What I read at 3am.

Up at 2am.  I tore a lateral ligament in my knee about eight months ago and it isn't healing.  I sometimes wake up in pain and I either have to take a pain pill, which I don't like, or get up and put on a compression brace.  So I'm wearing the brace.

So I come and here and read.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100916121326.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100915162547.htm

http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2010/09/light-made-to-hug-curved-surfa.html

I search for books about raising cows - but all of them kept talking about raising them and then eating them.   Hey, I raised this cow almost from the time he hatched.  I'm not going to eat him.  I wanted a couple of geese as watchdogs but all I hears was 'geese shit all over everything'.   Ya think?  So I got a little cow instead to be an organic lawn mower.  But he doesn't mow the lawn.  He has finally started nibbling on weeds - he is almost three months old - and I am hopeful that he will eventually start eating grass like other cows.  I do see him nibbling at it on occasion.  He IS a lot quieter than geese.  He only calls me when he wants to be rubbed or needs some grain or wants to be bottle-fed five gallons of water (twice a day) - or gets his lead-line hook on something. Or wants to play.

There are a couple of feral cats which hang out here.  I don't mind.  They make sure I don't have any rats or mice.  One little kitten lives on the back steps.  When I walk outside I have to step over it.  It used to attack me but after a couple of months of feeding it, it wants petted instead. It purrs up pretty good and doesn't attack me until I stop petting it but it doesn't attack me much anymore.  I have never hear it 'meow'.  It's mother hangs around now, too.  It sits just out of reach and talks plenty if it's hungry.  I have to run inside and find something for them to eat. If I am rushing to feed the cow and I leave the door open, the little cat runs in and hides.  I don't know that - I think it has just gone about it's business...until an hour or two later I see it walking around the house.  I don't have to chase it.  I just open the door and it walks right out with me. 

The cow watches all this and somehow understands that the cats are getting attention.  Cows are kind of interesting.  My cow probably isn't the smartest cow in the world but it comes when I call it and runs and bucks and shows off.  And if I lean over it will put it's head on my neck and wait for me to scratch it's neck and chin but, for the life of me, I can't get it to drink water out of anything but gallon bottles. 

 GET A COW IF YOU DON'T LIKE GEESE FERTILIZING YOUR CROPS!  No one has to shovel goose-shit, but cows are something else again.  Cows are not good watchdogs, either. 

Now it's almost 4am and I'm hungry.  I guess I can make coffee and a couple eggs.

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