Saturday, September 13, 2014

Delays and sunset

I went for a hike today.  I was delayed twice.  First, I found a dead mouse in the house.  In the mousetrap by the dryer.  The mousetrap killed the mouse before Daisy did.  My sense of smell is bad as the mouse had been dead for a while and I didn't smell it.

Then as I was driving to the hiking meetup I noticed one black calf outside the fence at the neighbor's place.  The cattle can still get to the one neighbor's place and this calf got through the neighbor's bad fence to another neighbor's property.

I crossed the field to reach the calf.  Some of the cattle were at this end of the field.  My running across the field got them excited and they came my way.  Before the cattle reached me I got through the fence to the field with the calf who then got excited.  He or she (in my hurry I didn't look) then ran along the fence searching for how he or she got through it.   I tried not to hurry the calf but it couldn't find the spot it had squeezed through the fence.  It ran back to the corner then pushed its way through the fence pulling one wire off the fence.  But it was able to get back to the herd who now were on the other side of the fence and agitated and milling.

I patched the fence and down the way, away from the cattle, crawled back through the fence and headed back to my car.  The cattle were looking at me. I began to hurry and they got more excited and I broke into a run and they came running.  I ran faster and got over the gate before they reached me.

*whew*

I then went off for a full day of hiking in the mountains.

Later, after I got home, I saw this sunset.





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