Well Friday morning was quite an exciting and chaotic morning. It all started at 1 am when I woke up to go to the bathroom. We had the windows open because it was cool out and we were letting some fresh air in. I woke up to use the bathroom and as I was walking to the bathroom I hear MOOO (REALLY LOUD)! It scared the crap out of me, but I did my business and went back to bed. I heard Logan rolling around so I said Hey- I think you have a calf out. He says, yea I heard it too. Ok, so we went back to sleep. About 6:30 that morning I start to hear this knock. I'm not sure if I'm dreaming or if it is real. I sort of wake up and ask Logan if someone is knocking. I don't know he says, so he goes out to check. Sure enough there is a man standing at the door and he asks Logan if he has cattle. Logan says yeah, why? The man says, they are all out and all over the place. They are heading towards the highway. CRAP!!! So he says thanks and runs to get his work clothes on. I jump out of bed and get my work clothes on and out the door we go.
We go outside and everywhere you look there are calves. 1/4 a mile down the road, out in the bean field, in the backyard, in the front yard, and eating out of the bunks on the wrong side of the fence with the other calves. 100 calves out of their pen and dispersed throughout the country is not really what I wanted to deal with this morning!!
Logan hops on a 4-wheeler and starts to bring the ones by the highway back home. Me, not knowing there is another 4-wheeler here, am running around trying to bring some of them back home. I had called backup while Logan is rounding these stinkers up, and they were on their way. Logan had brought the majority of the ones around the farm back and we put them back in the lots. Remind you that I have to be to school by 9:00 and it is now 7:20. I tell Logan, do you care if I go get ready? Will you be ok here by yourself? Yes, ok, so right as I go to head in I notice that Michelle, Logan's mom was in the yard. She was getting concerned because Roger, Logan's dad, was not here yet. She quick radio's him to see where he is at. He replies back and says that he is 3 miles away pushing another 30 calves back home. OMG!!! So I quick run over to Logan and tell him where his dad is at and what is going on. He says to me, you are going to have to skip school, I NEED your help!
Logan hops on a 4-wheeler and starts to bring the ones by the highway back home. Me, not knowing there is another 4-wheeler here, am running around trying to bring some of them back home. I had called backup while Logan is rounding these stinkers up, and they were on their way. Logan had brought the majority of the ones around the farm back and we put them back in the lots. Remind you that I have to be to school by 9:00 and it is now 7:20. I tell Logan, do you care if I go get ready? Will you be ok here by yourself? Yes, ok, so right as I go to head in I notice that Michelle, Logan's mom was in the yard. She was getting concerned because Roger, Logan's dad, was not here yet. She quick radio's him to see where he is at. He replies back and says that he is 3 miles away pushing another 30 calves back home. OMG!!! So I quick run over to Logan and tell him where his dad is at and what is going on. He says to me, you are going to have to skip school, I NEED your help!
So Logan quick counts the calves that are in the lot. He jumps on a 4-wheeler and I jump on a 4-wheeler and we head out to help Roger bring these calves back home. Michelle sits at the corner in a pickup to block so the calves don't go where we don't want them to. Logan and I meet up with Roger about a mile and a half away from home and push them the rest of the way. Logan says-once we hit the bean field up here I will have to make sure they don't go in the field. Well there was no stopping them because they went right into the bean field and they were not coming out. Logan said that we will just have to let them go and they will hear the other ones so they will go home.
Ok, so I said well do you still need my help or can I go home and quick get ready to make it to school on time? Remind you it is now 7:50. Yes, I can go. So I ride the 4-wheeler home, go inside, find something nice to wear, throw my hair in a pony tail, make my breakfast, throw stuff in my bookbag and out the door I go. (It's a good thing I can get ready in 10 min!!) And that was my morning! HOW EXHAUSTING and it was only 8:00!!!
P.S. My teacher would have been real pleased with me if I would have called him and said I can't make it to tutoring because I am putting calves back in! HAHA!
Here is the one and only picture I got of the action. I was too into the heat of the moment or there would have been more pictures! This was when we were trying to get them back in-some did not want to go back in!!
Farm Girl Tip #42: If you ever hear a knock at your door at 6:30 in the morning, either A, the cops are at your door, or B, your calves are out. Option B is most likely the answer!
Farm Girl Tip #43: If you ever want to let all of your anger out, just let your calves out so you can put them back in. TRUST ME, your anger will be ALL GONE by the time they are all back in!
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