It is Friday afternoon. Dog Wolfi and I set out for a well deserved walk – we decided to go to the beach this afternoon. We took the car to save some time (4 km). It gets dark quickly here, about 4pm compared to 5pm in Seattle. Off we went, drove far too fast on a tiny little farm road when we came around the bend and saw about 20 young cows heading straight into our car. The cows were herded by two young people, a girl riding a pony without a saddle and a farmer at the local Bio-dynamic Farm Klostersee – Hof.
This young boy (an apprentice from Argentina) with an urgent voice demanded of me not to shut off my car and park but to please back up… Right into a ditch! Yupp we were stranded! No way out of this ditch I thought while the young herd passed by us. All of a sudden a knock at the window: Farmer Knut called in: “We will be back in 15 minutes to help you out of the ditch.”
Farmer Knut and girl Marritt who was riding the pony arrived back on a tractor and had me out of there in no time, saved and free. Knut explained that this was a very special day: the young cows had spent all summer & fall in the meadows behind the beach (we saw them often enough there – the dog & I) and were being herded back to the farm for the winter. So yes, they were wild and had no idea what a car would mean.
Anyway, Knut insisted that I would go the Farm’s store (mind you – this is the closest supermarket to our house – right across a huge field from us. Everything is grown organically there!) to pick up a freshly made loaf of bread as a small token of the adventure I did not ask for.
All right, enough adventure for the day and only a 15 minute walk for Wolfi, we headed back to the farm’s store which I love anyway! I told my story to Gerlinde, one person of two families (Knut’s family being the other) who runs the farm. She insisted strongly that Bob and I’d come the following day for breakfast.
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