What To Do??

We have actually had a few "what to do" days lately.  There is spraying to be done but sprinkles of rain and gale force winds for four days kind of put the kibosh on that.  M is contemplating starting to lay some hay down and has been getting the swather ready.  I think he's dragging his feet, though, because it might interfere with his lake plans?!?  J is also thinking about the lake and took the camper to town for his wife to clean and was working on his new (to him) jet ski.  I'm not holding my breath that we'll get there.

Over the weekend we went to R's best friend's wedding.  R was a groomsman so made a quick trip home to participate.  Those are always fun events, and we got to see a lot of people that we don't see often enough. He has a bit of a dilemma in that he probably has a hernia so his boss won't let him on the fire line until he has a definitive diagnosis and/or gets it fixed.  There was a chance that some of their crew could be sent to the fires in Colorado, and he was hoping to go.  He's not a very happy guy right now.  He sees the surgeon on July 6 to see where to go from here.

We had planned to go to the Opheim Rodeo on Sunday as it is the big event of the year in our area and our nieces and nephew, neighbors and friends participate.  We had to make a quick run up to check on the cow water first thing in the morning.  There is no natural water in the pasture, just a well and tank.  At first we checked it every day and started the generator.  Then M thought we could just go up every other day.  When we got there on Sunday morning the tank was dry.  Not good!  And, we could only see a few cows.  Again, not good!  We started the generator and had water pumping and went to find the cows.  They were huddled up at the gate going into the pasture we had moved them from.  They knew there was water there.  They hadn't broken through it yet, thank goodness.  They followed us back to the tank but there was a lot of pushing and shoving to get to the water and the pump couldn't keep up at that time.  We stayed there awhile to make sure they didn't break anything and went home when things settled down a bit.

By the time we got home we had missed the parade and would be late for the rodeo.  The wind was howling so we thought it might be better to stay home and watch NASCAR.  After the race M went back to check the water again.

My sister from North Carolina was here for a few days so I was glad to have time to go to my mom's for lunch with her, my mom and my sister-in-law.  Another thing I don't do often enough.

We did some cow work and moved our last six pairs to their summer pasture and a couple of cull cows back home so that they can go to the sale barn soon.  That went pretty smoothly, and I'm always surprised when it does.

My replacement at work quit and my boss is gone for a few days so at least I know what I have to do.