Cows (Not Ours)

 In the midst of all the house fixing,

and Christmas prepping,

and house buying...

there has been other stuff as well.

Last Wednesday Kyle and I took a

run up to Ocala with 3 of the

neighbor's cows to drop them

off at the butcher.

Brock bought himself a really nice

big stock trailer.

It's a gooseneck trailer.

And none of his trucks have a gooseneck hitch.

So every time he needs to move cows he has

to hire Kyle to do it for him.

Kyle was happy for the $,

but reminded him that he will need to

either install a hitch or buy a truck

or better yet, trade the trailer for a

bumper pull one.

This one is REALLY nice, but also

much bigger than he actually needs.

It's pretty rare he moves more than

3-5 cows at a time.

Although when he bought the trailer,

he also bought 20-ish calves and he

needed this one AND our bumper pull

stock trailer to get them all and move

them from where they were to a new

pasture he leases up there.

If that situation arises again he would

just have to make a couple of trips.

But the two places are within an hour of

each other so not a big deal.

Anyhow.

It was a fun day together.

And, as always, he masterfully backed

the trailer into a skinny little

loading chute.

One try.

Guess all that work with his trailer has 

paid off - although he was always good at it.

(He says it is because he used to pull a little

tiny trailer behind the 4-wheeler. The shorter

the trailer, the more squirrelly they are,

so it was good training for him.)

Today he is down at the potato farm.

They are trying to get the fields ready to plant

next week. But we got about 5" of rain

over the weekend down there, so it's 

pretty much under water.

The farmer is from Idaho and doesn't understand

Florida farming yet.

Kyle tries to help him understand, but then

he just shrugs and does whatever the guy

tells him to do.

So today he is making rows.

In standing water.

Ha.

Meanwhile Jim has a couple of pressure washing

jobs today and tomorrow so Kyle is on his own

down there.

Rod is painting.

He got the front foyer and all the trim around

the bedroom and bathroom doors and down

the hall done yesterday.

Today I think he is doing the inside of

Kyle's door trim, maybe Kyle's bathroom,

and maybe our bathroom?

That just leaves the kitchen.

We aren't painting our bedroom or the living room.

And Kyle already painted the zoom room

and his bedroom.

I'm shopping for homeowners insurance.

And braving Walmart here in a bit.

Wish me luck!