OK...Friday the 13th

[Kali]

- it was an odd day, the local sale barn "lost" a big steer that was going to be some much-needed cash. It will be paid for with insurance but that will take a while. On the way into town I saw three very "Indian" looking people sitting by the side of the highway. I am guessing they had given up the journey and were waiting for the Border Patrol to pick them up and send them back south. (and may explain a broken pipe we had a few days before) That kind of sight always gets me. Helps put minor shit in perspective, but it tends to make me moody and intolerant of other people and their gripes. I got into a fight with my family in the afternoon and then found something my oldest son wrote that was a nice surprise. A real up and down day.

Anyway about a week before, my cool neighbor found a cow of our way over on his west side, about as far from our mutual fenceline as she could have gone with out going onto the next ranch - in fact she probably had to have crossed 3 or 4 fences to get over there. Rather odd but who knows?

She was about to have a calf so I kept her in the corral in hopes of having her hang around closer to home after she dropped it. We shall see. BUT...here is the cool thing - she had it on Friday! My new little black Friday the 13th heifer! (damn! seems pretty anticlimactic after the freaking two day photobucket glitch)

Our cows mostly birth unassisted out on the range so births in the corrals are pretty rare. That's why it was kind of cool to me. Yes I am easily amused. I have no tee vee and dial up, after all. Here she is about 5 hours old (another slightly odd thing - she was born in the middle of the afternoon):