A day like that...

Ever had a day LIKE THAT???

You know the one...that starts out rough, and ends rough...

Well, yesterday...Tuesday, April 5th...was my day LIKE THAT!

It all started when the alarm went off at 3 am...Yep...3 AM!  Why?  Well, my Mr. was headed to the Butcher's in Sandy with a load of cattle...He had sorted them on Monday, brought them home, was kind enough to haul 5 head of cattle for another local grower...who brought them to our house and added them to our little pen area.  And, when we went to Bed Monday night everyone was settled in chewing their cud....

And, since I know it's not exactly easy backing up your horse trailer to the gate in the dark, and because my three late blooming Mama's were loose in the pasture...I thought the least I could do was put on my clothes and go do gate duty, backing-up motions, and help my Mr. get the cattle loaded!

As he gets his truck started and turned around I head to the gate, scanning my eyes over to the pen...at this point I must say EMPTY PEN!  NO Cows in it at all....the gates all appear to be closed...but, through the darkness my eyes can see shadows black bodies in the pasture..and all my Mama's laying in another spot.  YEP...the cattle was all out in the pasture with my Mama's...UGHHHHHHHH!  Now, I should point out that this is NOT the first time we have tried to wrangle up our cows in the dark....maybe I should be thankful for experience in that area  :D   I head back to the gate as Pat is about to pull through, waving him to stop..."THE COWS ARE OUT"....
"WHAT"??
"THE COWS AREN"T IN THE PEN"
Next came a few unhappy words, a truck turned off, and both of us headed to see how they could of escaped.....Well, it appears that they pushed through the panel by the water trough, just enough for them all...fat & sassy as they were to head out to freedom.  So, we had to spend a few minutes remodeling the pen...opening a huge gateway and some nice alfalfa to entice them back to the pen....surprisingly....we mostly just had to stand back and walk them forward....the good news...the bad...the Mama cows waddled over & followed too!

So, NOW...we had to try to sort out the Mama's..(the good news is there is a huge pole light right over the pen area/squeeze chute/workin' area!)  But, somehow cows just don't like being moved around in the dark....and they really like staying in a bunch....and one of my Mama's ...well, she's just plain high-headed and in tight spots always looks to escape.  So with some pushing a moving, came another panel getting knocked over...& two escaping...(guess who was on fence watching duty...OOPS....I could see it coming, but somehow didn't want to stand as a gate as the panel came toppling over.    So, it's back to chasing the two cows back in...& a panel that would never BE ABLE to be MOVED by anything!  

My Mr. thankfully, is good at sorting and getting the cattle where they need to be...so it worked out that we were finally able to sort the Mama's into the crowd alley...get the other's loaded...and be done by 5 am...just when my alarm usually goes off  :)

That was Part 1 of my Tuesday....

I had a pretty good day at work...My Mr. made it to his destination safe & sound....the day had seemed to get better as it went on...UNTIL...

I pulled into our driveway and noticed our shop door open wide...You know I'm very OCD...and I knew I had locked it before I left that morning....(because I had let one of my sweet kitties inside out of the wind...okay, maybe that was three kitties  :D).   Something, just didn't feel right to me...and usually I'm greeted by a couple kitties and none were in sight....I ran in the house to change into my farming clothes...and my Mr. called to check in....I told him I was headed out to see what was going on with the shop door being open....I headed straight there and cautiously my kitties appeared...one step inside the shop and I knew I hadn't left the door open.  SOMEONE had been in there...and someone had taken my Mr.'s Mitre Saw and Chain Saw..and that appeared to be it...after finishing my chores, I tried to call my Mr. to make sure he just hadn't loaned them out and I didn't know it....no answer or course  :)  So, I got the key to the freezer room part of our shop...and as I walked toward those doors, I noticed the screen was off the window, and a big brick was moved under it....YEP...someone had definitely broken in....I searched some more, and it still seems that they only took the two things, plus my cordless drill.???? SO thankful, because there is SO MUCH in there they could of taken..even beef??? 

I called the sheriff's office and someone came out...and took photos and said there has been a lot of break-ins happening...that they may come back.  UGHHHHH!!!

SO that was part 2 of  my Tuesday... A day like THAT!  The one that thankfully doesn't happen very often...the one that was very LONG, and the one I was happy to say Good night too!  !

God is so good though...he has surrounded me with great neighbors, it all happened when I wasn't home..and it wasn't my HOME they entered, and much prayer and warm thoughts were sent my way through facebook...and on a night when I should of been wary, scared, anxious to be home alone...I was able to sleep.  The most amazing part...as I was praying for HIS Peace and Protection to surround me last night...I woke up a couple times with the words from a song playing in my head...a Christian song about
God's protection & love...TOTALLY A GOD THING!!! 

So happy to see Wednesday come...and it was a GOOD Day!   Hoping everyone is having a GOOD day too...Sweet blessings!