Cow Story

[Guest guest]

As a new member I would like to introduce myself with

this story. I sent it to other groups so the names at

the start don't apply to this group.

Dennis

--- Dennis Trainor <dent16353 wrote:

> Before I start I would like to say I have posted

> this

> story in another group as a reply to an essay by

> M.D.

> on power. I think his writings are great and I

> think

> it is interesting that I am still reading his posts

> in

> this new group because I am here mostly by

> intuition.

> Maybe some things are meant to happen.

> Also I published this story in a magazine called

> Plain. I got a little money for it but I don't think

> it would upset anyone for me to post it here.

>

> When we bought the cows (which was Kathy's idea)

> everyone we knew agreed we had no chance of making

> it

> work. I looked at the endeavor as a spiritual

> experience right from the start. Getting the money

> to

> buy the cows,moving them from the barn we bought

> them

> from,finding and setting up another barn to bring

> them

> to,hauling away the manure with just a young,green

> pair of horses,and feeding them with no land and no

> equipment was all one miracle after another for me.

> For a year we milked the 30 or so cows we bought

> and lived off the sale of the milk. Then one day

> the

> man we were renting the barn from decided he was

> going

> to quit his job and milk cows for a living. He

> figured if idiots like us could make it, he should

> have no trouble at all. So he wanted us out of his

> barn right away. I remeber telling Kathy we had to

> wait for God to come into the barn.

> Things got very tense after awhile because the

> owner didn't want us there. I told a friend to

> watch

> closely because I was going to pass a herd of cows

> through the eye of a needle. And sure enough God

> came

> into the barn in the form of a cattle dealer who

> moved

> us to our third barn 50 miles away. After landing on

> the farm a man I didn't know came up and told me he

> was going to take back his mower. I told him that

> at

> this point in my life I didn't think anyone had the

> power to take away anything I really needed. He

> never

> did take that mower away.

> We had rented this farm for three years when the

> owner told us he wasn't getting rich on the amount

> of

> rent we were paying him. I knew it was time to move

> again but this time to our own place, not a rented

> place. Moving to Pennsylvania was the greatest

> miracle of all. I had never even heard of the Amish

> religion in Massachusetts,but when I started meeting

> these people and understanding how they lived I knew

> we were led to the right place. They thought it

> very

> amusing to have 'English' (non Amish) people from

> Massachusetts who used horses and didn't know much

> about farming buy one of their farms.

>

> Dennis

>

>

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