Monday we go to K3's game & she is the goalie. This is
her first year & she is doing great! We come home do chores, eat dinner,
and watch TV. Miley is outside on the porch barking like crazy. I get her in,
and think nothing about it. Half & hour later I go into the laundry room to
finish the laundry & hear Dora whinny twice. I head for the door & tell
Mark "something is wrong....Dora never whinnies." We grab our
flashlights, boots,and make sure to leave the dogs in.
Well, on the lawn is Dora, Little Man (the big beef) who was
suppose to be in my freezer but we decided he needed a few more months, and
Buddy (the herford steer). OH GREAT!!! Guess that's what Miley was barking at. The barn gate is wide open. Mark, obviously
never latched it! I open the door & ask K1 who is doing homework to help.
K2 is already in bed, K3 is in the shower.
Mark locks the other animals in the coral, so he can leave
the barn gate open & nobody else will get out, with the hopes that they
will just walk back into the barn. HA! I grab grain & a lead rope. I walk
right up to Dora & lead her back to the barn. Mark thinks he can herd the
cows to follow her. WRONG!
K3 gets out of the shower & lets the dogs out. This is
not helpful because they will just scare & chase the cows where we do not
want them to go. We get the dogs back in. The cows are close to the pasture so K1
runs to the barn & shuts off the fence. Next, K1 is on a mission for new
batteries because of course ours are dying. Mark lowers the wire & we herd them into
the pasture, put back up the fence, and turn it back on. Maybe we can leave
them there for the night?
Here comes the ram (Dave) to investigate, now we remember
they can't be together because they fight. Off they go into the darkness.
Meanwhile, for all those who have seen Mark in stress full situations, know what
a joy he is. He is barking out orders, yelling that we did this & that
wrong....K1 & I just ignore him & remind him several times that actually
this is his fault.....he left the gate unlatched.
Somehow Dave chases Little Man thru the fence & into the
chicken pasture. Now, he is after Buddy. He is chasing him toward the coral
gate. Mark opens it, keeping Dora and the other animals inside while Buddy runs
thru. Two down one to go.
We go over to the chicken pasture & Little man jumps back out onto the lawn. He runs down the driveway, somehow Mark manages to
cut him off before he gets to the road. I think Little Man is as stressed with
the situation as we are, so he just calmly walks back into the barn. We shut
& LATCH the gate.
This ordeal lasted about an hour. Once inside Mark apologies
for his behavior but states we are not good at chasing animals. I laugh and
again remind him he caused this, and that I had my animal (horse) in within 5
min and no problems. His animals (the cows) were the difficult ones. Now that everyone
is back in their place we can finally go to bed.
