...getting to play/work with my family

What a Halloween. There was nothing scary about it. It has been quite a while since we have not had much happening on a Saturday morning. Pop needed his cows worked since he had 23 calves on the ground. So I decided Friday night that we could get that done for him. Papa was coming to Bryan anyway and MLN didn't have to be anywhere so I would have some good help.



We penned the cows with no problem. We separated the calves and were ready to work them. Our plan was to take the calves to Uncle Bobby's place and use the squeeze chute to make it easy on all of us. Some of the calve were small so we just started with the new babies so we wouldn't have to haul them. We kept going until the calves started getting bigger and bigger.



MLN got in on throwing a couple and she did well. Papa and I decided that when were half way through that we would take them on the the squeeze chute. We aren't as young as we used to be. And the kids aren't quite old enough to get in there and throw the calves by themselves. Needless to say it was much easier down at the pens.



Before we were finished with the cows WD had to go play his soccer game. They play in an U-10 age group which is an age group older than when they are supposed to. They have a really good team and each boy works to be good. They smoked this 10 year old team 4-1.

I went to work some neighbors cows while MLN played her soccer game. But after I finished and after MLN got back, she and I went to catch up with the others to go on the trick or treating hay ride. We had a great time and the families were great to spend time with. Jess and Mal worked hard all day. Jess kept our ear tag gun filled and Mal kept the shots full. This is critical when working calves whether you are throwing calves old school style or whether you are working them in the chute.

I love my kids friends. WD and Luke are best buddies. From playing Marines, to working cows, building fence, playing sports, feeding animals, riding horses and even killing snakes. These two are fun to watch. They are thinkers and they will make things happen (in a good way). Luke is always willing to learn and jump in to what we are doing. EXCEPT, yesterday. He drew the line. I started castrating the first calf. Luke had never seen that process. When I made the cut, he looked at WD and said, "Oh, Will, I don't think I can do this!" He went to work the gate after that.