Fridays Fences #60

As promised, the fence fixing story.  As family was leaving after a wonderful visit Saturday night, we heard a pack of coon hounds barking in the distance.  The only problem was, it wasn't distant enough.  They were on our farm without permission.  The next morning there were a bunch of yearling cattle in front of the house where they shouldn't have been.  

All of the commotion of the dogs and hunters spooked the cattle and they ran through the fence breaking the bottom wire.  

High tensile electric is not the easiest wire to work with.  It was a good thing Emma was there to help.  She can work on fence with her eyes closed.  

After splicing and reattaching, J then had to tighten the wire.  

Take my word for it, there are 2 strands of electric wire there.  

Now, back where you belong.
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Celebration

Happy Birthday L  We enjoyed your visit.

Christmas Goose or Goat

Sissy is still a bother to J.  She gets into the feed of everything else at the barn and goes pretty much anywhere she wants. 

She made it past Thanksgiving but she's getting rather plump.  

Goat for Christmas doesn't sound bad does it?  

On a totally different subject.  Happy Birthday A.

Spying

J and I worked on some fence this afternoon but that sound like a story that I need to save for Fridays Fences.  Anyway,  I was admiring the view from the top of the hill we were working on and of course started taking pictures. 

I love the silhouettes the oak trees make.  You can also just make out our closest neighbor to the east.  

Maybe you can see it better with a little zoom.  

Wow, probably 2 miles away and I feel like I'm almost in their yard.  You could never do this with a Kodak Instamatic. (And I didn't even add in the computer zoom).   My how times have changed.  I wonder who's spying on me.

Fridays Fences #59

You had to know that having worked cattle earlier in the week that Fridays Fences would feature more on this topic.  

The cow through a fence waiting on their calves. 

These cattle pens were new before J and I were married.

They are getting higher on the list of things to do.
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Run Turkeys Run

Happy Thanksgiving.  I saw these turkeys while going down the driveway the other day.  

I guess they knew Thanksgiving was coming and they were out of here.
V has been wanting to go hunting, E wants to spice up Thanksgiving, and J wants Sissy (the bottle goat) gone.

My suggestion was for V to shot Sissy, E could cook her and J would have his wish.
Don't worry, it didn't happen.
On a different note, I've know for some time that it was just a matter of time, before I would run out of space for pictures on my Picasa account to which this blog is linked.  I ran out yesterday.   I recently found another photo storage site, Photobucket, and this is my first post linking to an account there.
Looks like it might work for me.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Fence Line Contact

It's been a month since we brought Brother home.  So, we thought it time to let him have some fence line contact with the other horses.  

 Lots of smelling first.

 Then looking.

 Then running.

 More looking,

 more smelling with some added squeals, 

 more running,

then settled down to eat.  The next day was fine, just standing near the fence making nice.  The next step will be the scary one.  Do you put in the most dominant horse with Brother or the least?  With Otoelene we had Lady who was on the bottom of the pecking order which worked fine.  J thinks we should put in Jessica first and just get the worst over with.  I see pros and cons with either scenario.