Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 11, 2021

Oh, a cow pie!

This could turn out to be an interesting roadside interlude.

In case you don’t remember, where there are cows, there are flies.

And meadow muffins

And Buffalo Chips!

Picnics usually invite wasps and ants!

So good luck!

Unless you are in Amish land, cows are crammed into a CAFO building. Wait until she finds out there is no potty or toilet paper.

In my experience, picnic tables and cows are usually separated by at least a fence.

And contrary to the nursery rhyme, cows don’t jump very high.

I can’t wait for the ants to come.

I yelled “COW!” at a woman riding a bike past me. She angrily turned looked at me and flipped me off. Then she ran straight into the cow. Some people just won’t accept help.

ooh, a de Havilland DH.98. I hope they’re in the mood for a nice romantic citronella candle lunch.

That table looks as if was built by the CCC. We really need a program like that now.

I’d eat in the car, motor running and ac on.

Have you ever seen a horse fly?

…but I ain’t never seen an elephant fly.

And the fly is carrying presents from the cow

Ohh, the cow gave us some pie.

Do any other guys roll down their windows, hang their head out it, and go “Mooooo” when passing a farm field full of bovines?

Where there are cows there are cow pies. A flies picnic table.

Oh! A cow pie!!!

Gonna take a lot of ‘shooing’

Pollinating plants, cleaning up carcasses, swabbing drains — flies are part of every strand of the web of life. For each person on earth, there are 17 million flies.

- NY Times

I went outside one day to see several cows in the yard. Hmmm, I need to do something about this! I filled a container with water for them.

I finally found the owner, different from the one I expected.

And guess what the fly’s been in?

Omigosh, does this thread get any better than this?

No, a picnic table is not infrastructure. There is no reason that taxpayer dollars should pay for a picnic table. If this is a public park, this would be a good Eagle project (if those are still happening).

Eagle projects are great. But you need the state highway department to build rest areas along highways and supply a few picnic tables.