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Cutout Ranch Brings Back the Plywood Cow

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A revival of full-size plywood yard-art patterns for a Holstein cow, pink pig, and duck family, based on original 1988 designs.

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Cutout Ranch treats lawn decoration as a small piece of local history: the site says its original animals were covered by Southern California newspapers in 1989, when cows, pigs, ducks, giraffes, and zebras filled a yard and stopped passersby. The patterns are not available yet, but the project makes a charming case for bringing back a very specific kind of handmade roadside joy.

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