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Monday night. It was a WARM 90 today... sunny and nice though. Had .7 inch from that rain last evening and night. Really good rain. But , now it is blowing and we might get a bit of the "pop up" storms that are coming through north of here. I just went out and closed all the windows on the car and truck and recovered the 2 cabinets on the deck.... From the looks of the radar we are on the southern edge of it for the next couple of hours...
Couldn't find the one new little calf at the pasture today after looking for nearly 2 1/2 hours. Grass is high and I wound up walking alot of it because I was scared to death to maybe run over it. DAM DS for taking them up there with the babies barely 2-3 days old.... with "too young" new momma's..... his GF took the 4 wheeler up this evening and finally found the one.... and got the momma to go up near it so it could get up and go nurse.... but I am going to have to go up there tomorrow and probably get them into the catch pen and move her, or both, BACK down to the barn and put her in the little field where the nurse cow is.... so that the calf and new momma can be monitored.... sometimes I don't think he has an ounce of common sense in his head. He's kept the EXPERIENCED nurse cow there for what.... 2 months.... yet he turns out a brand new, way too young - immature - heifer into a 15 acre field with 20 other cows and grass tall enough that you can't barely see the calves standing up?????? GRRRRRR
Testing went okay except I was hurting by the time we got done because I had done so much walking and all to try to find the calf earlier....
It is thundering out there... and very breezy..... we will probably get some rain out of it... actually it is starting to rain now, I hear it on the roof.... OOPS, it is really raining... hope it is a short and fast shower going through....
DS cut hay today... at least 15 acres....there was only a 15-20% chance of this coming through....but it is coming down now....
Didn't get down the hill at all today due to looking for the calf and having to go to work....
Will be talking to lady for cleaning tomorrow, we texted today....will have to see what the landlord says tomorrow...not going to get the fish tanks done by tomorrow..... Will be glad to be done with this....
Oh well.... it is what it is.... hay was going to be tedded anyway... but hate that it is getting wet in the just mowed rows...
Going to go to bed... I hurt and ankle is swollen too....
Couldn't find the one new little calf at the pasture today after looking for nearly 2 1/2 hours. Grass is high and I wound up walking alot of it because I was scared to death to maybe run over it. DAM DS for taking them up there with the babies barely 2-3 days old.... with "too young" new momma's..... his GF took the 4 wheeler up this evening and finally found the one.... and got the momma to go up near it so it could get up and go nurse.... but I am going to have to go up there tomorrow and probably get them into the catch pen and move her, or both, BACK down to the barn and put her in the little field where the nurse cow is.... so that the calf and new momma can be monitored.... sometimes I don't think he has an ounce of common sense in his head. He's kept the EXPERIENCED nurse cow there for what.... 2 months.... yet he turns out a brand new, way too young - immature - heifer into a 15 acre field with 20 other cows and grass tall enough that you can't barely see the calves standing up?????? GRRRRRR
Testing went okay except I was hurting by the time we got done because I had done so much walking and all to try to find the calf earlier....
It is thundering out there... and very breezy..... we will probably get some rain out of it... actually it is starting to rain now, I hear it on the roof.... OOPS, it is really raining... hope it is a short and fast shower going through....
DS cut hay today... at least 15 acres....there was only a 15-20% chance of this coming through....but it is coming down now....
Didn't get down the hill at all today due to looking for the calf and having to go to work....
Will be talking to lady for cleaning tomorrow, we texted today....will have to see what the landlord says tomorrow...not going to get the fish tanks done by tomorrow..... Will be glad to be done with this....
Oh well.... it is what it is.... hay was going to be tedded anyway... but hate that it is getting wet in the just mowed rows...
Going to go to bed... I hurt and ankle is swollen too....