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September 8, 2011

Custer the Buffalo

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Chris and I were talking on our long drive and Big Adventure the other day about things and people that we have experienced over the years.  I have had  a lot of experiences that some folks would think were the slightest bit interesting.   I have shared with you before —my gift.  The gift of mere strangers telling me the most intimate things about themselves.  I guess I am approachable and appear non-judgmental or something–who knows?  All I know is that it makes for some pretty fun conversations and scenarios at times.  My friend, Jen, has told me that I am flypaper for odd.   I like that and may have that put on my tombstone depending on how much it costs….

One thing that came up in conversation the other day during our marathon trek from Iowa to Ohio was about the sweet couple who I happened upon at a nursing home when I was doing a hospice visit.   There were some goings ons in the activity room and that is where I found my lady that day.  A couple was celebrating their 60th anniversary and they invited everyone who was on the floor down for cake and ice cream so of course I was in !!!   I struck up a conversation with the wife of the couple and somehow we got on the conversation of the unusual pet they had—a buffalo named Custer.

Custer was bought on a whim from someone when he was just a young pup.  I guess buffalos are not pups but you get the point. They got Custer when he was little.   Custer joined them on their little acreage (that is what we Iowans call a little farmette or a house with a little land) and grew to become quite a large specimen of a buffalo.  Custer tended to get out of the fence and would wander away frequently.  The wife would go find him , talk to him and then he would eventually follow her home.   Custer got really big.   Did I mention that before?   At one point the meter reader decided enough was enough because Custer liked to hang out close to the house.  A letter came in the mail with the instructions of how the occupants were now going to have to read their own meter and send it in to the company because of the buffalo in the yard.

Time went on and Custer got a little rambunctious. The fence could not longer keep him in.  He was born to wander I guess and did it one time too often.  Custer went to the locker.  And when I say locker I do not mean a locker where you keep your notebooks and pencils.  Poor Custer went to the meat locker.   The wife said it was a little sad when she mowed after that because she always raked the sweet grass over into the fenced area where Custer was supposed to be —guess he had a sweet spot for newly mown grass.  As we finished our conversation she said that she missed Custer but boy—-that was some good hamburger…….

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  1. TBM
    September 08, 2011 at 08:03 am

    Oh man….poor Custer!

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  2. Sendie-Lou
    September 08, 2011 at 03:07 pm

    Oh my gosh.. that last comment got me! hahahaha

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  3. [email protected] Sandwich
    September 08, 2011 at 10:01 pm

    Oh my gosh! Nooooo Custer! I just don’t think this little city girl could eat someone I knew! 🙁

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  4. Karen and Gerard
    September 09, 2011 at 05:58 am

    That is the most unusual pet I ever heard of. Very sad they wound up eating it! I don’t think I could eat a pet.

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  5. pattisj
    September 09, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    A buffalo? That’s too funny. Not sure I could eat a pet either, but one never knows what circumstances will arise. I’ll chip in for a letter on the tombstone, if I’m still around…love your friend’s, “flypaper for odd.”

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    1. Beth Ann
      September 10, 2011 at 06:59 am

      Great—I have one “investor” for my tombstone!! Good to know! I will get back to you!!!

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  6. CMSmith
    September 10, 2011 at 06:34 am

    Oh my. I guess it happens a lot in farm country with cows or chickens or what-not. And I eat meat, so I don’t have room to talk, but that is a sad story.

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    1. Beth Ann
      September 10, 2011 at 06:59 am

      I eat meat too but I think it would have been really hard to take a package of Custer out of the freezer….

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  7. Helen Brown
    September 12, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    You told me that story and I laughed. I grew up on a farm and had all kinds of pets–dog, lambs, chickens and kittens. I never ate a pet but I surely ate meat.

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    1. Beth Ann
      September 13, 2011 at 06:16 am

      I don’t know that I could eat a “pet” either—-it would be a little hard to se it thawing on the counter, huh???

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