s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

An antidote to an annoying workday ? Grab a friend and go sing pirate songs in the sun in Civic Square.

Yesterday about 2PM I went up the back hill to check if we still had all 7 of Steve’s cows. After poking around the bushes a bit I found 6 of them, then I spotted #7 two paddocks away on the neighbors property. By 5PM two more cows had gone across the join her. The neighbor (Richard) and I wrangled two of the three back through the fence, wich is completely falling apart down by the stream, and moved the six on our-side up into our gallop paddock. (Looks like we won’t be able to put animals onto the back hill until the boundry fence gets repaired or replaced.) The last one followed on her own about 20 minutes later, in a desperate bid to catch up with th herd. At least the cows can eat the plethora of grass in Gallop for the next week or two, and if I have not had time to get the the fence in the back repaired we can just send them back to Steve. Hopefully he will have some grass by then. Really he just needs to send the cows off to the works so that he can bring his stocking rate dwn to a more sane level.

The whole process of trying to move the cows from one paddock to another confirmed for me how little I like cows. Except maybe on the BBQ. Mmmmmmm, beef.