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Cow #11 Needs a Name

Yes, we're fresh out of names.

Here's the names so far:

Note: We didn't officially name the first 3 cows, so I have named the first two in honor of the cows I milked when I was growing up on a farm in southern Saskatchewan.

Cow #1 - Dolly, after the Holstein milk cow on Darlene's farm
Cow #2 - Blacky, after the Black Angus milk cow on Darlene's farm
Cow #3 - Daisy, just a name I picked out of the air
Cow #4 - Clarabelle
Cow #5 - Adia
Cow #6 - Oreo
Cow #7 - Buttercup
Cow #8 - Crocus
Cow #9 - Spot
Cow #10 - Luna

Calling All Members of the Cow "Herd" to Suggest Names

Suggest names for the next 10 cows? Leave a comment, email me or phone. I need at least 10 names ... 20 would be safer. This is your chance to name a cow.

Do we stick to cows or spice things up for the holiday season?

What would motivate you and make you think - wow - we did that?

We can do lots of things. Perhaps we could buy a pig, goat, 3 chickens & rooster, a beehive, and other livelihood gifts?.

If we did all the gifts on this page it would be $1875 ... if we did all but the last one it's $875.

Or do we want to branch out and do Education, Health, or Habitat gifts. It would be hard to do all of the projects on some of these pages as some are $40,000 in the next 6 weeks till Christmas.

Or do something Local again? Other ideas? Please comment, email, phone me? Looking for great ideas and then all of you will have a chance to react.

First things first

What cow path should we take now? Something special for the holidays? ( surveys)

If you said "Yes" do something special or if you are following the herd

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Welcome. My name is Darlene and I hope that you'll join the "Giving Small" community and lend a helping hoof.

We are raising money to buy dairy cows for families in Bangladesh and Africa, the gift of a livelihood.

Since April 2008, we have gifted many cows: Dolly, Blacky, Daisy, Clarabelle, Oreo, Adia, Buttercup, Crocus, Spot, Luna, Elise, Coco and Inger. We're working on cows #15 as of January 1, 2009.

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11 Comments:

At November 10, 2008 at 6:44 AM , Gordon Holtslander said...: Hey Darlene, Just realized how quickly the 'giving small' project has moved as I was looking at the blurb about the blog and it has this line, "We are now raising funds for Cow #4 to sent to a family in Africa."
However, here are some cow names:
Amity
Quaff
Amistad
Dagmar
Sidsel
Inger
Juness
Gabrielle
Cadence
Calliope
Argos
Belaphron
Sigil
Isadore
Lucille
Ruby
Isabelle
Shobi
Dobias
Rosalie
At November 10, 2008 at 7:39 AM , GnP said...: I think that our next cow should be named Darlene. This name would honour the efforts of our own Darlene whose imaginatiion and enthusiasm for making a difference has created this wonderful venture. For other names, I suggest consulting a wonderful little essay I discovered on the Internet this morning (isn't Google great). You will find the essay at http://prizedwriting.ucdavis.edu/past/1995-1996/elko.html
At November 10, 2008 at 10:26 AM , Anonymous said...: In the Christmas season I think it would be a good community endeavor to help our own community :) There are many families who do not have the funds to get a nice holiday meal let alone warm clothing for our Saskatchewan winters. Perhaps we could bring more awareness to the cow efforts while helping Saskatoon stay warm and fed? I have been looking into which organization to do something like this on my own but I have yet to find one I really want to support...
At November 10, 2008 at 11:22 AM , Anonymous said...: Cow names:

cowabunga
cowlick
mos-cow (Moscow)
wil-cow (wilco)
triple sal cow (salchow)

Earl
At November 10, 2008 at 1:08 PM , Anonymous said...: On cow names... hmm... inspired by "Luna," I'm wondering about things that sound like Latin for "milk" - e.g., "Lactacia" or "Lacta"... or what are the words for "cow" in other languages? Vacta? that's not right - Vacha? (no, my French is long gone, obviously!)
anyhow... a little idea that might be pursued by better brains than mine!
-suzanne in rochester, ny
At November 10, 2008 at 5:01 PM , Fichter said...: Suzanne

Well my Latin is non-existent but you're very close with vacha - it's vache in French and the great song Carmen Campagne, "Pas capable de tirer ma vache" - Not able to milk my cow. :-)

Thanks all for the ideas.
Darlene
At November 10, 2008 at 5:03 PM , Fichter said...: I love moscow. I always wondered how to spell to spell salchow in figuring skating and why there was a "cow" in that.

I can see it now a cow on skates.

Darlene
At November 10, 2008 at 5:06 PM , Fichter said...: Ashlee

I like the idea of doing something local. Even if we just did something extra for the food bank -- they help so many people.

Maybe the folks from Spectrum on the "cow" list can tell us what might help their organization out - they help seniors and other folks on the West Side caught in the credit crunch.

Let me know if you hear of anything - if anyone knows something local please email me, or comment.
At November 10, 2008 at 5:09 PM , Fichter said...: LOL

The Internet has everything (I swear) ... click the link below to find

"HOW TO NAME A COW: A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE

Alexander Elko"

Mooo-valous!
At November 10, 2008 at 5:11 PM , Fichter said...: Yikes - I'll fix that header from 4 to the more current number

Where did these names come from - are they all members of the Holtslander clan????

I haven't heard of most of these.

Darlene
At November 11, 2008 at 3:30 PM , Frank Cervone said...: How about "Elsie"? She was very famous here in the '60's as the cow with the best milk. I forget the dairy but that name, at least to me, is synonymous with cow.

Frank

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