I'm Back

I have not been posting much lately because my computer broke and then it broke worse and did not work at all and then I was using a random assortment of old borrowed slow computers.  I am back in the game now though with a computer that runs at a decent speed and does not freeze or poop out on me whenever it feels like it. 

On that note it has been uncomfortably humid lately and my hope is that the weather gets a little more comfortable soon because I want to go outside for more then 10 minutes and not be sweating profusely.  I want to go outside and visit all the animals and it be enjoyable.

I want to go see all the babies

I want to visit the friendly cow (which is not common on a decently sized dairy farm.  We are by no means huge but the 450 cows that are milked each day are not necessarily interested in letting you come up and pet them, but 126 will be your friend)

I would also like to ask this cow if she is sure she can possibly get herself into the bed of this truck, because she is certainly thinking about it

....but all of these things would not be as enjoyable because it is so incredibly hot

Cow In the Road

Something you deal with on a regular basis on a dairy farm is cows (yes I know obvious), but I don't mean cows in general.  I mean the kind of cows that are places you do not always expect to find them.  A few weeks ago for instance a few cows were blocking traffic on the main road.  This cow was simply on our road so it was not blocking anything but my passage and I was not in any hurry and I had my camera in the car.  This nice girl was also polite enough to vacate the road when I pulled up a little.  See the cows behind her, that is where she should be.  I think they are wondering how she did it.  That's the thing too, the ones who get out usually will get out again and again.  Once they know how that's it.

Sometimes they are in my yard, sometimes there is one and sometimes there are several and sometimes there are more then several.

We do though have an alarm of sorts that lets us know if any of the cows are out and happen to be in our general vicinity.

Slide will bark if there is a cow out in the yard at night.  Which is nice until I go to peek out the window and one of the said cows is looking back in at me.  Then I have to go change my underpants before I can go motivate the cows back in the direction of where it belongs and hope that someone up by the barns will put them back where they belong, which they typically do.