Cloudy Dreary Rainy Day

It's 67* with a high of about 73* today. Cloudy dreary light rainy weather.

It's. 9 am hubby is fed he has birds and cows taken care of and I decided to just come out and sit on the porch. 

     I told hubby I just needed a break from dark and dreary in the house. He said it's that way out here ! I told him nope! Not as bad as inside and I get fresh air .

      He and Heidi Ho sat out here with me a few minutes and decided to go in. 

      I like the rain. This kind of slow rain is so soothing. We needed it. The hay field is all cleaned off of hay bales and soaking it up. Nikki's place we recently brush hogged and it can green up and get pretty again. The Sire's place I worked on a few weeks ago and I have most of the south side looking good. It has the poorest soil from being farmed for probably a 100 yrs . It's slow growing on the grass but those darn weeds are just terrible! Hubby said it's a waist of time but I told him I for sure want to get the north side of the place looking better before he has to put hay spikes on the tractor . I don't want to have to look at all that nasty stuff all winter where we drive and feed ! He said it would fall down after frost and I told him it didn't last yr and we had to look at it all year ! I sometimes think I need goats. 

    I also brush hogged behind the house in our little nursury pasture where we put cows we need to keep a close eye on. 

     Things are going to look so good in a few days after this rain kicks in !!

     Well darn. I have called everyone available this time of morning, wrote this little day report now I guess I have to go in and deal with kitchen, desk and hubby's 2 teeth he had taken out on Monday . He is such a Sheldon sometimes, overthinking every little tiny thing like he has no clue  !!  Grrr but it is kinda funny I just try to laugh about it. I told him listen.... I had 5-6 taken out at a time several times with abscesses and broken down below the gums.... Really ! What your doing is amature hr here dear ! Lol

     Darn. I give up.  Dark dreary house , chores and insurance paperwork is calling.

Love

Ranchmama 

Bull Talk

    A few weeks ago it was time to move the bull from the house to a pasture about a mile away since he had done his job here at the house. 

     As usual I drove the truck to back up to the trailer while hubby opened gates and directed me to the right spot so he could drop the trailer onto the hitch. 

       I can't back up that trailer and make a turn aiming for the corral gate for nothing no matter how much I try so hubby gets to do that . 

       We get bully into the trailer without any problems as usual. Seems like they always know if they load up they are going to party. LOL

        I drive the truck and trailer while hubby unlocks and opens gates.

        We go down the road a bit open the gate and I pull the trailer into the property a ways to pull the cows away from the open gate. Usually there is never a problem everyone does what they are supposed to. 

        This time hubby goes to let the bull out and call the cows so everyone could get acquainted as usual. Darned if I didn't look back and see some cows wonder out the gate and up the road to our other property gate across the road! 

       Hubby tells me to jump in the truck go up the road turn it around and block the road so the cows wouldn't go too far. I told him no way! I can't turn it around that fast! You do it! 

      So he jumped in and dropped me off at the gate to block the ones in there and to let the others in. 

      No big deal pretty normal. Except! This time the other bull across the road came up to welcome the ladies from across the road! 

     Well that is not ok with the bull we just dropped off! He started heading to the gate to have a talk with that guy! Let him know real quick just how things are going to be! 

      Hubby was up the road shooing the cows back where they belong. I was at the open gate guarding it .... That is until I looked up to see about a 2000 lb bull in front of me eyeballing the bully directly behind me on the other side of the road. 

     They were both bellowing. I swear they had the yard stick out measuring everything to see who had the biggest part. 

       I looked at the bull directly in front of me and he gave me a look that let's  you know you are in the way and you wouldn't win ! 

     I quickly shut the gate!! Then moved out of the way! 

     Now I have heard two bulls "talking" across the road to each other but I have never been directly between two when they were chatting! 

     Oh my gosh!!! Sooo loud!!! I don't usually get too worried about things but there are some things you just  "know" you don't mess with! Bulls are something though you always watch no matter what.

       It was like two huge grizzly bears sparing. 

       Hubby got the cows back where they belonged and I guess they distracted bully enough we could open the gate without issues . 

      Wow! All these years and that was something I have never encountered up close and personal. 

      The picture above I barrowed from the net but they are the same color and size to give you a idea.

   

Love

Ranchmama 

The Things You Learn

With a new cookbook or 3 ! 

In my quest to find perfect prize winning pie and cake recipes, since I don't have any recipes handed down to me from my mom or anyone, I collected a few books recently that actually had won first place with there recipes. 

    It doesn't take much of a excuse for me to get a new book I can use and learn from.

     What I really learned from these is to use UNBLEACHED flour. Now tell me what is wrong with my thinker? All the things I do for myself and playing DR Mom to other folks to cut back on toxins and improve our health and I never thought of THAT ! 

   Sheesh! Head slap! Duh!!

I found what I  was looking for at Wally World the smaller stores are slow like me and haven't caught on yet.

Love 

Ranchmama