Lazy Sunday.....well, almost!

The guys had made the move from Glentana to Opheim and cut lentils there on Friday and Saturday but ran into some that weren't quite ready.  So, yesterday afternoon we made the move back to Glentana where the combines are sitting until Monday morning.

That meant a day off today, sort of.  We hung around the house and watched the NASCAR race.  We had talked about going golfing but neither of us were very excited about making the drive to town.  Instead, we took the 4-wheelers and went to check cows and take them mineral and salt.  When we got there all the cows were right by the gate so M decided to move them to the next pasture.  I asked if the fence had been checked.  M was pretty sure it had been because the original intention this spring had been to put them in that pasture first. 

The cows immediately headed south toward the water hole so M tried to beat them there with on the 4-wheeler to make sure the gate there was closed.  I think they beat him there.  I went to make sure there weren't any strays hiding anywhere.  By the time I got to the water hole M was busy fixing some fence through a coulee.  We had to scrounge around through the fencing box to find any clips or splicers so he could tighten the wires.  We were going to check a couple more gates on our way home so headed west.  Before we could get to the end of the coulee there were a cow and a calf out.  More fence to fix while wading through grass up to our armpits and rapidly running out of clips and splicers.  Could have used a post pounder, too, which we didn't have along.

We stopped at his parent's house for a cold drink on our way home.  When we got home I suggested that we should go check on the heifers so we headed north.  There we found a bunch of calves on the road.  We ran them back into the pasture and proceeded to fix more fence.  The whole pasture is fenced with old sheep fence that's getting pretty old and brittle and needs to be replaced.  M says we need to move that fence tot the top of our priority list.  That list is getting so long that I don't think we'll get to the bottom of it in our lifetime.  M's dad used to spend his summers fixing fence, but he can't do it anymore and we are really missing his help.  We can't move the cows out of there either because the alternative pasture has winter fence damage that we haven't had time to fix either.  Are you seeing a pattern here?  Too much to do and never enough time.

We did have a relaxing evening with burgers on the grill and a movie.  Back to harvest tomorrow.