Adventures Of Life!

We started loading about 7:30 A.M. The first truck backed up to the loading chute and we loaded calves. That took up three and half trucks then the cows were loaded they took the rest , in total there were eleven trucks. The last load a driver exchanged his trailer in town for an empty and came back for the last load so they wouldn't miss it due to weather. This whole ordeal did not take place without incident, however. One of the trucks got stuck going over the cattle guard the wrong way and tore out his rear end in his truck. This happened after he just got done watching the first truck have trouble getting over the same cattle guard doing the same trick!( Mind you there was a line of 4 trucks getting ready to do the same route) It took an hour to get him out of the road so the others could pass. Another truck just about got stuck going the right way out of the drive. He miss judged the turn and got his trailer high centered on the turn and tried ram roddin it only to scrap the...

September was a difficult month didn't have anything to do with weather really. Mostly it was due to equipment failure. You expect that to happen on a ranch but not this much. It became rather frustrating to try and complete the task of haying. Already behind the "eight ball" so to speak, then we deal with faulty equipment. Oh, well part of the job! Finally after 3wks of fighting it, the swather broke for good. We ended our haying on the 16th! The rest of our hay is being hauled in from the other lease ground we have, so hopefully we will have enough for all the cows we will winter here this year! On another note, we traded in our black toyota pickup on a FJ Cruiser. Ol' Toyo had over 260,000 miles and hubby owned it since it had 32,000 miles so it was a bitter sweet goodbye. But the FJ is a nice rig! It has a bit on the higher mileage 95,000 but if it works like the other it is just broke in! When we left the dealer it was clean, but we have 38 miles of dirt road...