Visiting the Moo Cows

Last month we signed up for home milk delivery. Once a week, the Longmont
Dairy delivers several half gallons of fresh milk in glass bottles to our door. It arrives just moments before Genevieve wakes up to demand her early-morning snack (after which she dozes off again for a couple of hours). The milk tastes excellent, it costs less than the store bought organic milk, and it turns out that the dairy farm is just a few miles up the road from us, in Loveland. (The Longmont Dairy cows live in Loveland... Their milk gets processed and bottled in Longmont)

So for fun this morning, after enjoying some milk with breakfast, we decided to go visit these cows, who have been so generous to us humans. At first we thought it might be hard to find the dairy. But it turns out that a herd of several dozen classic white-and-black splotched bovines is pretty easy to spot, even while whizzing past at 40 mph.

We stayed on the side of the road admiring these huge, gentle, lactating animals, until a guy in a pickup truck pulled up and rolled down his window. He introduced himself as the owner and invited us inside the gates to meet the cows up close. What a treat!

We tried unsuccessfully for a few minutes to get them to "moooo" at us, but they just stared back blankly at us when we prompted them. "Silly little monkeys."



Genevieve has learned how to moo like a cow when we're reading The Little Red Barn or other cow-related stories. It is adorable. So we wanted to prove to her that they really do make that noise - we weren't just putting her on. But alas, the sleepy cows were not cooperating today.