Another cattle jailbreak into the yard

Sometimes I think the cattle can read my mind.  This morning I thought about putting into the north pasture a bale of hay for the cattle as the hayfield is fairly well eaten down.  The cattle were fine so I decided to go uptown to get groceries and then buy the cattle some salt blocks and a tub of SmartLic mineral lick supplement.  The tub is 250 pounds and the two store employees has trouble lifting the tub into my pickup's bed.  Then in the afternoon I planned to put the hay bale out for the cattle.

As I came home I noticed the fence was broken. It appears Toby most likely pushed the boards off the fence.

No cattle were in the hayfield.

Donna's car was in my yard. She had gotten a call from the sheriff's department as they thought her cell phone number was my phone number.  I then saw Donna by the north fence to the neighbor's yard.  Maria and her calf were in my NE pasture and the rest of the cattle were in the neighbor's yard.  The yard has a chain-link fence and gate.   Tye and Donna were talking.

I was going to cut my barb wire fence but Donna and Tye said they would help me herd the cattle to the road and then over to my gate to the NE pasture.  The cattle didn't want to leave his yard but I got Mama and Beulah to leave then over to my pasture.  Then I got over half of the cattle that were left out of the yard and to my pasture.  Then Toby and the rest left and went to my yard.

Then I herded all the cattle into my corral and then counted then to make sure I had all the cattle.  I did.

Once in the corral the cattle chilled out and relaxed.

Mama

Later in the afternoon I put a large hay bale out in the north pasture.  I closed the gates to the hayfield as the cattle are done with that field for the year.  Tomorrow I will fix the fence.

More snow and cattle jailbreak

I had seen on the newspaper's weather page that normally by now we could have 1.1 inches of snow.  We have had 11 inches of snow so far this year.  The snow we had earlier finally melted a few days ago. And this morning it started snowing again.  By this evening the wind picked up and is howling.  It is suppose to be like this till Monday.   Great.  Just great.  Another day of getting nothing done.  I am happy Donna's hay baler was fixed and I was able to tow it back to her house yesterday afternoon when it was still nice, and not this morning.

I had let Daisy outside early in the morning.  I woke up again a little after 7 am to a sound.  I thought it was Daisy wanting to get back inside the house.  I looked out the door and saw Speckles in the yard by the house.  I looked and several of the fence boards in the front yard were off the fence.  Only Speckles was in the yard.  The rest of the cattle were off in the hayfield.  Speckles wanted back to the hayfield.  I opened the back yard gate I installed this Summer and she ran back into the hayfield.

Then I went and nailed the boards back to the fence posts.  I also added a few more steel fence posts to lean and help support the fence from being pushed over in the future.  I also closed the driveway gate as I had forgot to do so last night.  At least it didn't start snowing until after I was done fixing the fence.

Cattle in the sun, and full moon

The past so many days the weather warmed up back to normal.  Global warming must be back since we finally warmed up to normal temperatures.  The cattle and I need to enjoy it as the weather forecast by this upcoming weekend is for well below normal temperatures, and cold and snow.

The cattle were enjoying the sun this morning. 

Box elder trees.  The tree on the left is the female tree.  It holds on to its seeds (that you see) until Spring.  The tree on the right is the male box elder tree.

Toby the bull and Beulah the head cow.

Saturday I took photos of the full moon as it rose above the mountains.