New Baby

Jacob is no longer the newest member of the family.......
He is...........

Here is the story........

Yesterday, Tony went to Lubbock to play golf in the company golf tournament. I usually go with him each year, but this year I didn't get to go because I was still recovering from my procedure and I knew I couldn't ride to Lubbock and back so soon.

Anyway, he got home around 8. He wanted me to go with him to Wal-mart to get dog food and then to the farm and feed all of the dumb bird dogs, cows, goat and a horse. So he fed all of the animals and noticed that one cow was missing. He knew that she was going to have a baby so he figured she was hiding somewhere. So we started looking and she wasn't in the farm, but outside of the gate and down the dirt road a little bit. As we drove up on her, we noticed that she had a baby calf. He was just born because she was still getting the stuff off of him.

We are in the Expedition because Tony's pickup was acting up...... we had to get them back in the fence, so we go back to the barn, get some old sacks and go back to get the cow and her baby. Tony had to pick up the calf, and put him in the back of my Expedition......yuk!!......and he sat with her with the back open and tried to get the cow to follow us. Well...she got ahead of us, so he got in the driver's seat and was herding this cow back in the pen, while this baby calf was just sitting in the back of the car.......he was driving all over the road trying to keep her from running off. After a while he finally got her to go in the pen and then he carried the baby in there with her.

We he had to fix the fence so no other cows would get out, so he put a big piece of fence on the hitch of my car and I had to drag it back to the front gate so that he could fix it.....talk about redneck!!......It was 10:30 at night by this time, but he got it fixed enough so that they couldn't get back out.

He had on his good golf clothes because he was planning on only feeding the dogs, but as usual, it didn't work out that way. So those clothes are ruined....

All turned out well...the cow finally let the calf eat and she's very protective of him. We just got back from the farm to check on him and Erick was going to get in the pen to see him and the mother cow started after him....just like any mother would do if she thought someone was going to harm her baby.

Well....now I'm off to clean out the Expedition!!