Today was a day for getting things done outside. After the lass’ Tee Ball game this morning, I mowed the lawn, followed by fixing the collapsed wood pile (permanently I hope), then putting in edging around gardens as well as edging others.
The lass helped the Wife with some garden shopping and the boy helped out with some of the edging. But they were tired of it all by mid-afternoon. So after building mud puddles and playing in water, they took a break and started looking at one of their animal books.
I noticed the giggling, but didn’t think anything of it. They could’ve been looking at pictures of some weird animal for all I knew. I’d gone to grab a couple of stones I was installing as edging around a garden.
Then the boy asked “Dad, how come a cow poops out it’s baby?”
And it was about all I could do to not drop the stones. Dang, why can’t there be some kind of warning about incoming questions like that? Like a siren or something, or maybe a voice “WARNING: Impending question that will sound hilarious…”
So anyway, I recovered after a moment or two. Then tried to explain that cows don’t poop out their babies. It just looks like that in the pictures…