Bessie's New Look
It's been longer than we planned, but Bessie finally has a new look. It was a cold icy day in January 2011 when she was pried out of the ice and away from her home at Shanty Hollow deep in the woods of Kentucky. She had lived on the hill near the country road for many years and had seen quite a few makeovers. Nobody argued that she was in need of some TLC. She was placed indignantly in the back of the open trailer and trundled up to Dayton, OH, facing backwards toward the south all the way. I'm sure startling other drivers and passengers. Ohio was to be her new home and the story of the trials and tribulations getting her there is told in this short poem. A few months, (yes only 5 months) later our world turned topsy turvy again and we sold everything practically, packed up and Bessie came with us to Florida. Again it was quite the effort to get this solid cement bovine who is standing upon a solid cement patch of gra...