More Rain : )

This morning Bruce's 4 wheeler wouldn't start.  He had discovered last week that the battery is already 6 years old so we got a new battery for it but hadn't gotten it put in yet.  Of course the cows are in the farthest paddock so Bruce walked all the way out, reset the fence and walked back in the rain.  Thank heavens for nice rain suits!  We got another inch of rain before milking was done! Bruce doesn't tend to worry since worry doesn't fix anything but this morning, after the rain he commented that the game had changed.  He then talked about the pasture will finally grow.  Perhaps the hay will grow a bit and it is early enough to harvest a 4th crop.  The bag for the cow feed is nearly gone so we will need to open the silo much earlier than normal.  Had it continued to be dry we would have had some serious feed inventory issues.  Hopefully with this rain it will all work out fine.  The pasture has had some leaf disease going on.  Bruce thinks its from all the humidity and dampness when it was so hot.  In any case the cows won't eat it.  We are hoping the steers are more interested

We got the check for the stag steer and cows.  We are paid by the pound of hanging weight which is approximately 60% of the total weight.  The steer dressed out at only 576#.  He is much smaller than we would normally sell them and we were paid $1.43 per pound.  The cows, averaged a hanging weight of 607# and averaged $1.35 per pound.  There was no problem stuffing all of them into the checkbook!

Todays view that made me smile