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I love calves. I remember several times when Ben would come home with one in the front of his cab of the truck, like a dog. Most importantly, I remember my Stormy. She was a breathtakingly beautiful pure white calf. Sadly, she developed pneumonia and died at about a month old.
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First, that whole ring in the nose looks super uncomfortable. Second, where did your love of cows come from? I'm sure you've mentioned it somewhere, but I just don't remember.
So stinkin' cute!!! We have a small dairy farm just up the road from us here and the kids love to see the cows outside when we drive by. Adorable little guys!!! How lucky you got such up close and personal encounters with them!
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First, that whole ring in the nose looks super uncomfortable. Second, where did your love of cows come from? I'm sure you've mentioned it somewhere, but I just don't remember.
It was because of where we lived when I was growing up. There were always cows in the fields surrounding us and I realised how lovely they were as creatures. That's also where the love of Eeyore started, as we had a donkey called Laddie in our field (sadly no more ) and he was just adorable, miserable as anything, but adorable.
Wednesday 30 December – part three: they use champagne towers for what?
We headed back, going a different way this time, driving through historic Oxford, as the signs said. It wasn’t exactly the same as the historic Oxford that I know at home, shall I say.
We drove Joe back to his, with me profusely thanking him for taking us out to the farm. It had been so much fun.
We headed back towards the lodge.....
Steve decided to show me around the Caesar’s Pocono Palace that is right next door to them. It soon became apparent that Steve had either never visited this place or had only been many years ago. Ironically, the place changed name later that day – it’s now part of the Cove group, so we were there on the last day of Caeser’s.
We drove around first with him showing me the cabins that we had been able to see from the other side of the lake.
Then he showed me some of the exterior of some of the more expensive rooms. I wasn’t quite sure what he was talking about when he talked about the champagne towers, but I later logged on to their website to see what facilities the rooms had and then I got it at once. Have a look if you’re not sure and you’ll see what I mean... http://www.covepoconoresorts.com/resorts/poconopalace.aspx
I think it's great that you got to pick the brain of a working farmer in the US. That is not something that the vast majority of "tourists" from the UK get to experience.
I'm so glad you took the pictures of some of those cats. You really have no clue unless you actually see it. I was totally prepared for all of the cows because I grew up in dairy farm country. Of course, most of the farms have been sold off for development now. I was not prepared for the sight of all of those cats.
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Wednesday 30 December – part four: creating their own snow?
We then headed back to the reception and went inside for a look around in the reception area....
.... then into the restaurant, which had some beautiful views across the lake....
... then the bar area.....
... and finally the gift shop, as I thought that I might get a generic Pocono fridge magnet here, but I was out of luck, as the only ones they had were from the resort, rather than the area as a whole. We were both more impressed with it than we thought we would be and they were even doing snow blowing outside to create their own snow, which was pretty neat.
We headed back outside towards the house and were going to go and join Sue and Mark for lunch, but they had just got another shout, so that idea went out of the window. Instead, we headed inside the house and had some pasta for lunch, which was very nice. We kept an ear on the radio and it sounded like, after the first couple of hours with no shouts at all, they were now having a busy day. I took the time to get caught up on my trip report and online.
We then headed out, hoping that Sue and Mark wouldn’t get any more calls in the meantime on the way. Steve sopped at the state liquor store to stock up for tomorrow night’s party. I’m fascinated by this whole state liquor store business. I was saying to Steve that, at home, anyone can sell alcohol, provided you have a licence and it’s not uncommon for take-aways to sell alcohol, along with all the supermarkets. It seems like it’s much more readily available at home.
We then went via Shawnee Mountain, which gave me my first opportunity to see it in the daylight. Sue had told me that you could see it from their house at night, but so far, I hadn’t seen anything from there, although I had tried looking for it. I couldn’t believe how many hundreds of skiers there were there. The place was packed. Mind you, I guess I should’ve expected that, as it was the week between Christmas and New Year after all....
We went past Buttermilk Falls that we had passed a couple of days ago and I was able to get a photo of that this time. All around were beautiful villages again with lovely old houses.
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Second, where did your love of cows come from? I'm sure you've mentioned it somewhere, but I just don't remember.
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) and he was just adorable, miserable as anything, but adorable. 
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