Salt and Mudd!

Good news of the day...I managed to not make a complete idiot of myself of do anything really dumb.

Besides the point- Merle told me that the baby was crying all night long and he contimplated calling me (that's the joke around here...just send her to my house)! haha...I probably wouldn't even wake up to the phone ringing!! Anyway, their lack of sleep aside, I got up and did morning chores with Ross, then headed up to do some heavy duty salt and mineral duty today. We had originially planned to string salt and mineral just this morning so we really loaded the pickup up. I started while Ross and Merle put the fixed tire back on the disk (which somehow had a tool or dirt or something floating aroudn on the inside of it...figures). 20 bags of each and a few blocks and we were off. We went through a couple troughs on the Baldy pasture but spent most of our time with the steers in the timber reserve. There were still a lot of risky wet spots but we managed to get through. There were only a couple troughs that we just plain skipped because we knew we would probably get stuck if we tried to get there with the pickup. While on our adventure we did find a bottomless tank that needs tamped in because it's seeping pretty bad...o horray for another fun task. We got rid of all our bags and filled all the troughs that we could make it to by noon. On our way back home we ran into Dean who was poisoning prarie dogs and had gone all the way home to get more and was coming back. Hopefully we get all those killed down on the wheat field because they are really ruining the hay and everythign else!

When we came back Merle was testing out the windrower and cutting some grass down in the draws around home. He said to keep on stringing salt because not only is the grass still rather damp, but it's supposed to storm later tonight so that kinda defeats the purpose of cutting hay. So, we loaded back up, this time with 25 bags of each intended for the steer on Duck Creek and the black cows on the Big Unit. We ran into my house for lunch- I enjoyed some left over pizza from the fireman's meeting last night..haha! Then, headed out for a salty afternoon. One of the first things we noticed was a steer in the cow pasture...and as we kept on creeping through that pasture we saw more and more. Then, as we were headed out for the day, we saw 7 steers in Scott's empty pasture next door. Super- I have a feeling I know what tomorrow morning will bring. So, after stringing all but two bags we headed home to do chores around five. We did the standard procedure and unloaded and put everything away. Then, went and did chores and talked about tomrrow. Meanwhile, Dean we cutting apart some trees that had fallen in the lane, hopefully that will make it easier to get through there and cut more grass down.

After chores we all talked a while and I headed home. It wasn't long before the phone rang and Adrienne needed some things out the kitchen that had accidentally been left here. I found them and offered to bring them down. They had company all day- her mother an sister, and when I got there her mom was cooking for more guests that were coming for supper and to see Rylee. She sure is cute! And was sleeping almost the whole time I was there. They invited me to stay but I was smelly adn tired and I think she has had enough company for a few days! So, I came home and met her company in my driveway and pointed them in the right direction. Tonight I decided to shower and watch a movie because being responsible and getting thigns done didn't sound like any fun.

I think I'm definitly ready for bed!

"I have vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals." -Butch Cassidy