Cow Patty Bingo

Interesting Fact: The average cow produces 30lbs of urine and 65lbs pounds of faeces daily.

I know what you are thinking...Cows again...this is a good one..keep reading. Picture this...It is a beautiful Saturday in middle rural Georgia. Looking for something to do that was free and entertaining, I decided it would be a great Idea to take the family, my friends Lusia and her daughter, and of course Mary Sue to downtown Eatonton Georgia. The Plaza Arts Center was featuring Agricultural Awareness. There were old tractors, FFA displays, and a display on farm life. It was a wonderful view into histories past. (I really enjoyed the history aspect) They also has a petting zoo complete with a cow, chickens, goats and pigs. You can imagine how thrilled Maryann (the other fact chick) was, has she has been wanting to pet a calf since we moved her. Well, as much as she loved the calf...she was enthrauled by the pigglets (I must admitt they were very cute) She got to hold the pigglet and it snuggled under her chin. She was in love with it and wanted to take it home...Then of course my Georgia husband said, yeah in about six months, we'll be eat'n good. He is always looking to eat...(good thing I can cook or he might starve). When we finally left the petting zoo, I found Mary Sue, blunking down money on a bingo game...I LOVE BINGO! I wanted to play too. Turns out I was playing COW PATTY BINGO...Now, sit down for this one...ARe you sitting okay...This was not my grandmother's bingo..(She used to bring me to bingo with her when I was a little girl....) There were no ink dabbers, there were no bingo cards, no balls with numbers floating around in an air machine, no caller shouting "B 7". No there was none of this...Instead, there was a grid on a paper, you put your name in the square you wanted to bet on, the cost for a chance $3...the look on my face priceless...Turns out that once the grid on the paper is filled up, they take the calf to a field with the same grid on it and wait to see where she is going to do her "business" Wa-La...Cow Patty Bingo... (which is never to be confused with Beach Blanket Bingo) I don't know why they are called cow "patties"..They look nothing like a hamburger patty, nor a peppermint patty..there is nothing "patty" about them... A couple of questions to ponder...What if the cow "patty" lands between two squares?...What if it lands on four corners? or better yet what if the cow is constipated...Then what..the game is called on count of no poop! Do they return the money? I still don't know if I won or lost...I had to leave before 3:00 or when the calf was ready to do her business. And if you read the interesting fact above, 65 pounds is one heck of a patty!

You must think by now that I am crazy, maybe even two kinds of crazy, but I am telling you, you can't make this stuff up...This stuff really happens in Georgia...I Love it here and I am never moving!

P.S. The pig above are the one's Maryann got to hold...The cow patty bingo sign was the actual sign from the Ag. Awareness event....