Yesterday, we had the dairy people come to our school.
Never mind that both the temperature and the wind were hovering at around 40. Yes, that's 40 degrees and 40 mph. {Makes for a lovely combination if you're outside!}
This is the dairy lady and Tiny her cow.
The dairy lady was pretty smart. She started off by having us all say "ewwww." And after we did, she said we couldn't say that again during the whole day, because everything that Tiny did was natural and what she was supposed to do.
And then she talked about using cow poop for fertilizer. Ha, good thing we had already said our one Ewww for the day!
Then she explained that Tiny had to be about two years old and have a calf before she would produce milk. I'm such a city girl {even in this rural community} that I didn't know that - what a duh! And that cows don't have udders - they have one udder with four parts. {Oh, I bet my blogging friend Alyce is laughing at me now!}
The dairy lady said that the milk we drink from the store has never been touched by human hands - hmm, interesting. She wiped the udder, and dried it and hooked it up to a pumping machine - and there came the milk!
I wasn't sure how much of this connected with my kids - especially since we might have spent some of time thinking about how really freezing cold we were. But once we got back inside {and I left my coat on!} I asked them about it - and they could name all the steps to getting the milk, including the calf part.
Oh yeah! this was good!
