I suspect if I refer to our December Saturday Century ride as the Blackberry Cobbler Ride many of you will know what I'm talking about. I was able to join the group again today and do the 100+ miles and we actually averaged over 18 mph since there was hardly any wind.

Anyway, I don't think I've seen a cow do this before. For the second week in a row a cow had gotten out of the pasture along our route. This week it was a bull and a pretty large one at that. He was walking along the road beside the pasture and was really spooked when 25 of us came riding along out of nowhere. We were also very nervous as the bull was darting all around and we could not tell which way he was going to go. Those riders that were wearing bright red were especially worried!! If the bull had darted out in the road it would have looked a lot like a bowling ball busting through the pins at a bowling alley.

What happend next took us all by surprise. We had the cow so spooked he took about 2 strides and JUMPED Over the barbed wire pasture fence that was a good 4-5 fee tall. I'm sure all of you have heard of Angus, Jersey, Holstein's and Hertford's-well we called this an "Olympic Cow" for his incredible high-jumping feat. It could very well have been a world record for a cow....Maybe there is a little truth to the cow jumping over the moon thing after all. Makes you wonder what they had been feeding this fellow.......

Oh yeah-the blackberry cobbler was just as good as last week......