Stories In Black And White

 Would you believe no pictures today.  The two best things I saw yesterday I had no camera with me. 

First,  Joe wanted me to help him sort the first calf heifers out of the fall calving cows and move them closer to the pens in case they have any trouble.  Then he wanted to move the rest of the cows to a field away from the creek.  There is a big chance things can go wrong with cows calving near the creek and the calves falling in.  The sorting all went great.  Then when we were moving the cows, Joe came up one short in his count.  After he thought about it, he said there was one cow he had not seen.  That was one out of 73 animals he had not noticed.  I asked what it looked like and he described a black/white face where half the face was black and half white. We drove along the creek and found her.  She had just calved right next to the creek but thankfully the calf had not fallen in.  Looks like fall calving has started 10 days early.

Next, while feeding the dogs in the evening, I almost stepped on a young skunk.  It was the size of a fluffy softball.  It was just digging around in the grass and could not have cared less that I almost stepped on it.  It was very cute but I was not about to find out if it was old enough to spray.  I haven’t noticed the dogs smelling like skunk.  Maybe they will continue to stay away.

So there you go, two stories in black and white.