PROMPT -© Marie Gail Stratford
THE COW JUMPED OVER THE MOON
All the corn plants were to be shredded and put into the tower as silage. The crop was large, so ten-year-old Billy’s job was to tromp it down, so it all fit.
He brought one of their cows in through the little bottom door to help him. For several boring hours, he and Bossy had plodded ‘round and ‘round.
Finally the level neared the top, and his Dad yelled that they were done. “Just back out that little hatch, and climb down the ladder.”
MOOO!
“A cow?? You took a cow in there??! How is she going to climb down??!”
Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
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Archon's Den 
Big parachute?
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Why don’t blind people skydive??
D’yever hear a German Shepherd scream at 10,000 feet?? 😯
That’s nothin’ compared to a cow, at 50 feet.
Bring the tractor; we’ll try para-sailin’ her.
Nah! Carrying a barbecue up, is easier than getting her down. Nom, nom! 😀
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A bit of a problem methinks! Nice one.
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Supposedly based on a true story, but I don’t believe everything I read – even if I wrote it. 🙄
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They’re going to need to bring in the heavy equipment – poor Bessy needs to get out of there. Very funny.
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Where’s Tinkerbelle when we really need her??! 😳
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Ten year olds are not known for thinking ahead :-). Fun story!
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A lot of 10-year-olds can’t think ahead – even when they’re 35 or 40. 😦
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Hehe, solving that problem will give them stories to tell for years. Poor Bessy, fun story.
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And if they get paid as much for their stories as I do for mine….
As long as the tales center on the poor cow. I’d hate to hear, “This here’s Billy. He’s 26, and still goin’ to school – on the short bus!” 😳
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Bit of a logistics problem there😀
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I read a list just yesterday of Facts? – Or Urban Legends?, including,
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no-one knows why. – and
You can lead a cow up a flight of stairs…but not down.
Whatever the solution is, it will be complex and expensive, but not a stairway.
It was good for a chuckle….and a Flash Fiction. 🙂
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And it seemed like such a great idea at the time… 🙂 Great story! My story involves a cow, too. Go figure…
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All this problem-solving is making me hungry. Do you like filet mignon? 😉
Now I’m off to see what you did to Bossy’s poor friend, or she, to you. 😕
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I’m vegan. No flesh for me!
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Steak? A fun read 🙂
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That’s what I suggested above. Carry the barbecue up.
Thanx for stopping in. 🙂
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What a cute story! Poor Bossy, though. Not a good ending for him 😦
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With only a hundred words, the ending is not written yet. Perhaps Bossy gets to live in the penthouse all winter….they’ll need a milking stool with Lonngg legs 😉
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I think Bossy would have an easier time eating her way back down than I would climbing down a ladder that high! Fun story; you perfectly captured the kid not thinking things through.
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Not much for heights or ladders??
Lots of people aren’t taught to think things through, which explains politicians and priests, who invent their own jobs. 🙄
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Hilarious, Archon. a crane perhaps? 😀
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We’d need a giant Roc….Oh, that kind of crane. 😳
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Very funny! But had he never heard that old saying, don’t take a cow with you when you tromp the silage?
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No, but he’d heard that you can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, you’re a winner on America’s Got Talent! 😉 😕
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Cow-abunga!!!!
Oops. By the time she eats her way out, she be bigger than the fatted calf.
Randy
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Hey! Who you callin’ a fatted calf??….Oh – that one. Right!
Lotsa cow-dung-ah by the time they’re done. 😉
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That’s a good question? Poor moo-moo stuck!
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I’m glad you stuck around to read about her. Tune in same time next week, when the dish and the spoon serve her as stew to the hired hands. 😳
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My maternal grandfather and the boys liked to whoop it up on Halloween — they were all tricks. Knocking over outhouses (I hope empty ones) and several times getting cows on roofs of buildings — or so the legend goes.
Unfortunately, the secret of getting the cow off the roof died with him.
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Should I be glad I live in a different (section of the) country? 😳
I’m glad you stopped in to read my tale – and relate yours. Come again. 🙂
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I thoroughly enjoyed the visit. I will take up your invitation!
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😀
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Oh! So that’s why the price of beef is going up? 😛
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