Celebrating the Cow

It's always great to see a sale - of any amount - on my Squidoo dashboard.  Sometimes, though, I wish I could ask someone, "Why did you buy that?"

This morning, for instance, there's a sale for a cow mascot costume from my How to Make a Cow Costume lens.  I just have to wonder, here at the end of January, what's the occasion?  Those costumes aren't cheap, so there has to be a reason someone sought it and bought it. 

Chinese New Year, Groundhog Day, the Super Bowl, Valentine's Day, and President's Day are coming up.  None of those conjure up visions of people walking around dressed like cows.  Mardi Gras is just over a month away and things get pretty crazy down in New Orleans during that celebration.  But cows?  It's hard to know for sure.

I'm not complaining, mind you, just scratching my head and wondering. Perhaps I should add a question to my guestbook on that page, "Why are you planning to dress up as a cow?" Not that it's any of my business (helping people find or make cow costumes is my business), but sometimes I just have to wonder.

Why might you dress up like a cow? What are you celebrating?  I'd sure love to know!

Why I Appreciate Cows

It continues to amaze me how many people find my How to Make a Cow Costume page this time of year.  You see, this coming Friday is Cow Appreciation Day at Chick-Fil-A and people really want free food!  To get it, all they have to do is dress up like a cow.  To do that, they need instructions.

Not sure why I'm surprised about the traffic.  After all, the point of the page is to show people how to make or where to buy a cow costume.  And the spike in traffic every end of June/early July is certainly tied to Chick-Fil-A's annual event.  In other words, the lens is working as planned! 

Of course there's a spike in October, too, as people plan Halloween costumes.  But actually this is a fairly popular lens that gets traffic year-round.  I guess people have other, year-round reasons to dress up like a cow.  And I certainly appreciate that!

Do you have a lens that gets traffic spikes that surprise you?  Leave a link in your comment!