Hot day to start.... 67 was the low , nearly 80 by 9 a.m. Mostly sun and very humid compared to what we had yesterday.
Went out and got the hay spread in the garden that I had in the pile... The tomatoes along the cattle panels, peppers, 2 - 5ft rows of green beans, the 10 or so, summer squash patch that came up , the pathways between all them... are mulched. Can always use more but later on, when the rest is done. Worked up a sweat, then took ranger and got a bucket of grain and went to the nurse cow pasture... Fed calves in the barn, and forked the "good hay" into bunk feeders in a couple spots for the calves to eat... Came home and DS called... he was on his way to barn with calves...
They had a rodeo with one totally stupid acting heifer that took the corral panels down, knocked GF down, but luckily she only got bruised a little, but it could have been a real disaster. The heifer got out TWICE tearing stuff up... So she is there and will get loaded with the cows to come to the barn in another month or so... and she will get sold. She was determined she was not going to go on the trailer with the rest of the calves.... I am glad GF didn't get hurt... when she went down as the panel swung around she could have gotten badly smashed in the face... but when she went down and the heifer took the panel around it skimmed over her head and body on the ground as it came over and down... It was one of the panels that they were using to make an alley to load them so only 3 panels long.... DS said he kept hollering for her to let it go, but she had her arm through the panel around one bar to hold it tight against the trailer door so couldn't get untangled from it as the heifer was pushing to get out... It could have been real BAD....
DS also brought home 2 cows that the calves are used to, sorta as nursemaids for them to learn to come in the barn for feed when he calls... And the irony is that the stupid idiot's MOMMA cow is one of the two that just went right in the pen with the calves so he loaded her up with the other cow that had 2 calves nursing her... SO.... DUMB BELL is out there at the pasture and her momma is not out there.... the cow is a normal calm decent cow..... DS said this stupid heifer just did not want to be in the pen... and after she got out, she went around the back side of the pen and stood there, with the cows on the inside.
DS said she is going on the truck to the stockyard whenever we get them back to the barn.... NOT keeping a miserable witch like that. She is out of one of his cows that has never been a problem...
And to top it off , there were more animals out there than I had on the list... 3 steers I had no idea were out there... they were weaned steers and I had them listed at being at the barn... and DS and I went over numbers at the barn... and he kept saying that these steers didn't match the list...
SO... we have 1 calf with a ripped out eartag, and 2 missing... so the no tag one is one of the 2.... He is going to go out and look at 2 cows tomorrow to see who has an udder since all the calves but stupid are at the barn...guessing one of the 2 cows might have lost a calf... it could even be across the fence with the neighbor's cattle... but maybe it died... NO ONE has been counting calves out there... if they had I would have known something was not right since there were more calves than I had on the list...
At least I had the records of the 3 "extra steers" out there, who they were weaned off of.... so that is good. Of course, he gets mad when I get on his case about WHO HE TOOK WHERE........but without keeping these lists, we would not know who is where, who is missing, who is extra, ETC and so ON.......
So as soon as we figure out who the calf with the torn out tag is... ear is split, nearly all the way to it's head... we will know who is missing. We have it narrowed down to 2 cows... All these cows are pregnant due to calve starting Sept...
So, I found all this out at the barn, because the 2 calves on the one cow, had never been banded... DS is not sure why not... but he called to see if I could come to the barn to help him get them banded... So, I went down to help him get them in the chute and get them banded and that is when we got into the list of who was there and who were the "extra" calves... so spent time there I did not anticipate.. but it was okay....
I came home, got the samples packed that did not get sent out Friday.... got the clothes off the line... took a shower since I was so sweaty... and left to go to the chiropractor... DS called when I was on my way, and said he was debating about raking the hay because he went out there to the pasture where he had cut some (same place I raked the other hay field)of the field, and that it was not as green as he thought... because Jim went out there to spray thistles and DS had to take the other tractor out there to bale with and Jim could give him a ride back.....we played musical tractors yesterday because of the one that he didn't want to use with the leaking radiator... and he looked at the hay. So, I told him to do whatever he thought... they were still saying we had 40% chance of showers... and he finally decided to wait until later this afternoon. He said his head was bothering him, and the heat was getting rough.
I dropped the samples at the UPS store, drove down and went to the chiropractor...feel much better after adjustment....went to Goodwill down near there, then came back on the way home...hit some rain starting in Roanoke (where I was, 70 miles south) ... skies were dark... Went to the bank on the way home since I was pushing for time when I went down. Then I went by Lowe's to see if I can come up with a solution to the shelves in the freezer "bowing" a little in the middle that makes the shelf come off the little ledge it fits on that is so very small... the little "ledge" that the shelf fits on is like 1/2 inch... where the shelf slides on... all the other makes of freezers have the same ledge that their shelves sit on that are at least 1-2 inches wide . There is no way that the shelf can bow enough under weight, to come off those shelf ledges...
I know I have a lot of weight on these shelves... but this is not a freezer that has 25 boxes of frozen pizzas sitting on them or a few containers of ice cream or some packages of vegetables.... this freezer has frozen chickens, frozen beef, frozen blocks of ponhous (scrapple) you name it and they are heavy... I use this freezer for holding frozen food... not for a convenience to keep some "extra food"...
GRRRR
So, I will try to rearrange the food on the shelf a bit so it will not slip... then I will have to take the food off the next shelf and re do it since it has slipped on one side... I have 1 full shelf's worth of food in the freezer chest so I could take the shelf with me... I am trying to think of what I can use to "stiffen it", from underneath it... just wish the side "rails " the shelf sits on, were wider... and they are made in the sides of the freezer....
It is still 83 out, sun going down and muggy as all get out... It never did rain here... radar showing it staying just north10- 20 miles or so... and tonight's radar showing it to stay about 30-40 miles south for what storms they might get. Guess we are not going to get anything. I will talk to DS and see what he did or didn't do so I can go rake whatever needs it tomorrow morning before it gets too terribly hot. I have to water plants here and see about getting the soaker hoses out in the garden. Tomorrow....
Got quite a few things done on the list... more to do....
. Nothing coming for a week, it seems. Grass is dry but not crunchy and drying. Still moist in leaf when crushed. Seems good grazing from way goats are doing. 
Still decent dew in morns, so I'll be ok if we get the moisture predicted. Now, the garden? Young plants getting watered. 
Might be too hot, too....We'll see...
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