I remember... Way back there was a fundraiser where if a high school needed new football uniforms. they would hold a cow bingo where they would put big squares on the football field with that white lime stuff and number them and then the sell these 5 square yards or whatever and hire someone to come in with a cow and walk around till the cow moved her bowels that would determine the winner.
now -----I was the proud owner our company called animal episodes so whoever ran these Cow bingos ended up calling me to provide the cow and someone to walk it around.. it paid very well and they made a lot of money for their uniforms with such an undertaking//. Allow me to share with you the behind the scenes of such an undertaking... I would go to Richardson dairy which is not far away they had a large herd of Holstein cows and their herd manager with someone named Maria.. so having cleared the rental or borrowing of the cow with Mr Richardson I then had to find Maria to choose the cow out of a herd of probably 50 cows. Maria always had a favorite cow That was relatively halter broken that she used to bring out as school buses would arrive to look at where the milk came from.. I don't care how clean a dairy is, but any cow I ever borrowed always Needed a good shampooing---so I would pick up the cow bring it home and we would have a cow shampooing episode the day before and hope it didn't get into a big mess the day of---- at any rate---we load the cow on the horse trailer and drive to the athletic field which was all done up in squares.. then someone hired by me... usually Janine.. would walk around that athletic field with the cow for at least an hour when it would either go and they could quit or they would draw a number out of the hat..
it was a ridiculous way then to make a living but I put two kids through respectable colleges Kenyon and. BU With just such ridiculous performances under the corporate name of animal episodes. Consequently I know things like to have a cow at Faneuil Hall marketplace it takes 35 pounds of Kitty litter per cow per hour to stand The cow on that hard sidewalk of Faneuil Hall.. or in a studio with Jerry vandyke.
We did a lot of cow jobs. Also pig jobs..... also mice jobs..... rat jobs..... snake jobs..... bug jobs... along with cats and dogs.
I had a reputation for showing up early with the correct animal.. and then figuring out how to do whatever the camera required which sometimes stretched everybody's imagination.
so back to our cow bingo--- Coming along -----giving up "animal episodes" and starting service dog project as a charity I realized very quickly I was going to need support from somewhere and I remembered the cow bingo.. but I also remembered how much work it was to cope with L 1200 pound cow... so I got the idea of chickens being easier to handle not needing a shampooing and I started selling tickets.. paper tickets and that went well enough and then Janine got the idea of having a friend of hers write a program so we could do it online.. I thought she was crazy who does anything online---however that was 12 years ago... my how the world has changed//
Yesterday we sold out all 2100 numbered chicken brick donations... that is what I have called our payroll support... once that 2100 donations are filled,, we then opened the purple bricks Of which there is an unending supply.
We have also managed to hold a portable chicken table. in the Country Club, at a bar mitzvah, in a retirement home, but yesterday in the heat of the day it was wonderful to be able to spread out our canvas on the floor in the air conditioned comfort of the ICU building where we at 2:00 o'clock put all the numbers on the table on the canvas.. the chickens took awhile to produce anything but by 3:30 we were all very busy removing all the 2100 numbered stickers and folding up our canvas till next month.. we do this on the first Sunday of the month
Once again thank you very much--- And I have opened a new board for the first Sunday of September... how did it get to be September???\\\
here is courtney's first born already learning to be a dog trainer by spoon feeding beef with sweet potatoes to the dog
