"Your Heifers are a Pain in My Ass"

That's the call I got from R one morning.  He had had to pull a calf from one of my heifers around midnight and another one that morning.  I had to go to work and wasn't helping with chores, so M called to let me know one of my heifers was calving.  I watched them on the cow cam until I had to run out the door to get to work.  The next day I broke the news to R that the heifer had a twin sister still waiting to calve so he'd better keep a good eye on her.  She, however, had a good size calf unassisted on Sunday so I'm done.  It's their own fault for giving me the little girls.  We only have four heifers left to calve and a handful of cows.  This time of year everyone loses interest in the cows, but we've had cold, wet and windy weather so we have to continue to be vigilant.  M has found some sick ones out in the herd.  We need some sun and warm so we don't have a repeat of the problems we had last year.  The grass is being pretty slow to green up and grow.  It, too, needs some sun and warm!

Spring seeding is going along at a snail's pace because, well....because Spring is progressing at a snail's pace.  Last week I drove to work in a couple of inches of slush because we had snow and this week the ground was white again.  It's not unusual to have spring snows, but we'd rather have nice, warm rain.  I think J got in a day or two of seeding before it was too wet again.  We thought we'd have an early spring, but it's not looking like that will be the case.  They've continued to have problems with the new sprayer.......yes, BRAND-NEW sprayer.  The service guys get here in a hurry now when they're called and the salesman is nervous! 

K is pretty sure there is no hope of us being done and ready to celebrate Sawyer's birthday on her birthday (May 21).  What was she thinking, having a baby in May?!  Almost as bad as when I had one in August.  His birthday party almost always consists of pizza and beer in the combine.

Sawyer made her first foray into the field and played in the dirt.  She discovered sticks and rocks and leaves and thoroughly enjoyed herself.  She's walking like a champ and is a busy, busy girl!