessie and the Gals were

playing hide and go seek the last I saw them.


I can't help but giggle, when I see the huge animals standing behind a tree and telling me to shhhh.  Why do they think their friends can't see them behind the tree?  I can't tell.  But they laugh so hard when they turn around and get over to their friend who is hiding.  The way of the cow's frolicing is very amusing.

They run after one another with such abandon, whether it is tag or hide and seek or their laps, as they call them, it is astounding how they entertain one another, when they are not gossiping.

Gossip is their primary passion and I don't think it is malicious, just their way.

Bessie and the Gals were

playing hide and go seek the last I saw them.


I can't help but giggle, when I see the huge animals standing behind a tree and telling me to shhhh.  Why do they think their friends can't see them behind the tree?  I can't tell.  But they laugh so hard when they turn around and get over to their friend who is hiding.  The way of the cow's frolicing is very amusing.

They run after one another with such abandon, whether it is tag or hide and seek or their laps, as they call them, it is astounding how they entertain one another, when they are not gossiping.

Gossip is their primary passion and I don't think it is malicious, just their way.

Cow manure and peonies

New sets of flowers means playing in the dirt and smelling the odors of cow manure. I love it. The colors of fall include new flowers the trees redressing in their Halloween costumes and the birds hiding out for the chilly weather.
I just can't wait for the peonies to do their fall dance for me. They are practiced and ready for the fall flower festival. The dance will bring out the best in the courtyard and will delight all of the onlookers. Those who can see their dance, those who participate in their dance and those who imitate their dance in their own way. We are not only dust in the wind. We have the delights of all of these sights and smells and thoughts and sounds and feelings to imbibe on this journey through this terrestrial scene. We usually perseverate, or overuse one or more of the senses and neglect some of the other, just as useful ones, to our own loss and sometimes deterioration.
High on cow manure and peonies is far better than high on sugar and guar gum and chocolate.

"I looked and behold there was a great multitude which no man can number..." Rev. 5:11

Our eyes will be engaged in the thrills that are prepared for us in heaven. Let us enjoy the beauty and lessons of the sights on earth and enjoy the beautiful gifts that God has prepared on earth for us richly to enjoy. I see that the bluejays do.

Bessie and the girls

Were gathering at the coffee truck this morning. Gossipping and chuckling at every little thing. Bessie's mouth was covered in jelly and sugar from the jelly donut that she enjoyed lavishly while talking. Her nose was still in her coffee cup when I passed the girls, on my way to work.
They make me think about the slowness of the day for the cow population of Huntersville. The labor of making milk and chewing cud looks like fun and games, but Bessie always reminds me that it is alot of hard work for them. Every creature has their labor and their reason.
Sometimes I wonder if their reason is the gossip or the chewing or the milk making.