Cardboard Cow

So Tex arrived yesterday in this box

Just skinny and flat.

As I unpacked the bovine head it became more complex. This picture is just half of the pieces.

The directions were vague and one page.

I put the longhorn in the living room and Rick was fine with it, but it was just too cardboardy. So Tex is at home in the master bedroom which is kind of outdoorsy and informal. He seems happy there.

I tried to make another burlap wreath to go with Tex in the living room and it looked like poo. So I scrapped that. Plus I burned the heck out of my fingers with the glue gun. Why are those things so lethal?

I am happy to report that the hair appointment went pretty well. I kept telling her NOT to cut it and she listened. Now all I have to do is figure out how to style it while it grows.  I tend to want to rip it out if it gets unmanageable. I'm calm like that, you know.

The headache returned later today, but it's not as bad as it was. I got the house cleaned before it got too bad. (The headache, not the house. Was I the only one confused there?)

Rooster called and read a "book" to me today. It was about a van and giving a ride to people. I just love hearing him read. But I always congratulate him before the end. He pauses and I just assume it's over. Sometimes I can't hear the individual words of the scintillating stories that well over the phone. I tend to think it's Rooster's enunciation rather than my aging hearing. I'm just gonna go with that.