Babe, the Blue Cow Named in Honor of Paul Bunyan's Ox

Martin LaBar via Flickr (cc)

I'm going to love Babe - reminds me of the tall tales about this lumberjack. Babe the Blue Ox, Bunyan's companion, was a massive creature with exceptional strength Paul supposedly created the Great Lakes so Babe could have a pond to drink out it.

I'm willing to be that most of you would have thought that it was a tall tale (or a load of bull) that we would buy 20 cows in just over one year through a "giving-small" project.

I had no idea if I could get one cow let alone enough to be one big blue ox.

If we put all these cows together (20 of them) x 1000 pounds we would have 20,000 lb cow or ox, probably the size of Babe.