Thursday

Well, yesterday did not go a bit like I had planned. I received a call at 3:00 pm at work and was told that all of our cows were out on the road. I blazed out of work to put the cows up before the school bus ran it's route. I hurried home and when I got there, no cows were out just Jacob's practice steer, Heartbreak Kid. I ran and got a bucket of feed and led the steer back through the gate into the pasture. I started to walk the fence to see where he had gotten out when my neighbor showed up. Dana said that there had been a cow and several calves out on the road and Jacob's steer. I asked if the cow was a black and white paint horned cow. He said "Yes, how did you know?". Well that is Tiny I and that is what she does. We sold her mom for the same thing, she would not stay in the pasture no matter what fence (electric, barb wire, wood). She was a hazard on the road so we had to sell her. Tiny I isn't usually bad, but this is the 2nd time in two days and this time she brought all the calves with her. As usual though, she puts herself back up and then you have to hunt to find out where she jumped, crawled or broke the fence. This time the hoof prints reveled her spot. She had broken the fence behind a thicket and crawled through the torns. That repaired, I set off to make sure all of the calves had made it safely back to the pasture. To my dismay, all but one was accounted for, Jelly's heifer (her picture is posted). I searched the pasture and the road for the missing heifer. Soon I heard her bawl and located her. She is in the BULL PASTURE! How??? Why??? Who knows! The bulls will take care of her and protect her until, we can either cajole her into the lot or she finds her way back to mom. UGH!! By the time all of the fence is fixed and all of the cattle located, my husband arrives with a load of feed. We unload the feed into the bin and now it is time to take Jacob to football practice and Rendi and I have a 4H meeting where we finalize plans for the upcoming county fair horse show and petting zoo. Back home at 10:00 to whip something up for dinner, eat, and then collapse into bed. The dishes can wait until morning!