Farewell my bovine friends

When we first moved here one of the things that Grayson and Rowan loved the most was the field at the end of our street. It really wasn't anything exciting, just a field with some trees, a little old house, and two cows. But to my children who had spent their entire life up to that point living in an inner city neighborhood, the concept of cows living on your very own street was pretty darn exciting! The first few months we lived here we walked down and said hi to the cows quite often. We spent a lot of time wondering what their names might be, and making up our own silly names for them. Now three years later the cows aren't quite as exciting, but the boys still take note of what they're doing if we are walking or driving by the field. Some months ago we received a notice that a developer was going to put 30 some town houses on that field. We were so disappointed! (and apparently so were many other neighbors, as people did what they could to stop the town homes from being built). The last we had heard about this was that the developer had changed his mind and was going to build houses instead. We still weren't happy about this, but it was a little more acceptable. Then we didn't hear anything for awhile. Yesterday as I was driving home from picking up kids from school I noticed that not only were the cows gone (probably they've been gone awhile and I just didn't notice), but there was a bulldozer there knocking down all of the trees. The kids were outraged. Fuller said, "who would be stupid enough to think that houses are a better idea than cows!" "Someone who wants to make some money" I told him. This afternoon we drove by just in time to see them knock the whole back part of the house down. Progress I guess. I'm with Fuller, the last thing this town needs is more houses, what we could really use are more fields of cows to look at!

The former home of two really cool cows.