Mud, Mud, and More Mud!

The last few days or maybe weeks we have seen our fair share of rain at Liberty Belle Acres.  I'm all for rain...it keeps the grass and flowers growing, but too much of anything is not a good thing.  Yesterday morning we hurried over to the mall to take back the faulty elliptical I received from KC as an anniversary present.  It wasn't raining and KC wanted to get back to the farm asap as it was moving day for some of the bovine.  Well it rained on us all the way back home.  It was not only raining, but it was pretty chilly out too.  To work with the cows, I wore my bibs and a big heavy jacket to try to keep me dry. We tried pumping water to the new holding pen across the road where the cows were being moved to.  No such luck...it didn't work for some reason, so we had to scrap that plan.  After checking all of the fences, we decided to just load the kids up and take them across the road.   Luckily the first 5 or so cows loaded themselves into the trailer, no problem.  That wasn't the case as we went to drive away.  Trying to keep the nice truck nice, KC used the older, smaller truck to hook up to the trailer.  As I went to drive away, I knew it was a bad idea and thought the truck was going to snap in half!  With a little rearranging of trucks and trailers, we were on our way to take the first load of cattle across the road.  All was going fine until the truck and trailer backed a little too close to the ditch.  It seemed like we were having one problem after another.  The next load went a little easier, but Number 42 needed a little coaxing to get in the trailer.  After I gave her a hug and a pat, I decided to get up in the trailer and give it a try.  She came right to me!  I left her to eat some grain and KC closed the trailer gate.  She is now across the road and not so easy to see from the house.  Atleast she is still around though.

This morning KC decided to load up Whitey and Butterscotch again.  After about an 1/2 hour we got Butterscotch loaded, but Whitey wasn't so easy.  We tried a few more times over the course of 2 hours, but knew she wasn't going to have any part of getting in the trailer this morning.  So, we made the hard decision to send Butterscotch to the sale without her buddy.  As we pulled out of the driveway, Whitey looked pretty lonely watching us leave. I told Butterscotch good bye and petted her head as she was unloaded at the sale. We stayed to see Butterscotch sell.  It was very hard to watch her in the sale ring, but the man who bought her also bought another of our heifers late last fall, so we think she has a good home.  With tears in my eyes, we left the sale and headed home.  Definitely something I have to get over if we are going to make this farm thing work.