The More Continued Story of Hope

     Once Hope entered our herd, her life became more normal. She had other cows to hang out with and presently, calving season came along. The anticipation in the house grew as we waited eagerly for her first calf. It finally came on May 19, almost three months after calving season began because she had been bred later then the other cows. Farm Boy and I were so enthralled that we made a birth announcement celebrating the arrival of Jesse Christian Dietrich. The following year she gave birth to Remington Roderick, the next Poseidon, and then last year Mocha Benoit.

     Hope was in with all the other cows and  Farm Boy and I would go out to visit her quite often. This gave us a lot of time on our hands, so we began making up a story about Hope in which she was a super cow leading a band of heroes. We called it, appropriately, Hope's Heroes.

     In Hope’s Heroes, Hope takes the role of the main hero. Their mission is to thwart the evil plans of a Longhorn bull named Ecirocil. I'm not certain what all he did, but he had an underground lair in some rocky cliffs nearby and was experimenting with some chemicals. I guess he was your usual evil, villainous, nasty-wasty bloke.