Yesterday Alan got to go to a big tractor pull....way out near Buffalo, the Dansville ESP Tractor Pull. The rest of us stayed home.
Which was fine.
Until evening milking time.
First the boss went out to bale up a load of hay and unload a couple of loads into the mow....
Which was fine
Until every single bale began to hang up in the chain on the hay elevator. When the girls and I went over to milk he was on his sixth trip up the ladder into the mow and about as happy as a hornet on a hot plate. (Not quite so fine.)
Eventually he got things working and got the hay put away while the girls and I got the cows grained (Liz), the milker set up, and the herd brought down from pasture and put in the barn.
Which was fine.
Until we discovered that Encore was missing. She is a little summer yearling of mine (sister to Etrain) Liz kept up to show. When she decided to take a small string this year we turned her out. It was after seven before they found her hiding in some brush as far back in the pasture as you can get. Then we couldn't catch her, because for some reason a couple of full sisters, Beech and Butternut, decided that they really needed to beat her up. Every time we got close to her one of them would come and throw her with their head and she would run away again. Eventually Liz got her hands on her and wrestled a halter onto her head. What with driving all the other cows out of the yard, closing the gates, getting her into a stall, which had to be set up as all were full, it was nearly ten PM before we got done with chores. Two hours late is plumb painful, especially on Sunday, which in theory, should be and easier day.
The kid got home from the tractor pull about ten minutes after we came in from the barn, just in time to miss all the fun.
Which was fine.
***The top photo is of the Supernatural, which belongs to a friend of ours.
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Sorry to hear about everything that happened. I hope he enjoyed himself. I know I had a great time. The pictures came out great!!! I'm looking forward to the next pull. We had issues of our own as well although ours didn't involve work.
Nyv, he had a wonderful time and thanks you very much for taking him...glad you guys got home all right and everything. He got some good video too btw.
Just another day on the farm, right?
Bless you.
Thanks FC, all's well that ends well. The guys got home safe and we found my baby heifer okay. I was really afraid she had fallen into a ravine or something.
It has been a while since we did a tractor pull. Armywife did enjoy the last one we went to. A little more mellow than top fuel and nitro funny cars running about 300 mph. Guess Alan will have to make up having fun while the rest of you had to deal with stuff.
I'll tell you what. You and your family are what I love about this country - about people in general - about life.
Hard work, tenacity, teeth-gritting frustration, rambunctious youth and the determination and steel to do it all again tomorrow. All with a sense of humor.
God bless you and God bless America.
Regular Guy, thanks for visiting!
I don't go much myself, just too noisy for me, but the guys and Liz like them. We will be making hay this week if the weather cooperates, so he will more than earn his time off. He took some good videos, but I hate to put them up on here, because I have dial up and can't see them myself.
Cathy, thank you so much for you kind words! God bless you and yours as well.
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