Rough Start...

Today was pretty much cold and rainy...except the rain never really amounted to anything! grrr...but it looks like rain later this week, although I'm not going to hold my breath.

We started off the morning a littel rough today...we were saddled up and ready to haul the chute, horses, and four wheelers over to the site where we were going to work the rest of the steers today when Merle realized we were short on pour on. He knew we had some left yesterday and couldn't find it. So, a couple of us are looking all over the milkhouse while Merle goes out and finds it, as well as a tagger that only had a bad spring in the trash! Yeah- I didn't put it there, that's all I'll say on that one! He was not happy. But, shortly after that I found out that I did mess up! Last night after I fed the first round of bucket calves I locked them in a small pen until the next round was done like we always do- except this time I forgot to let them out! The worst part was I went out later after dark to check on everything and since the barn was quiet I didn't walk all the way in. So, those four little calves weren't feeling too good this morning :( I felt terrible, but I'm sure they'll be fine.

So we got over and rounded up steers with no a whole lot of trouble. Today we ran 70 through- yesterday I said we ran about 80 (or so I thought)- just kiddding it was actually 200! All together we did 270. I fly tagged today, oh what fun. The whole time we were running them through it was spitting wet stuff from the sky, making it a little uncomfortable and wet and a bit hard to pour! But, we got it done and moved them out (I rode Tanner today:). By the time we loaded everything back up it was time to head home for dinner. O, and we saw the buffalo (well half of them) on our way out running around outside of their pasture again. I don't think they will ever respect a fence, dumb things.

So I got dinner warm again while they unloaded. This works out pretty good so that by the time we all get in it's ready to eat and we can head out when we're done. Well, we ate, and it was still nasty out so Merle pretty much gave us all the afternoon off. I helped him move the calves around but a had a few hours to myself which was nice for getting ahold of people and getting some odds and ends done around the house. I took a short nap before chores and then started in again. By the time I had everything cleaned out from this morning and we got evening chores done it was about six. I came it and talked on the phone for a while and then headed up the Merle's house for some leftovers (he offered and I was getting sick of looking at these walls). So we ate and played a few games of concentration. We tried best of three but we tied on the third so we played again and he beat me! Dang...lol it was fun to just sit around and talk since it's always quiet around here after work at night. But, I suppose I should probably head in, sounds like tomorrow all depends upon the weather!