I have to share this store with you from last summer...Our wheelbarrows where not as full :)
Drought Blamed for Cow Chip Shortage UPDATED Thursday, August 30, 2012 --- 7:15 a.m.
SAUK CITY, Wis. (AP) -- The drought is causing an unusual problem for one southern Wisconsin festival -- a shortage of cow chips.
The Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw and Festival in Prairie du Sac uses hundreds of the flatted and dried cow manure pieces for their annual competition that starts Friday. The whole story here: http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/Drought-Blamed-for-Cow-Chip-Shortage-167250755.html
I don't usually approve anonymous comments, and I certainly don't click on links in anonymous comments (I don't recommend it to my readers either), but I thought this was an interesting tangent on the subject.
Etegami (e= "picture"; tegami= "letter/message") are simple drawings accompanied by a few apt words. They are usually done on postcards so that they can be easily mailed off to one's friends. Though etegami has few hard-and-fast rules, traditional tools and materials include writing brushes, sumi ink, blocks of water-soluble, mineral-based pigments called gansai, and washi postcards that have varying degrees of "bleed." They often depict some ordinary item from everyday life, especially items that bring a particular season to mind.
Much nicer without the smell!
ReplyDeleteI love how you can take something mundane and make it nostalgic.
ReplyDeleteSee, you even make cow dung look cute in that wheelbarrow! I rest my case!
ReplyDeleteIndeed, your cow chips look a bit too attractive. :-)
ReplyDeleteI have to share this store with you from last summer...Our wheelbarrows where not as full :)
ReplyDeleteDrought Blamed for Cow Chip Shortage
UPDATED Thursday, August 30, 2012 --- 7:15 a.m.
SAUK CITY, Wis. (AP) -- The drought is causing an unusual problem for one southern Wisconsin festival -- a shortage of cow chips.
The Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw and Festival in Prairie du Sac uses hundreds of the flatted and dried cow manure pieces for their annual competition that starts Friday.
The whole story here:
http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/Drought-Blamed-for-Cow-Chip-Shortage-167250755.html
I don't usually approve anonymous comments, and I certainly don't click on links in anonymous comments (I don't recommend it to my readers either), but I thought this was an interesting tangent on the subject.
DeleteI love the colors of the wheelbarrow, and that you can make cowpies cute!
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