[deadhead]

OK, sounds good....LadyX, if you milk the cow, I will churn the butter. Buttered popcorn for all LOL

[LadyX]

When I was 10, I actually had a cow named Mabel and sometimes milked her! Had Muscovy ducks, and horses, and turkeys named Phyllis and Forrest after my parents' friends - -

Neighbors gave me a goat named Nancy, but she wasn't sweet like you, Nan..:))
My older sister teased her and taught her to charge.
That was all right until the day Daddy went out in the yard and failed to see the locomotive coming, head down, and sailed through the air!!

By nightfall, he had traded her with another neighbor for bantam chickens for me - LOL

We had 1,000 acres and sold down to 640, southwest of Melbourne, Florida.
It wasn't a farm or ranch - Daddy was an engineer, and needed a location in the central part of the state to get to projects.

It was a radical departure from the first nine and a half years in Coral Gables, Florida.

[Libertina]

What a wiz of a bicycle, deadhead! and a storm too... Popcorn and generators a must, and we will be sending safe thoughts your way eastcoasters. I went through an earthquake on FR once. I recall forgetting to get under my metal computer table because I was holding tight onto two monitors... LOL Luckily, there was no real danger though it was a big one. Best of all, my power didn't go out and I was able to post about the quake IMMEDIATELY! FR gets news before the newscasts. (FR ROCKS) We had so many earthquakes in Taiwan that I didn't really take them seriously anymore, but promise to do better next time ;) Take care out there everyone!