Cowntinuing Problems

So last night I was home alone, happily watching Al Gore's Vice Presidential Action Rangers on Futurama, when the dogs started barking furiously at the front door.  I went out to see what the fuss was all about, and discovered about nine cows wandering around the property.  I herded them back out the gate, shut it behind them...and then learned that I had missed one, a small black cow standing in thick brush.

I had to go open the gate again.  As I did , Maryelizabeth came home.  During the time it took to get the gate open and circle back behind the cow to herd it forward it had vanished.  The moon, one night past the full pink, rose late last night.  It turns out that finding a single smallish black cow on a big piece of property on a pitch black night is very hard to do, even for two people using bright flashlights.

Finally, we got it out the gate and gone.  At around 3:00 this morning, the dogs woke up, sniffing and growling at something outside.  We still don't know what, but a look around in daylight has convinced us that it's not yet another stray cow that somehow eluded us during the night...