Cows and Trucks
Life is good in Sally’s Fancy these days! The birds are singing outside my window (they’re probably telling me the feeders are empty, though), there are gentle breezes blowing from the southeast moving my magical, musical wind chimes. The skies are clear and blue.
And the trucks aren’t going by here any more. I don’t hear the roaring belching monsters speeding down Lowry Hill toward the boyscout camp. It’s lovely!
And the Senepols are back! There are a couple of dozen cows and calves in the pastures that burned a few weeks ago. I love driving out of our street and seeing the peaceful creatures grazing on the new green grass right across the way.
I feel so lucky to live here…
June 4th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
My first experience on STX with those “peaceful grazing creatures”….I am on the southshore road heading off for an evening CandleLight Concert at Whim and out walks one of these big guys coming out of the brush which is growing right up to the edge of the pavement. Off comes the headlight and my left fender. The senapol gives me a disapproving look and without so much as a MOO, turns around and walks back into the brush.
When I turned around I could not find a drop of blood or a trace of the Senapol.
We called the farmer who used to own these big guys only to find that he had sold them all to the University of the Virgin Islands.
June 4th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
“Island Living” means you need to watch out for these beautiful beings.
I sometimes like to be shown that the world does not revolve around me and my schedule. Other lives and agendas are just as important.
Many times when I worked construction in 1994, I would be carrying materials to a house out east, and frequently had to stop while the cattle were being herded from one pasture or pen to another. Then there were (and still are) the goats, geese, chickens, peacocks…. Once there was a donkey cart as I was headed into town. I love it!!
June 8th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Hey Terry, glad the cattle and grass are back. That was a pretty scary thing, that fire. Nature knows what it’s doing though, and I bet that young grass is pretty tasty.
We’re still up here plugging away at work, wishing we were there. We’re in the midst of a heat wave so a swim in clear blue water would be nice. Hope all’s well, and tell Michael hello. There might be a visit in order in a couple of months….
June 8th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Ha, ha…well no one would have been able to avoid this guy, he came out just as I was passing by…has nothing to do with anyone’s “schedule.” There was a water truck that flipped over earlier in the day, that and a fire…somehow the fence must have gotten broken down because usually they are not walking out of the brush onto the road.