Backyard Milk?

We ran out of milk over the weekend. So this got Future Farmboy wondering…”Why don’t we get a cow?”

That would surely solve the problem. But I asked him where he’d put it. “In the backyard.” When I said that the cow would need shelter, he said daddy could build it a barn.

When I asked where we would put the barn, he said we’d have to buy another house.

Indeed, our urban backyard is not big enough for active children and livestock…unless I can get a variance to allow a couple of goats and/or rabbits and a few hens.

Anyway, Future Farmboy was not deterred by the second house bit. So I asked how he would keep the cow clean. He in turn asked me how big cow poop is.

When I drew a circle in the air to demonstrate the size of a cow patty, he said, “I guess I’ll need a shovel.”