When you live out in the country there are some people that you want to make friends with. And one of them is the Road Grader Man. Even though his friendship in the summer is still important, it can’t beat his friendship in the winter. Now I don’t know if you live out in the country and have a road grader go by your house – but this is how it works for us. On cold and stormy days, we lay in bed and try to listen for a noise coming up our road. Since we remodeled it’s become a little bit harder to listen for, but you can still hear him coming if you listen close. It’ll be almost to the minute of 5:30 am when you hear a faint noise and then you can start to hear some scraping outside. It’s the road grader man clearing our gravel road and you wake up smiling knowing that the road will be clear. You always want to stay on the good side of this person because he’s the guy who will say that either you’ll get to work on time, or you’re going to be staying home for the day. Every time I meet him I make sure that I give him plenty of room or I even stop at the end of the road just so he can do his job and I won’t get in the way. And as he drives by I give him a big smile and a wave to say, Thanks!
Miss Scarlet is doing really good and I had to laugh when Daryl told me tonight that he was going to take her outside so Sassy would see her and hopefully let her drink. When Daryl opened the milk house door to take Scarlet outside, he said that she followed him all the way through the barn and to the outside cow yard. He said she was so good and then she stood in the yard and just bawled for her mother. Sassy came over to her and let her drink for just a second and then off she went again. Now No Ears om the other hand does want to be her mother, so I don’t know what we’ll do. The weather did get up to around 20 degrees above 0 today, so that’s tons better than where we were a week ago. But it’s still too cold for the little calf. So back she followed Daryl through the barn and into the milk house for the night. Daryl did buy some milk replacer for the calf and that’s what she’s been drinking twice a day. It would be so much easier though if Sassy would just cooperate!
Mixing up the milk replacer this morning
I can totally relate to the grader man and to milk replacer as both we common sights when I was growing up on our family farm!