... Behind

Ugh...I'm always so far behind. There have been lots of goings on over the past week. Once again I find that it's almost midnight and I'm tired. But, I figured that I ought to write someting in here before it appears that I've fallen off of the face of the earth.

I had a bit of a couple frustrating evening a few nights back. When doing chores- it always seems that something has to go wrong, and this night all I wanted to do was go home and sleep...but no. First I got started really late becuse there were so many calves to tag after work at the lab. Now, the night before I realized that I needed fuel on the tractor and parked it while another tractor was being fueled. When I went to restart it...it wouldn't. I had to dink around and wasted like 45 minutes getting it going again. So...I figured the next night would be easy...what more could go wrong with chores- o theres's more.

So, as I said I got started late, then about halfway through my second ration mix, I realized I had started mixing a 3500 lb calf mix and then added the ingredients for a 4300 lb cow mix. Wow...talk about sleep deprivation. Usually, when I mix up a ration I can fix it...not this time. I knew it could be fed to the cows the next day if I measured it out right, but that meant dumping out all my hard work. So, it's already late, and now i have to dump out everhting and start over. So, I dumped the ration into an empty bin and started over. I finally got the right ration mixed and got to the bunk and realized that I sheard a pin. I have not idea how but I did. So....I had to drive all the way back to teh shop and switch the pin, This was quite the task because it was dark and I couldn't see to get the pto lined back up. But, I finally got it and sheared the pin before I even moved again. I started teh process again, adn finally got things fixed and moving. After I finished chores at 11:30pm I went into the barn and started working with the most frustrating calf in the world who wouldn't suck....and ended up tubing him anyway.

Obviously that was a frustrating evening, but things got better the next day as I just worked in the morning, did chores early and then went to see my boyfriend Mark at his farm! I stayed from Friday until Monday and had a great time. His whole family was home and I had a good time talking with his mom and sister and helping Mark and his dad and brother with farm projects. We took in a Memorial Day service and met with some relatives a couple times. It was really nice to get away from Brookings and work and see Mark.

But now...I'm back here and we moved cows today. I think we ended up working and moving about 60 pairs which wasn't too bad for the small time we had. We didn't have any big disasters but did take in one more bottle calf. It was a long day and I managed to lose a pin out of the grapple fork when I was doing chores as well.

So, I'm headed to bed. I'm going to try to keep this thing more updated if possible.