Cows

Interesting Fact: Cows produce 200 times more gas a day than humans.......

Hello everyone! Let me start by introducing my self....My name is Gloria. I am a 46 almost 47 year old woman that moved to Green County Georgia from Palm Beach County Florida 4years ago with my two children. The first question that always comes up is, Why? This was asked by everyone I met upon moving here.. Oh...I didn't just move by myself..the entire family moved. You see, I am of Italian decent and we tend to stick together. So, we moved as a group, my two parents, my sister, her son, my two children and of course me. I got tired of explaining the real reason we moved ( We wanted a change. Life in Palm Beach was becoming way to congested and I wanted to raise my kids in a quieter atmosphere), so we stated telling people we were in witness protection...believe it or not, I think some people believed it.

Now let me put things in perspective for you...Palm Beach County has approx 1.3 million residence...Greene County Georgia a little over 14,000. In Palm Beach County...There are no dairy farms...Greene County Georgia has many dairy farms, not to mention it's neighboring county, Putnam, which is the states dairy capitol... I have had the honor and the privilege to teach in both counties, and no matter which roads (two lanes of course and only 1 traffic light in 23 miles) I would encounter cows on my daily ride to and from work. For a "city" girl....I thought I had time warped into Lisa Douglas from Greenacres...I loved seeing the cows everyday, the one thing I still have not gotten used to is the smell.... Since my sister and I teach at the same school (this will be a story for another day) we ride together...there is this one really big diary farm on our way to school that we have loving named "the stinky cow farm". When ever my mom calls and wants to know where we are on our way home, we reply"we just passed the stinky cow farm" and she knows exactly where we are. My Georgia friends tell me you get used to that smell..this is something I can't imagine.