A little of this, A little of that.

And finally caught up to today.

I reluctantly got out of my warm bed this morning to a cold, wet outside. After chores, Dean, Ross, and I loaded up our four wheelers and I took us down to Dicks to do a little heifter musical pastures. We took the red heifers and moved them just across the fence to Craigs. They rounded up ok, but we ended up short a bull that we couldn't find. After counning them a gajillion times and getting a gajillion numbers we decided there were 71 heifers and 3 bulls. As it turns out, thats 8 heifers and 1 bull short. I think I know what we'll be doing in the morning.

After moving the reds we went up to the small pasture and moved the black heifers over to where the reds were at. This took some time, because they are pretty dumb at this stage of the game, but we got them there none the less. I ran one direction to turn on the electric well adn Dean went another. Ross just disappeared for a while...After I turned on the electric well I realized what had happened to Ross. He stopped in at Merle's cousin Craig's house (which is in the middle of the pasture) and was having coffee. I thought it would be awful rude to jsut ride by so I stopped too! haha!! It was fun to see him and warm up for a minute but we did take off again within 10 minutes of so. Dean never asked and we never told... But overall on the black heifers we counted 58 of them including 3 bulls and that turned out to be right. Since we still didn't see our red bull (or our unknown missing heifers) we loaded up and headed home.

After unloading and stopping at home for some excellent egg, cheese, adn steak in a bag, I went down to find out what the afternoon would bring. Ross and I spent some time greasing up the disk and farming tractor and then he took off for the field. To give him a head start, Merle and I put his baler monitor in his tractor and got it all fed through and ready to go and then took off with a couple pickups. We all made it down there ok and got him set and ready to go. Merle and I headed back home for the next project of the day. We spent the rest of the afternoon with the 5240 tractor that will pull the hydroswing this haying season. We got all the filters cleaned or changed and blew out the radiator, oiled the front tires and changed the tractors oil, etc. Then, we had some time left to get it all hooked up to the hydroswing and I pulled it down to the shed for further work tomorrow.

We hurried up and did chores before we got totally dumped on by the rain and then I headed home. It was a good day. Although i did somehow manage to loose a grease cap off of one of the trailer tires...probably at the really tight auto gate on the way to Dicks. We'll have to look for that tommorrow. Otherwise, it wasn't a bad day at all- just left us with more work for tomorrow.

It sounds like Delbert might brand a few late calves in the morning, but if it rains too much I bet we'll head down to look for heifers and a bull. Guess we'll see! I'm off to work on some books and maybe watch some tv on my computer.