Sunday was Cow Pie Bingo Day in Portland. Kathryn Nekoie needed to raise several thousand dollars for charity in order to run in the New York Marathon this November. She chose the charity Kids First, and to raise the money she rented a cow from Smiling Hill Farm and offered for sale 400 raffle tickets at $10 each; each ticket gave the purchaser rights to claim one "square," about 2 feet by 2 feet, in a little pasture marked with lime and orange fencing on the Lyman Moore Middle School ballfield. If the cow pooped on your square, you won $500. The winner was the purchaser of Square 215, Lisa Naweel, Kathryn's husband's sister. The cow's name was Isabel, and she rents out at $300 for this sort of event. She was pregnant, and this was her very first Bingo affair. The farmer who chaperoned her for the event said that Isabel's attention was mostly focused on investigating whether or not the fence was electrified, a distinction she had learned to divine with her whiskers. She only had a few whiskers. Kathryn said the fund-raising was successful, and now she could concentrate on training for the marathon.
At the refreshmen stand, Schattie Nekoie was looking forward to wearing the tablecloth for her Halloween costume, but she wouldn't tell me what kind of costume it would be.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, my tomatoes are still green, but still growing. They were planted July 1--late. I forget what kind of tomato they are scheduled to become.
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