Tuesday Nov 23,10

When I got up this morning Cindy called for the forecast out here. It called for the wind to come up today and stronger tomorrow and not very warm. So I went and plugged the tractor in so I could feed the critters. I left it plugged in for a couple hours. Cindy called back to say she was on her way home, so I dressed up and went out to feed. Tractor still didn’t want to start and it dawned on me that I had a team!

The horses were let out north, but had come in close to the corrals so I baited them with grain, caught up Ron and Roz and harnessed them. Man, that ol’ harness was stiff. It does that when it’s been below zero all night. Drove them out and hooked on to the bale wagon. Started off and Roz got stupid, pitched a fit for some odd reason and fell down, twice. Ron was so embarrassed! I had to unhook her from the wagon to get her up the second time and then saw that she had broken the ring out of the pole strap and the snap on her outside line. So I hooked the line back up best I could, unhooked, put them away and brought the broken harness to the house and fixed it, went back out, re-hooked up to the wagon and fed a bale to the cows and also a grass bale to the horses. Stupid cows wanted the horse hay and so they got mixed and I said the hell with it and left them mixed for now. All this time, Wren and Rill, the young team, were running around whinnying and acting stupid, cuz they couldn’t figure out why Ron and Roz were pulling a wagon. Evidently they have never seen this before! I unharnessed the team,turned them out, hooked up a hose for the calves and chopped and threw ice out of their tank and pitched hay to them while the tank was filling. Then I came to the house with two frozen hoses to thaw out. Now I am tired and ready to eat. That’s been my morning. How was yours? 🙂