Tonight after work I got a bunch of errands done and was busy in the house getting some laundry done and starting to make supper. Daryl was out in the field raking the hay and it was a really nice night outside. We might actually get the hay baled this time without it getting rained on. I hate to jinks it, but it’s looking promising!
Daryl raking up the hay tonight
Then when Daryl got done in the field and was feeding cattle all of a sudden he was in the kitchen asking for help. And the first thing you think of is ‘Now what happened’ right? Well this was both a good thing and a bad thing. Today No Ears had her babies. Yup, you heard right. She had twin calves – a heifer and a bull calf. But the bad part of this is that the heifer was dead by the time we found her with them. I don’t know what happened, if she was born dead or had a hard birth or what, but she was dead. This calf was an all black calf and it was really a pretty calf. But the other twin did live and it was a bull calf. He is so cute and his name is Earl. He’s pretty spunky already and tonight both No Ears and Earl are safe in the barn. No Ears has a pail of water and some corn and hopefully everything will go well for them tonight.
No Ears and her new little calf Earl
So after everyone was settled in the barn, Daryl and William took the little dead calf out in the back and buried it. Daryl said that Tango came over to see what they were doing and when he looked in the hole where the calf was he jumped up in the air and ran away as fast as he could. I don’t know if he got scared or what – but Daryl said that he reacted pretty funny. Now there wasn’t anything funny going on with Ed the bull though. Ed was MAD that No Ears and the calf were locked up in the barn. He was so mad that it even made William a little nervous and stayed on the outside of the pen tonight. And even as I’m writing this post I can hear him in the cow yard just making a lot of noise. Yea, he’s not happy about this one bit. But all in all it was an exciting night for us and I had to laugh when I saw Scarlet in the cow yard. She looked so grown up.
The night ended with my Mom calling and saying that my sister was going to stop over with the quilt that she just got done and if I had a chance to swing by to see it. She’s giving this quilt as a gift and if you ask me, that’s a pretty nice gift isn’t it? It looked awesome!!
Mom and my sister checking out the quilt
I have another sister that also quilts and somehow this talent missed me when I was born. I just don’t have the patience for that at all! I laugh when I think of how I made some of the Halloween costumes for the boys. Instead of getting a lot of sewing done for the costumes, it was the time of the year that my glue gun got used the most. And one year I made William into a mummy with gluing the pieces onto his sweat pants and sweat shirt. I didn’t give it much thought while I was doing it and the poor kid had to be a mummy for 7 hours without being able to go to the bathroom. The reason was because his clothes were all glued together. You have to admit that it’s kind of funny. Now to my defense I really rocked the costume that year!
And to finish out the night is a picture of one of my flowers blooming out front. I don’t know what kind they are, but they’re doing pretty good and are just starting to blossom. Check it out 