Will Al-Can railroad help Calico Cow?
DELTA JUNCTION, ALASKA... Recently an article in the Anchorage Daily News stated Alaska had 72 dairies in 1958. Alaskan dairies may number only 5 in the near future.
Of course cows are a big part of dairies Delta Junction, Alaska has 3 dairies and there are a total of about 800 milking cows in the state. But more importantly, to this blog, is one Delta cow The Calico Cow.
The Calico Cow was born after I left Delta back in '01. So it's not unusual that I don't know much about this cow. Is it a Holstein? A red Santa Gertrudis? Or a Milking Shorthorn?
Maybe, given the type of livestock in Delta's ag projects Could it be a yak cow? Or a buffalo cow? Or one of those elk cows? Or is one of the wild cows? Moose? Caribou? Musk ox?
Calico Cow is actually a quilt shop. (This blog is, after all, Alaskan Quilt in Oregon!)
Calico Cow is one of the two fabric and sewing shops in the small town at "The End of the Alaska Highway" on "The Friendly frontier". The other shop is "Lovin' Stitches."
So, since it is not a milking cow, how might the railroad help these shops? Also, what railroad?
Many towns have major connections with rail lines. As I was sitting out back this afternoon, enjoying the late afternoon sun, the Albany & Eastern engine pulled a long string of lumber flat-cars down the tracks beside 3rd Street.
Our B&B, Peggy's Alaskan Cabbage Patch B&B, sits on 2nd Street here in Lebanon, Oregon. So almost twice daily the A&E runs slowly through town behind our house. It goes to mills here in Lebanon and on up to near Foster Lake in Sweet Home. Railroads used to be a big part of Oregon's forestry and lumber industry.
So I was thinking about railroads. But last week, I was reading Buffalo Gal's blog, about the Calico Cow, Forget-Me-Knot Guild quilters, and the Alaska Railroad possibly coming to Fort Greely and Delta.
Thus it popped in my loopy brain If the railroad comes to Delta (and maybe on to Canada and the lower "48"), more tourists might ride the rails and so Calico Cow and Lovin' Stitches should stock up on Alaskan quilt patterns to sell (at exorbitant prices) to those crazy female tourists who are quilters.
Whatcha think? Should Calico and Lovin' rewrite their business plans? And start planning long trips to Hawaii?
Will the railroad really change Delta Junction?
Of course cows are a big part of dairies Delta Junction, Alaska has 3 dairies and there are a total of about 800 milking cows in the state. But more importantly, to this blog, is one Delta cow The Calico Cow.
The Calico Cow was born after I left Delta back in '01. So it's not unusual that I don't know much about this cow. Is it a Holstein? A red Santa Gertrudis? Or a Milking Shorthorn?
Maybe, given the type of livestock in Delta's ag projects Could it be a yak cow? Or a buffalo cow? Or one of those elk cows? Or is one of the wild cows? Moose? Caribou? Musk ox?
Calico Cow is actually a quilt shop. (This blog is, after all, Alaskan Quilt in Oregon!)
Calico Cow is one of the two fabric and sewing shops in the small town at "The End of the Alaska Highway" on "The Friendly frontier". The other shop is "Lovin' Stitches."
So, since it is not a milking cow, how might the railroad help these shops? Also, what railroad?
Many towns have major connections with rail lines. As I was sitting out back this afternoon, enjoying the late afternoon sun, the Albany & Eastern engine pulled a long string of lumber flat-cars down the tracks beside 3rd Street.
Our B&B, Peggy's Alaskan Cabbage Patch B&B, sits on 2nd Street here in Lebanon, Oregon. So almost twice daily the A&E runs slowly through town behind our house. It goes to mills here in Lebanon and on up to near Foster Lake in Sweet Home. Railroads used to be a big part of Oregon's forestry and lumber industry.
So I was thinking about railroads. But last week, I was reading Buffalo Gal's blog, about the Calico Cow, Forget-Me-Knot Guild quilters, and the Alaska Railroad possibly coming to Fort Greely and Delta.
Thus it popped in my loopy brain If the railroad comes to Delta (and maybe on to Canada and the lower "48"), more tourists might ride the rails and so Calico Cow and Lovin' Stitches should stock up on Alaskan quilt patterns to sell (at exorbitant prices) to those crazy female tourists who are quilters.
Whatcha think? Should Calico and Lovin' rewrite their business plans? And start planning long trips to Hawaii?
Will the railroad really change Delta Junction?
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