It was a delivery like no other. (Or, should I say, no udder?) The box arrived, large, clanking & heavy. And, with an odd hole poked in one of its corners. Protruding from said hole? A funny metal pipe. Black & white. Hmmm…looked vaguely familiar.

When I opened the box, my eyes popped out of my head. The thought going through my mind when I peered into that box was “HOLY COW!” Literally. Holy. Cow.

Before we moved to Albuquerque to open the Cocopotamus chocolate kitchen, I was part of the world’s best book club. Great ladies, wonderful friendships, some books, some noshing, a little wine. You get the picture. But once a year, at our annual cookie exchange & White Elephant gifting, things got a little wacky. The first year we held the event, the funniest gift was a cow. Not just any cow, but a cow wind chime. Black & white, with giant eyes and a very long tail. With huge, drooping “leg” chimes, and a hot flamingo pink udder. (Really!) This was given to a member by her mother-in-law, go figure. It was big. It was bright. It was clunky. It was a real fright!

Cowcopotamus ready for a close up

Cowcopotamus greeting the New Year

The person who received the Cow was sneaky…mid-year, she re-gifted it by leaving it on one of our porches during a dinner party. Next, Ole Bessie made the rounds to this house and that house. Always making a splash, being greeted with those familiar words. HOLY COW!

The next year, the person who’d ended up with her stuck the cow in a really huge box and managed to foist it off on someone at the White Elephant exchange. Again, the cow made its rounds during the year. As it went, it started to acquire accessories. A string of Mardi Gras beads here, a Nike headband there. You get the picture.

The following holiday season, a particularly clever someone wrote a poem that lead to the cow, in order to trick someone into choosing the cow gift. (No one was falling for the big box thing again, let me tell you.)

This year, they decided that the cow needed to greet the new year here at Cocopotamus. Cowcopotamus (as we have dubbed her) arrived dressed to the hilt, repleat with Christmas wreath, poinsettia and more. Hanging in the Cocopotamus kitchen, she looks simply fetching. Turns out our decor was missing something. A certain BOVINE something. A cow in the kitchen is just what we were missing. (Who knew?!??!!!?!?!?)

To the World’s Best Book Club, THANKS GUYS! And, mooooooo………

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