Cows. Another Ending.

Happy 2019!

I'm going to try to get back to blogging every day.

We'll see how that goes.

My life isn't ALWAYS that exciting!

Hahahaha.

But I DID blog yesterday.

So this makes day 2.

Anyhow.

June of 2017 we bought these two little girls.

  

At the time, there weren't any little boys available.

We would have preferred to have boys.

But you take what you can get.

(Actually, we were going to pick up two boys and the

lady sold them out from under us... this is what she had

and after driving HOURS to get there, we just took them.)

They provided us with plenty of entertainment.

They were good cows.

We didn't name them, they just went by the collective

"Cows".

Or if being specific, Brown Cow and Black Cow.

But mostly... Cows. (Or girls...)

They helped keep the pastures clean.

Trimming palm trees they were always right there

hoping we would toss the fronds over the fence to them.

Yum! Especially if there were berries!

One of the MANY projects Kyle and Rod tackled this year

was building a new "cattle working area".

Hahahaha.

Yes, that's the technical name.

A cowboy and his dog.

Do NOT take my picture!

Is this tall enough, do you think?

Ok, FINE.

It has been useful for lots of things.

Like pouring fly repellent on the cows last summer.

Then last Sunday we lined up the horse trailer with

the end of the chute, walked the cows down the chute

and straight into the trailer.

SOOOO easy!

Rod bought a "hot shot" cattle prod and we didn't

even get to use it!

Which is good.

But kind of a bummer. Kyle is the only one, so far,

who has ever had a hot shot used on him.

And he did it to himself.

At the store.

When he was... 12? 8? I don't remember.

But HE does... lol.

Anyhow.

Loaded those girls right on up.

And headed on up the road to our new butcher.

SUPER nice facility.

There was an older gentleman already there,

unloading his young bull.

Rod (as always) helped him unload and chatted

with him for a bit. He said the family that runs

it is SUPER friendly, easy and pleasant to work with,

and he has been very happy with their work.

Our last butcher did an "ok" job.

So we were looking for someone better...

This family owned place has been in business since 1968

and had FANTASTIC reviews from everyone we checked with.

The facility was Super Clean and looked like it is

efficiently run. They have all the right licenses, insurance, etc.

So we were comfortable bringing the girls here.

Goodbye ladies!

We thank you for being good cows.