Yesterday was one of those days that seemed like it would never end. No complaints as I enjoyed every minute of it, but I was one exhausted cowgirl by the time I crawled into my bed.
7:30 - 11am
Feed large square bale of alfalfa to both big herds of cattle - mind you that means I'm on the back of a trailer pulling off the flakes one at a time, splitting them in half & kicking them to either side of the trailer
Climb in tractor & move one of the calf creep feeders & store an unused hay ring.
Cows are occupied with hay so back to the house & get the truck & dump 450 lbs of creep feed in the 2 creep feeders for the calves
Unload rest of feed in feed room
Feed horses & let them out. All 11 of them are coming up for breakfast instead of just the usual 8
Feed heifers
Feed BB
Feed BB's boyfriend. We'll call him Junior
Let BB & Junior in the yard so they can munch on the green grass in there.
Mix & deliver mineral to the 3 herds.
Put repaired Kubota tire in the shop.
Fill 8 gallons of water for the house (you can drink it, but our well water doesn't taste very good)
11 - 11:30
Eat lunch & watched an interesting show called Oddities. Appropriately named show. Watched some guy find a skeleton for a stage show & a lady who is a former mortician & now clothing designer try on scoliosis braces from the 1900s. Told you appropriately named show!
11:30-1:30
Get my goods together & off to town to get:
Donuts for WB
Gas in truck
More mineral from vet clinic
New gloves at Tractor Supply
Qtips for WB to use at the caboose - something to do with reloading ammo, not sure & didn't ask
Hook up to trailer & pick up Kubota from service repair
1:30 - 6
Back home & unloaded truck of purchases.
Offload Kubota
Drop trailer in back pasture
Switch to other Kubota
Put out 5 bales of hay in the tractor to the 3 herds.
Check on washing machine repair man
Toss 7 bales of hay from hay barn, load in Kubota & then toss in horse hay manger. Wish there was a better way, but you gotta move the hay 3 times!
Back to house to change clothes so I can go water trough diving
Get in said water trough & find out that the chain has broken on the float which is why the trough is over flowing.
Get chain & wire to fix float down at work shop
Back in the trough & fix the problem.
Evening
Shower &, oh yes, I did have a shower beer because there wasn't time to enjoy them separately
Friends arrive from Houston
Start dinner
Eat dinner
Finally go to bed at 11:30
Here's what made the whole day worth it. The baby bull in the pictures is #159. He came over to me & inspected all my tools prior to trough repair & tasted my hand. The rascal goosed me while I was bent over reattaching the float & scared the dickens out of me! Then, he decided to check out what it was like to get in the trough too. 2nd picture is him jumping backwards out of the trough. After his little swim, he came back over to me & tasted my whole hand & checked out my toes. I can't wait to get these calves away from their mommies & in the pasture next to the house. I'm ready for the next generation of babies to love on. All my other babies are big girls now & will be ready for motherhood next spring.
Hope everyone has a fun & safe Labor Day weekend.
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