Thank God for AC

So much for my plan to stay inside my nice, cool, air-conditioned house today since temps were going to get close to 100.  M asked me to take salt and mineral to two groups of cows.  I took a walk first thing this morning and then went to do that chore before the heat of the day.  The first group of cows seemed perfectly content and the bulls were still where they were supposed to be so all was good there.  Then I went to the other pasture where there are a bunch of heifers.  They usually come running when they hear or see someone.  I moved the tubs and filled them with salt and mineral and didn't see a critter.  I rode up onto the top of the hill and looked all around and still saw nothing.  By that time I'm beginning to panic that the whole group had disappeared and I would have to find them and try to get them back to the pasture.  I checked all the gates and they were fine.  I just thought it so odd that I couldn't see even one animal.  Finally I found them hiding in some trees.--whew! 

From there I took lunch to J, M and Jared who were all at the hay field.  J was on his way to Opheim where he was doing some dirt work with the new scraper.  He had a flat on the skid steer so needed the service truck and tools to get it off and get it fixed.  Jared had broken the grapple on the loader tractor.  Actually, it wasn't the first time it had happened so it wasn't really his fault.  It was getting too dry for M to bale so he and I headed to Opheim, too.

R had noticed a couple of calves out of the pasture in the adjacent wheat field while he was swathing and found a broken wire but didn't have anything to fix it with.  M and I got the calves back into the pasture and fixed the fence.  R had also found a washout that had gotten worse this year where calves could just walk out under the fence.  We had the wrong pickup since we were on our way to take fuel to R so didn't have a post.  We tried to find a rock to tie wire to and couldn't find one.  What are the odds that we couldn't find a rock when we needed one--unbelievable.  So, Marty found an old guard in the pickup and hammered it into the ground and then tied wire to it.  Pretty ingenious, I thought.

After that we needed to take a pickup to R.  He had moved the swather to cut for a neighbor.  M wanted to take the route cross country but decided there was too much tall grass to get through so we had to go by road.  I had R's work pickup and the AC didn't keep up.  I was wringing wet by the time we got to our destination.  We fueled the swather and helped R change some guards and sections.  He wasn't very happy about where he was cutting since it was rough and full of rocks.  Typical of that neighbor to have someone else cut the crappy stuff.  If it was me, I'd tell him I had better things to do.  Oh well, R needs the money!

I got home about 5:30 and headed straight to the shower.  I'm hoping the heat melted off a few pounds!