Back in the Day of Black Cows

Today, Papa Bear ripped out our kitchen window and made an even bigger hole in the wall to put in a larger one. It was the LAST original window in this place that was here when we moved in almost 20 years ago. Being the kitchen window, it's especially exciting for me; I can't wait to wake up in the morning to it. He has changed out every other window in this place, and has framed in quite a few new ones himself, as well, so this was a milestone of sorts. We celebrated afterwards with root beer floats, because it's #BlackCowDay and apparently, we like cold sweets 'round here? The Black Cow, as it was originally known, was invented in August of 1893 by a man named Frank J. Wisner of Cripple Creek, Colorado using Myers Avenue Red Root Beer. That was 26 whole years before this A&W even came around in 1919, the same year my Pap was born! Meanwhile, breakfast cereal was only invented 30 years before the Black Cow, which is crazy to think! Things were harder, yet so much simpler, back then. There were only so many options and you had to make everything from scratch. Necessity is the mother of invention, they say. They lived on the bare necessities, and that's why they invented things, because they were needed. We have much different needs today and so many more ways to have them met. Imagine, back in the day, ol' Frank looked up at the full moon over Cow Mountain and thought it looked like a giant scoop of vanilla ice cream, and then he had the idea to put some root beer on it, and nobody else had done that yet, as far as he knew, all those years ago. Far out. So, tomorrow morning I'll be gazing out of the kitchen window down into the woods, musing: "Where does the time go?" #CelebrateEveryDay