Snoopy and Baseball

Today...the sun was out when I woke up! Exciting- well sorta anyway. I did morning chores before everyone got down this direction this morning. Delbert's dog (Snoopy) - I don't think he's a beagle though, he's really big, almost as big as their St. Bernard! Anyway, Snoopy followed them down here yesterday on a cattle drive and they couldn't catch him to get him back. I guess this has happened before, so this morning we had to get a rope around him and loaded him up into the stock trailer. I got to drive him the 30 miles or so home! Haha, poor guy, I bet he wasn't too happy with me- but I got him over to Delbert's and then picked up Merle's lawn mower and brought it home in exchange.

Tina and Jeff were down at Dicks working on some old feed bunk mess I think...and stringing some more salt and mineral. Merle's grandson was playing baseball at a tournament in Martin so he went in for 7-9 yr old baseball! -haha- and I brought the dog home and then dumped some trash from yesterday into the hole in the pasture with Merle's loader tractor. ...I about had a coronary because when I parked the tractor back in the shed I noticed the grapple fork brace was crooked and kinda bent- I was almost positive I had done it and freaked out about it for like the entire morning. - well at least until I found out that it's been like that for a long time. Yep, leave it to me to freak out about something that I didn't even do!

So after that whole deal I brought some salt and mineral up to the dry cows on a four wheeler and checked the cows and that well. Then, I headed back to the prairie dog holes we poisoned the other day. It was a little dissapointing cuz most of them had dug back out- but on the bright side I did spot one laying out dead! So, if nothing else we killed one! lol We will have to hit em hard sometime soon. Then, I came in for dinner and Jeff and Tina must have left for the day about the same time. I decided I needed groceries while the store was open so I headed into town and stopped at the baseball game on my way in. It's been a while since I was at a little kids game- or a game at all :( So, it was fun to see, maybe a little hard to watch, but very cute! It was also nice to meet Merle's daughters and Brandi's family as well. So, when the game was over I got my stuff in town and headed back home. Since I couldn't think of most things to do on my own at the moment I decided to put my garden in. I planted watermelon, canteloupe, carrots, tomatoes, and sweet corn. I doubt much of it will even come up but we'll see, and I will have you know that I marked each row with a colored straw written on with sharpie markers! ...only me.

That pretty much took most of the afternoon. I drove up on the hill and got my cell phone to work for just a bit and then headed down to help Merle unload a pallot of salt and some blocks before they got completely soaked! Then chores, and some more rain. Sounds like we might have some severe thunderstorms tonight and Merle said he would call me if the fire dept. has to go out and watch- sweet! ...we all know I'm easily amused (and was deathly afraid of storms as a child) - guess I got over that one. I also had a chance to try on some fire gear today so that if we did have a fire I had some gear that fit- I think that'll be pretty cool. I'm going to take some classes starting tomorrow night for a week to get some basic fire training, I think it'll be really good for me to know a few things and fairly interesting.

Other than that, there isn't a whole lot else to report on- can I just say I'm really sad about the SF stockyards deal...it sucks, but life goes on. Anyway, that's all I got, gunna go find supper.