GallBlabber

This one time, at the farm...

Hey...remember that day that Mike and Martha and Joy all lost their minds and volunteered to help work cows? We all met in the driveway before God was up. Daddy drew out the plan on the sand table, and we went over our strategy. Then, at Tommy's suggestion, we erased the plan so the cows wouldn't know what we were doing. We got them all rounded up except one crazy one and her bull calf...and we ran around like crazy trying to get them in the fence, and they just wouldn't go in.

Then we tried to keep the crippled cow in the fence, but she went insane and charged the gate and almost killed John, and then she got her head stuck in between the bars and bent them WAY out. When we finally got them all under the shelter, a few got out...but Martha was standing at the gate and we were able to keep them from getting away. The sight of the "emasculation chamber" made Mike shudder. And then Joy got to try her hand at fixing a bull. She got it halfway done, and then the cow freaked out, so John, the seasoned professional, finished it up. As we were letting the cows back out into the pasture, they'd walk through the gate, see Martha, and flip out. Then we had to get a few cows into the trailer to sell. Joy did a fine job of working the gate as the guys pushed the cows one by one into the trailer.

At the end of the day, all we could say was "at least this time we didn't let the whole herd out of the fence..."

posted by Carroll @ 11:50 AM