Thoughts from the Middle of Nowhere

My Darling Wife finally managed to get some pictures of some of the babies. It's going slow with them but we are making progress, if only the weather would cooperate. Taken 02/20/2009.

Let's see, a quick update on calving. I'm tired.

Above and beyond that, it's going really slow. The heifers could have started around the 8th of February. I had the first calf on the 14th of February and they are going slow. Not quite 10 percent done yet. When they finally start opening up and calving they are going to have a bunch but I have no idea when that will be. No pictures, sorry. My camera isn't working right and I haven't replaced it. My Darling Wife has a real nice one but she hasn't come out to take any pictures yet. Says she would fall and kill herself on the ice. Since I fell this morning and knocked myself loopy, I would believe her. Damn all this ice.

Found here.



So true.

I had a very strange experience when I got up last night for one of my heifer checks. I woke up about 5 minutes before my alarm went off which isn't unusual. I very diligently shut off the alarm clock because this particular clock is very hard to turn off and My Darling Wife gets very annoyed with me if it goes off and I am not around to shut it off. I went out into the mudroom to get my boots on and noticed that the outside door was cracked open and there was snow coming in the house. I am always very careful to shut the door so i couldn't figure how the door was cracked like that and I couldn't figure where the snow was coming from. A couple of hours before when I was out the sky was clear and there was a million stars in the sky. The weather forecast also didn't have any snow in the forecast. Regardless, I knew I had to clean up the mess. Just as I started to step out in the mudroom I hear my alarm clock going off. I knew I shut it off, how was it going off. I turned to go shut it off----

And sat up straight in bed with the alarm clock going off beside me. What was going on I thought. I was in the mudroom, how was I in bed? I reached over and shut the alarm off and couldn't help thinking I just did this a few minutes ago, why am I doing it again? Wasn't there snow in the mudroom? There wasn't any in the forecast. I went to the mudroom and sure enough, no snow. I finally decided I had been dreaming and I was now up and I needed to check the heifers.

The whole time I checked the heifers I couldn't help feeling something wasn't right. Was I still asleep and dreaming? How would I know if I was dreaming or really doing this? How do we know our whole existence isn't a dream? I was so confused. No new calves but doubts about my existence.

I feel better this morning but I tell you, it was a very odd experience. Was it reality or a dream? I truly don't know.

Congress Passes Stimulus Package

My question is whether this will help or hurt our country. I personally feel it more than likely will hurt the country but we will see. It's Obama's show now and he gets to spend all the money that the Democrats will let him. How we as the taxpayers will pay for it all is beyond me.

I sure wish we weren't living in such interesting times.

I see today is that special day dedicated to the proposition that if a man makes a big enough deal over his lady on this one day of the year, he is immune from showing her any love or consideration for the rest of the year. Yes, happy valentines day.


Now if you are a human being and show your lady love every day of the year, this made up holiday means very little to you since you don't need a special day to show love, you do it all the time with your words and deeds.

I find it interesting that the stock market took such a tumble when the Obama administration released it's financial plan to save the nations bank. Just like all things Obama, it is long on rhetoric and short on details. I guess the old curse continues and we are living in interesting times.

The heifers enjoying there lunch after they got home. I told my Darling Wife that this is the first hay that I put up in 2008 that I have had to feed. So far everything I have fed was put up in 2007 or earlier. My dad always said, "Hay in the stack is better than money in the bank." I agree. Taken 02/01/2009.

Bringing the heifers home to calve. Taken 02/01/2009.