Overheard

Last night we made a trip to the Oklahoma City Stockyards to haul off a couple cows who were no longer pulling their weight around the farm. We got there early enough that they were still selling calves and we got to visit the sale ring. Ryder was in heaven. He was very curious about the process, where the calves were coming from and where they were going. As we were leaving, we got behind a truck and trailer hauling off a load a calves. Ryder was obsessed with it. I chose to use it as a learning experience ...

Ryder: Where is that truck going?

Me: He is taking those calves to a farm or a feed lot.

Ryder: Why?

Me: That is how this works. People like us have cows, and those cows have baby calves. We bring our calves here and sell them. People buy them and trucks like that haul the babies off to farms where people feed the calves until they get big.

Ryder: Why?

Me: Once they grow big, they sell them and turn them into meat people can eat like hamburger.

Trent: And bologna.

Ryder: And ice tea?

Silence ....

Ryder: Where is that truck going?

Me: That way.

It may have been to soon.