Pats (aka the Devil Calf) returns

On Saturday 15 Mar 14 Heather and I were attending to the afternoon milking/watering/feeding when Heather spied our neighbour driving his front end loader across his paddock.  We both gave a wave but our neighbour didn’t respond.

Then H spied that the neighbour had something in the bucket of the tractor – our conversation went something like this:

H – what’s that in the bucket? Is that a cow?

B- looks like it – might be the devil calf (laugh)

Where has the First Part of the Year Gone?

Here we are in autumn – the first sixth of the year but a distant memory – where has the year gone so far.  Since my last jottings we have sold Dobbs and Duffy at the Woodford sales.  We tripled our money on them in the three months we owned them so in that respect it has been good.  We have also decided to only milk Daphne and Beaudette in the mornings, leaving the calves with them during the day and separating all bodies at night.  This seem...