Steer Round Up

Another wet day.


I woke up to a muddy place. It rained eight tenths during the night, making, haying, mowing, stringing salt and mineral, and basically going anywhere off (or maybe on) a road difficult. But, it didn't stop us too much because the plans were to round up Merle's almost 300 head of steers that will be consigned later this week. We did chores and met up with Glen, Ross, and Delbert and headed out. We drove a little over halfway there and rode in the rest of the way, becuase the steers tend to get strung out and it was pretty muddy. Round up went pretty well considering there were only five of us to that many cattle. We only had a few give us the run around and managed to have pretty good luck. We got them all across the culvert Boeman's and ran them all the way home. When we were almost there, just moving them down Hisle road a few hundred feet a black car came up behind them and was honking and rodding the engine. First, Ross told them to knock it off and get to the side of the road, then Delbert had to go over there. Right about this time I realized that it was the same car that started the bale fire a few days back. Delbert went up to the car and told them to knock it off twice- the second time didn't sound quite like that...! The girl driving had a Budweiser can right between her legs and they knew it wouldn't have been hard to pull their keys and stall them out right there, so they quit and just waited until we had them through the gate. But, now they have a license plate and can at least check to see if it was who they expected. ...and that's the res for ya.

We got them moved in to the pasture at home and went in for dinner. Merle thought that he had put a roast in the crock pot- turns out it wasn't just a roast it was prime rib! lol, so that tasted good. After dinner they all headed back to get the pickups and trailers that we left out where we started and I cleaned things up from dinner. Delbert came back and we loaded up his horse and he and Ross and Glen went home their separate ways and Merle and I went up and loaded salt and mineral and headed out to Hisle Dam, Chief Bears, and then to the Timber Reserve. We got all the way through without getting stuck, which was pretty good considering the mud. But, we cut it pretty close. As we were just getting back on the road around six it started raining and a pretty nasty storm moved in. By the time we got home it was way too nasty to do chores so we waited it out. They said the storm could produce quarter sized hail and wind gusts up to 70mph. Well, thankfully we didn't get the hail but it was definitly windy. We waited it out over a game of kings corners that I totally domiated at- haha. But, by about 8ish we were able to get back out and do chores. That rain brought in another half inch and it looks like it might rain more this week yet. We'll just have to see.

But, I think I'm headed out- need to get ready for church.