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The Trinity

January 10, 2021 by cynelder@me.com 2 Comments

I’ve been gone all week working, which means that I didn’t get to do the work I really wanted to do. I didn’t get my prayers said, any. I didn’t write at all. I did work and I did watch stupid TV and I did play stupid games. I did listen to some podcasts so … [Read more…]

Posted in: Catholic, Fancy Farm Living, Life Stories Tagged: calves, Covid, cows, Fancy Farm, God, Jerseys, Kentucky, Politics, Trinity

Bourbon Stockyards

January 14, 2019 by cynelder@me.com 1 Comment

I was born down the road from Bourbon Stockyards in Louisville, Kentucky. The house I came home to on Mellwood Avenue, is not there anymore. Now it’s a driveway. But we would drive right by Bourbon Stockyards on our way home from my grandmother’s house on Barrett Avenue. I never gave it much thought. I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Life Stories, Uncategorized Tagged: Bourbon Stockyards, cows, Fancy Farm, Louisville, photography, pigs

The Cows are Out

July 15, 2018 by cynelder@me.com Leave a Comment

Nothing gets your blood rushing more, especially in the middle of the night, than to be woken up with “The cows are out!” It might come from various places but the reaction is always the same: get up, throw some clothes on, grab some shoes that you can run in, and hit the dirt. Everybody, … [Read more…]

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The Cows are Out

May 25, 2017 by cynelder@me.com Leave a Comment

I awoke this morning to someone blowing their horn real loud. I looked out my bedroom window and there were cows walking right by, like it was no big deal. I immediately sprang up and screamed at my kids “the cows are out!” If you live on a farm with livestock, sooner or later they’re … [Read more…]

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You Heifer

April 1, 2015 by cynelder@me.com Leave a Comment

I was out shopping one day, minding my own business, when this woman I know came up to me and called me a dirty name. She immediately started laughing. Now, I didn’t take offense to this; personally I took it as a compliment. I know others who would have taken offense. But I didn’t. But … [Read more…]

Posted in: Fancy Farm Living Tagged: compliment, cows, heifer, insult

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