Wednesday, August 24, 2011

milking a cow

Last night they all went to a farm to get some milk. Emilio found a basket for all the hedgehogs, Freddy, and Gustave to ride in and Al latched onto that and took them all together. They were supposed to sit still but Ed & Ted ran around like crazy the whole time so it was a bit of a rocky ride.  Al tried to fly smoothly and straight but ended up veering off in every direction.  When they got to the farm he gently set the basket on the ground, then flew a little further to safely tuck and roll for his landing.

Before getting started, Alphonso put on a white suit (like the decontamination suits the CSI guys wear, without the face/breathing apparatus .. his face was still showing) to keep himself clean. They chose a brown cow so they could get chocolate milk and were very disappointed that it doesn't work that way.

Then Alphonso, Emilio, Jorgé, Chico, Luigi and Freddy all took turns hanging from and pulling on the cow's udder to pull out the milk. Gustave hummed to keep them in time ... hm hm hm hm hm squirt squirt, squirt squirt ... hm hm hm hm hm squirt squirt, squirt squirt ...

Ed & Ted each had a glass to hold underneath on a stool to catch the milk, running from squirt to squirt, but every time the gang took a break to see how much milk they had Ed & Ted had drank it all.  Once they had gotten all the milk from the cow and everyone was ready to have a drink they saw Ed & Ted lying back to back with bellies full of milk and nothing in the glasses.  Everyone was a bit disappointed and still thirsty but they had fun milking the cow so it was a good day.  They all piled into the basket and Al flew them back home.

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