F#@*$%! COWS!

We've figured out why we eat cows:  BECAUSE THEY DESERVE IT!

Seriously.   They're big, stupid and destructive.

All property improvement has been halted until we can get a fence around the "Domestead", and we've got to find a way to keep our idiot bovine food... ahem, - I mean friends - from climbing the edge of our culvert and pulling the damn thing apart. 

This is what it used to look like:

It doesn't look so good now.... We had a heck of a time getting the Subaru off the land without getting bogged down.  There's a good chance that by the time we get back up there with cow-go-the-heck-away stuff, we won't be able to get ON the land either!  Grrr.

They also did what we didn't expect: climbing directly on top of and over and along the berm, tearing down a bunch of dirt and undoing many hours worth of work from just 5 days ago. 

They did a job on the dome too.  Trampling the earthbags... 

and pulling off the lathe holding it together:

By the time we get back up there, even more damage will probably be done, so we've decided to stop digging until we can get some pickets, barbed wire and electric fencing up.  Grrr.  We knew they could go wherever they wanted, but we had no idea they'd trample over everything, even if it wasn't exactly cow-friendly.  Stupid cows.