021710 Finally!!!

Donny FINALLY took this mailbox post out that has needed to be removed from our front lawn for a VERY long time! When we had our scruffy dog Buffy, she would sometimes escape and chase Joe the mailman. She was definitely all bark and no bite, but the mailman was apparently scared enough of her that he filed a formal complaint! He was no longer required to deliver the mail to the box by our front door so we had to put up a mailbox on a post by the sidewalk. My brother Steve was into woodworking at the time, so he drew up the designs for all the cow parts so I could make a cow mailbox that was popular way back then. But today, the udder is all that's left! I painted the mailbox to look like a black and white Holstein and we attached it to the platform pre-fitted with the udder. Unfortunately I never finished painting or attaching the other cow parts. When I would tell people how to get to our house, I would tell them to look for the half-a-cow-mailbox! One morning we came out and some kids or someone had come by in the middle of the night and knocked the poor half-a-cow-mailbox off the post. It looked like they'd hit it with a baseball bat! Since Joe the mailman had long since retired we got a new mailbox and attached it to the house near the front door...but the post remained by the sidewalk...WAY too long! Thanks Donny for finally digging it out!