Internet and cell phone has been out here for 24 hours. Land line was the only thing working in this area. No one knows WTF went down ? Possibly a major tower failure. ALL cell services were down.
Anyways, Been a REAL interesting week...Thought we were done at the lease farm. Moved cattle Saturday. The guy bought the lease farm went and bought his own cattle ? Got them out of the stockyard in Springfield.......I about SHIT !!! He screwed the pooch !!!
These are small 800 .lb weight heifers, in the 3rd trimester, thin, and too small to be bred in my opinion. This guy is nice enough ? But ain't got a friggin clue to what the hell he's doing. The first thing he said to me is he's going to start bag feeding them......And in no uncertain terms I told him he was out of his F!@#$%# MIND !!!! DON'T FRIGGIN DO THAT !! You're gonna have small cows with BIG calves !!!! A breeding nightmare !!! I KNOW FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE !!!! He ain't gonna listen. period.
THEN !! He decided he didn't want to pay the price for the cow calf pairs that Drew had, bought these little cows, BEFORE the lease expired, they broke a fence, and got in with Drews cows.....A MAJOR screw up. We had to quarantine and sort 14 head out of these squirrely cattle he bought.
While I doing something something else ? The girlfriend of his and Drew's wife got in a serious pissing contest. The girlfriend apparently insinuated that we were trying to take cows that weren't ours.......BAD MOVE !!! We were already on plan P after starting at plan A, The heat was coming up, we were running short on time. Then the gal stands in the WRONG place when trying to get this mess in to sort them. At this point Tasha hollers from a 100 yards away ? GET THE F@#$ OUT OF THE WAY !!! Then shit stared going sideways, The last cow of ours breaks left, another breaks right. I bale off the quad runner and hoof it for the left cow, she breaks for the right one, and stupid gets out of the way. I'm at a dead run, and my pistols flies out of the holster, lands in a fresh pile. I slam on the brakes grab it, and peel out again. All works out in the end, barely. One of the lovely cows he bought charged me, and came about 3 feet from being dead. There were 4 of us, We worked around 50 head and got them moved and shipped to the home ranch, Even with all the delays and plan changes ? We were firing on all 8 cylinders and going 200 mph...
Now mind I knew something had hit the fan ? But didn't know exactly what. A little later the girlfriend starts asking me what the hell is wrong with Tasha ? I ask whatchoo mean ? She says she's kinda snarly. I proceed to tell her we are on plan P, running into the heat, everyone is getting short on bright and sunny disposition. I also tell her that Tasha don't play all sunshine and rainbows, and ain't real talkative from the getgo. She's her fathers daughter.
She proceeds to tell me that she don't want to mess with a Texas girl........I suggest she might not want screw with a Missouri farm girl who grew up on a hog farm, who now runs a tree service with her Dad. You do what ya want ? But ya might wanna pack a lunch. I ain't gonna mess with her. I know better. That must have been enough. Everyone decided to keep their distance. So, without a clue ? I became the on farm diplomat. Ain't that the shit.
Sooo, after all the festivities are over ? Drew comes over and asks if I'm alright ? Huh ? whatchoo mean ? The girls come over and ask the same question ? I ask WTF are you talking about ? Are you feeling alright ? Sure , why ? Well, ALL the shit that went on today ? You never lost your temper or even got pissed off ? ....No time to get pissed off. THEN, they proceed to tell me what the hell went on with the girlfriend.
It hits me that maybe the sun does shine on a dogs ass sometimes. With everything still at stake ? It's better I didn't know.
In the morning we have to move 90 round bales out of the back barn ? And the years of the Hoxworth lease farm are officially over. Both the old folks are gone, The kids couldn't wait till they were gone to sell off the mothers family farm....Been on it since 2017, Good times, Bad times, Everything moves on and changes. Oh well, what the hell. Beautiful place, gonna miss it.
Just got done stuffing 40 .lbs of Brats, It's after 2 in morning, I'm going to bed.............................Fun week.....Not really.
