Friday, March 25, 2011

Returning from Vacation

We just got back from a very long vacation.  It was the longest vacation that I've ever had!  We had friends, neighbors and my brother lined up to do chores and we're just now finding out the "issues" that our chore help had.  We had some escapes requiring some roundups.  While we were about half way through our vacation my brother Tim texted me to tell me the calves were out in the yard.  Knowing how stressful this can be we had a sinking feeling but it wasn't long until he let us know that the calves followed him right back into the paddock without issue.  Once he put the calves back into the paddock he worked on getting the electric fence that surrounds the paddock back on.  We found out after we returned home that the calves were out several times before Tim saw them and solved the problem by fixing the electric fence!  The Boernsen's who were doing other chores had to run the calves back into the paddock several times and had some near off-farm roundups.  Our neighbor Wendel also had to do a roundup but he had to roundup chickens.  The flight pen where the chickens have access to the outdoors had a major hole that he had to find and impromptu block before getting the chickens to stay in.  While not an escape, we learned that Sara's milk goat was a "stinker" and gave some trouble going to the milking stand.  All those issues.  How many issues haven't we heard of yet?  We tried to make sure that everything was running smoothly before we left.  Good grief!  I guess I'll have another 10 years or so to get things ready for the next vacation...

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