Spring Break Adventures

Spring break was good and very, very needed. I was sick the week before break along with taking most of my mid-terms so I was super-tired at the beginning of break. I think I slept 1/2 way to where we went! Ok, not quite...Tommy has been tired of driving my car because it doesn't have cruise control so I drove most of the way there and then he drove for the last hour or so.  It was good that he drove then because it was after midnight and I am not a night owl.  I don't usually study after about 10:30 at night because my brain tends to turn off about that time.  I saw a coyote while I was driving and Tommy saw lots of deer and a cougar after he took over.  I don't remember the deer or cougar because I was asleep then.  Bummer!

I drove tractor for Tommy's dad and harrowed his pastures to get them smoothed out.  I have the radio memorized again now. :-)  One evening I even listened to Adventures in Odyssey...it had been a long time since I listened to that show on the radio.  I really enjoyed it.  I also helped out at the airport and cleaned spray nozzles for the planes and helped take the airplanes apart for the annual inspections.

Since Tommy's dad has cows, I got to ride along for morning chores and help.  Tommy was nice enough to do most of the work with feeding bales so I could take pictures.  That was a lot of fun!  The cows did not really know what to do think of me because I was getting pretty close to take some of these pictures.  While we were feeding one morning, a cow calved...I didn't have my camera that day unfortunately.  The calf was so funny trying to walk around because he didn't know how to walk yet. 

The day we left Tommy and I stopped at a neighbor's place because they had a foal born several days earlier.  He was really cute and so curious!  Since the mare was really gentle, we could get into the pen with them.  We were feeding cubes to the mare so we could get close to him and he thought that he wanted some cubes too, but he didn't know what they were.  The colt wasn't sure if he liked us touching him either.  It was pretty funny!  He'd get close and then he'd spook and move away, but he would be back soon for more.  I want to go back during our next school break and see how much he has grown.

While we were seeing the colt some of the calves in the next pen over became curious to see what was happening so they came over.  One of them was a little bolder than the others (not much), but bold enough that we could hand-feed him. (Most cows/calves aren't)  It has been a long time since I hand-fed a calf!  He wasn't sure that he wanted to be that close to us, but he sure wanted those cubes!

And today I am thankful for:

Curious calves

 Long tongues and courage to take the cubes.

Foal: just 3 days old

Long whiskers and curiosity.

God's painting

Soft muzzles nuzzling hands

Funny newborn calves

Easily fixed hydraulic hoses (yes, there is a story, but not today.  I will suffice to say that it wasn't my fault)

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