Sunday

We had a quiet day today.  It started with RAIN while Bruce was getting the cows home.  Bruce got wet, the cows were sloppy to be around and we were thrilled.  We ended up with only 2/10 inch but we could use some rain so it was better than nothing.  Our yard is getting pretty brown.  We aren't ones to worry about what the yard looks like but it is a constant reminder of how dry the crops are also.  The seeding and alfalfa are short with the lack of moisture so our 3rd crop will not be what we had hoped.  We have chances of rain in the forecast a few times this week.  Hopefully we will get lucky a few more times.  The steer that caused yesterdays chaos has been behaving as before.  Bruce carries his stick with him whenever he in is the yard now just to be safe.  We will still put him on the truck tomorrow.  Those kinds of incidents don't promote second chances.  Bruce cleaned pens today to make loading cattle tomorrow more user friendly.  It was a warm day but the humidity dropped this afternoon to a more reasonable level and we finally had a nice breeze.  I was able to open up the house windows for the first time in a week.  As much as I like the benefits of air conditioning, I miss hearing the birds and the breeze and today the cattle complaining because Bruce chose to clean their pens before he fed them. : )     Since there is nothing more to note for today I will add a few random pictures from the routine.

It just happened that all the animals were in the ends of their pastures so Bruce had a full supply of reels.  These are our fences. Bruce can set up a fence in 5 min.

These are the pigtail posts we use.  They get pushed into the ground with your foot and the poly wire fence gets wrapped into the "pigtail" on top.

we are finding the fly tape much more impressive than the flies do