Good afternoon. Manda, what a relief for you! I sure do hope all goes as well as it sounds.
YPG, thanks for updating us. Any improvement is cause for rejoicing.
So sorry to hear about Wayne's accident but glad he isn't seriously injured.
Kat, I'm a sissy about colds but yes, with all the flu going around, one has to be thankful for only a cold.
Squirrel, it's good to hear of help for the people you are serving. I've had discussions recently with both my niece and my daughter about some who seem to fall between the cracks and/or don't know how to go about getting help. The need seems to get overlooked especially in these small towns out this way.
Muzz, it's good to hear you are feeling better.
I'm home again today. Husband had a real good day yesterday, and so did his attendants and his wife.
I had intended to go back today but the cows needed to be fed and my niece has so many things going on right now, I decided to go ahead and feed them myself, with some idea I could get through in time to go ahead and go to town. Instead, I got off into an adventure. I started out with cubes and went to my cows first. They were scattered and it took a long time for them all to come to where I was calling them.
Then I decided to go straight across the pastures to my niece's place (only a couple of miles, but rough pasture paths) instead of the six miles around the county road. When I got to our division fence, all of her cows were right up against the gate/fence, bawling eagerly. They'd heard my siren when I fed my cows and were trying to get to it but were stopped by the fence.
My dilemma was how to get through the gate without some of them spilling into my pasture, which would be a nightmare to try to sort out. I tried to shoo them back away from the gate but they weren't having it. They know what my truck and cart are all about and all they wanted was to get to it. But I was pretty sure they would follow the cube cart so I took a chance and opened the gate and drove through and started putting out cubes along the fence on her side. They all followed me--except for one tiny little calf, which got on my side of the fence and was following the herd, but on the wrong side.
I'd gone a good distance, knowing there was no place for the calf to get across in the direction we were going, so I crawled through the fence (barbed wire that is strung pretty tightly) and walked back toward the gate twice, trying to drive the baby calf along, knowing all the while that it would never work. Trying to drive a small calf is similar to herding cats. I tried to call my niece for help a couple of times but there was absolutely no phone service out there and really, the two of us couldn't have done it anyway.
Finally, as I was trying my best to deal with the calf, while praying in earnest for a solution, the calf charged into the fence and managed to crash through it. I'd thought it might find its way through at some point but the fence is not real old and the wires are tight and I couldn't go off and leave it separated from its mama. I was very relieved and grateful. I went on and got my niece to go with me to put out hay.
By the time we finished it was past noon and my allergies had been stirred up by the wind and weeds and dust. So I got cleaned up and ate a peanut butter sandwich and settled in for the day. Then I got a call from the nursing home that my husband had tried to get up and had taken a fall. He wasn't hurt but they have to let me know when something like that happens. It begins to seem that every good day for him is followed by a bad one.
All of you stay safe in your upcoming nasty weather. We're turning cold again tomorrow too but I don't think we'll get any precipitation.