DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - With a 5-pound glob of butter in one hand and the thumb of Jesus in the other, Norma Lyon laments over how the main figure in her Last Supper keeps getting in the way.
"I've knocked three fingers off of him today," Lyon said, her graying head swaying from side to side as she reattached the thumb. "Maybe we should have saved him for last, but we thought he was too important."
Norma Lyon, 70, is called "Duffy" by her friends but is known to most Iowans as "the butter lady."
She has been sculpting a life-sized, 600-pound, butter cow at the Iowa State Fair each year since 1959