The Calf-napping Saga

The Calf-napping Saga

Jonas and me really got ourselves in a mess the other night. It is sad that FOR ONCE to capture all this I did NOT have a camera. So, you will have to use your God-given imagination.

It is HAY season here in May so Jonas and his Dad and Mayor Jimmy have been out and about baling hay and Jonas has been bushhogging as well. So, after dinner we were SUPPOSED to go for a relaxing ride through the pasture to return the tractor to the shed and give Daddy a ride back home on the golf cart. I loaded up the kids (and Jeb's new sperm whale--Jeb collects Shleich animal toys), had the 2 dogs, and we were off. About halfway there our donkey (who apparently has strong mothering instincts that we DO indeed need to get fulfilled--funny that was in one of my lasts blogs)...had STOLEN and taken as her own a brand new (with umbilical cord attached) calf. So, Jonas jumps off and chases donkey and calf all over and finally tackles the calf and gets it. I whip the golf cart around almost dumping all my cargo and Jonas and the calf get on the back. The donkey chases us for a while and then we go from cow to cow looking for someone to take interest in the baby. THEN, the baby runs through the barbed wire to the horses and the chase ensues again. Now it is RAINING...I still have 2 dogs, a cart full of poop, 2 kids and a sperm whale that Jeb is worried to death is going to fall out of the cubby I threw it in (I am driving like mad.)



While Jonas does some more chasing, I, in my flip flops (more poop everywhere) and in the rain get the donkey to come to the fence and I put her in with the horses. So, then we get the calf again and just stay in one place for a while...arguing about what to do--take the calf in and bottle feed it or turn in loose, and hope for the best?? Dark was coming and so was the rain. So, then we rode some more hoping some mother would come since the calf was barely mooing by now...finally, a mother with a bag almost touching the ground came up...she was READY to unload some milk--if you have nursed...imagine your milk coming in and not being able to get rid of it for an entire DAY! So, the Diego Rescue was complete. Jeb and I were thrilled to play Dora and Diego for the day and Caleb is just stunned silent from the excitement of the EZ GO golf cart whipping it around the pasture and folks he WAS IN A CARSEAT--so what that it is bungeed and roped in there...it holds...we tested it tonight and it works like a charm. So, in closing the pioneer woman can have her fancy horses and her Marlboro man...I'll keep my EZ Go Golf Cart(it holds 2 kids and a sperm whale and my man with a calf on the back)--I am just "The Redneck Woman".



The pictures I did add are just randoms.
Jeb took those 2 of me and Jonas in our cowboy hats one afternoon! Too funny. I have been on Jonas for YEARS to get his perfect ears covered up.

The tree is the beautiful site from my treadmill.