Last Day & MORE Cow Fun & Games

This is my last day working at the Town.

It's been fun.

And fills that little void

that misses vacuuming.

You know.

You go into a room with carpet

and leave with nice little

vacuum marks showing 

you were there!

It was a mess.

And now it's all neat and tidy

and orderly.

And the Town Clerk

is SO much happier.

So much so that today I went back

into the fire safe and redid all the

books back there as well.

LOL

Meanwhile,

we had some little visitors to our

farm yesterday.

I ran over to the local feed store

in the morning before work so I 

could get some feed for the horses.

Since we can't feed the fermented stuff

to them. (The cows can eat anything...)

When I got back to the house,

there was an entire family of

Sand Hill Cranes in my driveway.

I'm pretty sure that's Dad

with the kiddos.

Mom was on the other side

out of the picture.

I opened the gate and drove through

and when I got out to go close

the gate, they followed me on in!

They wandered around for a bit,

and then when Kyle opened the gate

again, they walked back out.

Silly birds!

And then...

Last night Rod didn't have to work,

the 3 of us were out back,

having just fed our animals,

I went into the house to check

on the Country Style Pork Ribs

I had in the pressure cooker,

and the guys walked to the back

to check on the new grass.

(Kyle spread 100# of seed on Thursday

and its rained every day since.

It's coming up nicely!)

Glanced over next door and noticed

the cows were out.

And while they watched,

they all lazily hopped over the

"new" fence Brock put in yesterday.

Into the neighbor's back yard.

So they wandered over to see if

they could round them up and put

them back into their pasture.

Naturally, it turned into a "thing".

The cows ran up his fence line and

into his front yard.

The neighbor came out VERY angry

and had words with Kyle.

While I grabbed a bucket of feed

and went out the front to try

to get them to follow me back home.

They were doing so well!

And then another neighbor showed up

WITHOUT a bucket of feed

and freaked them out and off they

ran - back into the back of the property

again, where they split into smaller groups

and forced us to chase them back and forth

for... about an hour.

I was POOPED!

(And it was quite warm as well...)

By the time we got them close to

the hole in the fence so we could

run them back in, the hogs showed

up and decided they wanted to come

OUT the hole in the fence and have

some of my grain.

Rod really had his hands full keeping

the hogs from getting OUT

while trying to get the cows IN.

But we succeeded.

If only that were the end of the story.

We went through the hole only to find

all the cows were now happily in the

middle of the farm garden,

munching the tops off the vegetables.

Good grief.

(Meanwhile, when we called Brock,

he said he was just sitting down to his

birthday dinner...)

(Whatever.)

Kyle and I dashed back to our house

and he loaded up a giant round roll

of hay onto his tractor, hoping they

would follow the hay into the secure

front pasture.

Put the hay in the pasture, but the cows

decided the vegetables were better.

So Kyle got on our 4-wheeler and

herded them - yelling and zooming around

(*and tearing up the grass a bit... oops!)

and FINALLY got all of them in the pasture

(and Rod again did a masterful job of

keeping the goats and donkey from getting

OUT while the cows were getting IN.)

Meanwhile it was FULL DARK.

We still had to go back to our place

and get one of our extra corral panels

and wire it up to the fence in the front

of the property. There has been a large 

hole in that fence for... a year?

Meanwhile.

It was 9:30.

I went to Chick Fil-A and got

us all a chicken sandwich.

Put the ribs back in the fridge

(they are all cooked, but need

some BBQ sauce cooked onto

them in the air fryer, and some

vegetables, and some salad,

and I was DONE.)

Such is the life on a farm.

Never a dull moment!

It's fun.

And we love it.

Mostly.