Well this afternoon I told hubby boy I sure am tired ! Then I stopped to think about the day and figured it out.
I was up at 5am.
Hubby was out with the birds earlier than that. He came back and got Heidi Ho because since he has gone through the building and plugged all the mouse hole he trapped a bunch in the building. Heidi had such a good time! She lovesss to catch mice and kill them. She chased and killed 3 running all over the place and under cages and hubby killed 3 himself with a broom and disposing of them.
I took a shower, did my breathing machine thing while he was out.
Hubby wanted me to check something out with the checking accounts and when I went to log in my password had expired. He came back in the house several times all antsy wanting to know if I was ready yet. I put the phone on speaker so he could see what the delay was after I explained I tried several times to reset the password and finally had to call them to fix it. Took forever so I carried the phone around while I was getting ready waiting for someone to get on the phone. Drying hair and gathering things. Finally got that fixed and got the information he wanted and of course I was supposed to walk out the door ready to go because he got what he wanted and just couldn't understand what the delay was for me! Grrrr sometimes!
We were out the door by 8:10 which was 10 minutes late for hubby and he just had to get all bent out of shape about it.
We drove to Shawnee running by Micky D's eating and since I drove to town he finished the drive to OKC. After we finished our business I got the pleasure of driving home to give him a break.
We got home around 12 ish. We unloaded the truck from Sam's. He changed clothes and went down to the barn to get feed for the cows.
I came in did the darn breathing machine again, changed into work clothes and told Heidi Ho to load up in the truck.
We stopped at Grandma's first and was feeding the bunch of cows there and some of them started bumping heads. First 2 then 3 or 4 were at it. Hubby had to make sure and stay out of the way of the shifting herd. We saw a big red cow get knocked down then we saw a really old cow go down on her side and couldn't get up.
He's yelling at me to get out and help with the down cow. It didn't help when she was kind of facing the wrong side of the hill to get up. I helped him get the rope over her head and got in the truck with him directing me to gently pull a certain direction so maybe she could get up. Well she did and wound up going back down the wrong direction again!
So I let Heidi Ho out to encourage her to get up. That didn't work. She nipped at her but I was afraid she was going to hurt her so put Heidi back in the truck. Hubby got hold of the front legs and I got the back trying to roll her over and not get kicked in the process. She was just too much for us to handle like that.
I told hubby lets go feed the other cows and come back. That will give her a chance to calm down and rest a bit and maybe we can get her up again.
We fed the other cows and since we had at least 2 inches of rain yesterday we burned some trash.
We took Heidi Ho home because sometimes she is just too much to handle all excited and doing things with the cows. Hubby picked up the hot shot thinking maybe that would get her going.
We went back to grandmas and damn it she was still laying down! We pulled up and she was Mooing like she was wanting to get up or needed help or something. He cleared the area around her with the hot shot and tried it twice on her and we could see it wasn't going to get her up. He thought hook the rope up to the trailer hitch and try puling her so she would be lined up on the hill right.
I told him no lets just see if we can pull her up. He just about laughed at that ! Oh sure like we are strong enough to do something like that now days! Got the rope around her neck and I was in the lead with hubby pulling behind me. We got lucky. I guess on the ground like that we could actually direct her in a way she could get up easier. She got up and wobbled some. We jumped out of the way so she wouldn't fall on us.
I was worried she wouldn't be able to get with the herd but hubby put some more feed out and she ran right over and got in the middle of it with them! Whew! We got lucky!
Went back to the house and I went in changed clothes again and sat in the recliner drinking a bunch of water to keep my BP down decent. I watched some Netflix while he was shutting up gates, checking birds etc. While he was down there Heidi Ho looked around the birdhouse for mice to kill. She was actually disappointed. LOL
Hubby came in cleaned up and I went into the kitchen for supper. I sliced up a nice pork tenderloin and bagged that up. We had fried tenderloin spiced up with garlic & onion powder and chili powder, masked potatoes with gravy and warmed french garlic toast.
No wonder my hips and back hurt after playing tug of war with a cow! LOL
Love
Ranchmama
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