{"id":40606,"date":"2013-07-16T00:09:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T07:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=40606"},"modified":"2013-07-16T00:09:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T07:09:23","slug":"driving-ms-daisy-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/40606","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Miss Daisy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tFor\u00a0the cow book that I’m writing, I wanted to experience the process of buying a mail-order bride cow (seriously). It involved hiring a trucker, wading through\u00a0state-by-state animal regulations, vet checks, vaccines, respiratory “flu”\u00a0shots, TB tests, and yes,\u00a0purchasing animal transportation\u00a0insurance. Phew.<\/p>\n

I even had to learn how to text because the trucker told me that was the only way he would communicate the details of our\u00a0rendezvous. Trailer talk. So, when I finally backed\u00a0my trailer up to his, it was a BIG thumbs-up moment. And then …<\/p>\n

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and then …<\/p>\n

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and then …<\/p>\n

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Miss Daisy!!!<\/p>\n

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She’d left her home several states away four weeks earlier and had been shuttled around somewhat with stops in between sessions on the road. She was, well, dubious?<\/p>\n

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Come on, sweetie pie. I have a pasture and organic alfalfa pellets waiting for you.<\/p>\n

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When I pulled up back home, the girls at the farm came out to meet her.<\/p>\n

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Come on, pumpkin pie.<\/p>\n

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It’s been a long ride, but honey pie, pooky pooh, I’m gonna smother you in love and kisses.<\/p>\n

Daisy is a year-and-a-half-old miniature Jersey and able to be bred soon. You know the old saying … if you’re old enough to go to the store, you’re old enough to get “bread.”<\/p>\n

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For\u00a0the cow book that I’m writing, I wanted to experience the process of buying a mail-order bride cow (seriously). It involved hiring a trucker, wading through\u00a0state-by-state animal regulations, vet checks, vaccines, respiratory “flu”\u00a0shots, TB tests, and yes,\u00a0purchasing animal transportation\u00a0insurance. Phew. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}