We had about 3/4" of rain on Saturday night. On Sunday night, I checked the weather radar and saw two systems, one to the south and one to the west. I told M that they were both going to miss us. I was right about that, but we had rain on and off all day Monday and got another 1/2". Not exactly what we need right now. As expected, I had to remind M of some things he said he was going to do "if it rains".
Yesterday, M and R planned to pull the bulls from the pasture near Richland and move them home. They had one cut out and when they tried to get the second one, the first one headed to the water and wouldn't move. Even Pete couldn't get him out so they left them there, and they may stay there until the water freezes.
This morning M woke me up early to help move the neighbor's cows. I told him it just wasn't right that I had to get up earlier on my day off than on a work day. He informed me that I don't have any days off. Swell! It was a bit cool and cloudy, 50 degrees when we took off, but it was really pretty nice as long as I had my hood up and my gloves on!. R and I had the 4-wheelers as well as Pete. M was in the pickup with Trip. Not sure how he would do chasing cows. We rounded the cows up to send them into the fields of hailed out wheat hoping they will clean up the pigeon grass that's coming and the remains of the wheat. The cows and calves were very cooperative, and it didn't take us long. We did find a dead cow in the bog. Not sure what happened there.
More rain was in the forecast for today, but we haven't had any, thank goodness. Hopefully, we can get back to cutting soon since everyone is getting stressed and crabby because we have so much left to do.
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