Cowpost

Since our last update with the Morning Moos we have heard from many of you and have been encourgaged by your concern and prayers.  Webb Basin Dairy is taking the "Bull by the Horns" and man handling the situation.  Today is sell day again and both trailers are on the move hauling cows to market to be sold for want of a few too many somatic cells in their milk.  It's confirmed that over 600 cows are infected and will have to be eliminated before the end of the year.  A slow but deliberate process of weeding out the infection but..inspite of everything, we are doing well.  There is cause for alarm but not cause for panic.  The worst that could happen as Gordon put it, "We could go broke." But I highly doubt that will happen. We have many eggs in our basket; sugar beets, hay, grain, corn, upcoming calves and heifers, and a healthy debt to asset ratio.  Gordon stresses the night before sell and has had some pretty crazy nightmares. This is going to put us back a ways but I have confidence we'll make it OK. 

 

On the happy horizon of our lives, Boston made the golf team...by default.  Several dropped out before try-outs were over and he was persistent enough to hang in there.  Yesterday was the first day on the course.  He loved the singing birds and slow moving river along the course.  But most of his hits were to the right and his walking took more of a zig-zag pattern than a straight line like his team mates.  The golf coach finally told him to take a "circle ten." He turned to his teammate to ask the definition.  It meant just walk along and watch, don't hit the ball for a while. 

 

Stuart and Larsen just came in black, sooty and tired from working on one of the WORST jobs on the farm. Cleaning out the silo. Don and Dan have already worked it and that is why they finished their education and are moving on. Cleaning out the burned silo that was plugged up with burned hay has got to be one of the worst jobs ever (next to welding in a mink tank in the middle of the hot summer). It's pitch black, little if any fresh air and work moves tediously slow.  Maybe when Don comes over tomorrow he can help (just kidding, please just come). 

 

Kendrick and Megan got an iphone.  We got to see them at their home on video chat.  It was fun.  I love video chat.  I think it's one of the seven wonders of the world and a mother and grandmother's best friend.

 

Larsen continues to work on "The Dog House" as the community calls it.  He hopes to open his windows on April first.  Meanwhile there's a lot of Mole sauce, sweet and hot sauce and hotdogs being cooked up around here. 

 

Anna finished a bench she's been working on.  She bought a stair step top and added two legs painting them black.  It's taken a while to figure out how to make it stable but she's got a mathmeticians brain and is figuring it out.    

 

Congratulations to Megan and her fiancee for getting engaged.