The Front Porch Swing

[Triple Willow]

@tomtommom... nice shelters. I like the "hillside" design and I agree - the biggest one. That price is not bad at all to possibly save your family's life and give you peace of mind even if you never needed it.

 

[Triple Willow]

Yeah, I just wish a religious zealot hadn't been used as a tool to prove to me that I was fortunate and morally strong. That kinda makes holy messages a little harder to read.

I hope you don't let that one man represent all of Christianity to you. Just because I drive a Dodge doesn't mean that I am the supreme person to represent the whole Dodge company to anybody.

 

[LindaB220]

I hope you don't let that one man represent all of Christianity to you. Just because I drive a Dodge doesn't mean that I am the supreme person to represent the whole Dodge company to anybody.

Very good point. Christianity means different things to different people. Theirs seem to be more cultish than normal everyday people that love God. Glad you're safe.

 

[Triple Willow]

@rrrmamma... good idea to keep them on lockdown for a little while. Just try not to excite them tomorrow. Just be slow and quiet around them and have them some hay/feed in place. Keep in mind that a simple thing like a feed sack could possibly freak them out. They will calm down soon. Keep in mind cattle can jump. You wouldn't think they could get that far off the ground but they can. lol I know of one case where a cow cleared the hood of a full sized truck. LOL

 

[Windy Bay Farm]

Evening ya'll Hope ya'll had a wonderful
weekend Thought I would drop by the porch and say hello and God Bless to everyone !

Found this on a FB group I'm a member of ... Hilarious

 

[OHhappychicks]

Bruce, I normally let him do his thing but I have two cows being delivered tomorrow morning early and they have to have a place to go. This project has now been in the works for 2 weeks. We purchased the cows a month ago. I have been out every day helping pound stakes and string wire. He is out there now at 8 pm hooking up the electric wire. He still needs to use the tractor to level the mud and ruts caused when they delivered the run in shed for the Heifers last week.The stock trailer will get stuck trying to get into the pasture if we don't fill it in. Since I cannot drive either tractor yet It is a job he has to do. It is getting dark. In his defense, he has a form of ADD that runs in his family. His dad and his brother were the same way. I am just panicking tonight because there is no more time to tweak this project. I hope we can keep them in the run-in shed and the small paddock until they get used to being here. It will give us a little more time to correct any weaknesses in the perimeter electric fence.
We have been told they have a tendency to bolt when moved to an unfamiliar place.
Wish me luck everybody I have never had cattle before. These girls are supposed to be docile, like to be brushed and are not as large as some breeds. They both come from championship lines. I am going to try to learn how to show them. I would like to enter the older heifer in the National Western Stock Show in Denver next year. Her mother placed first there a few years ago. They are still a lot bigger than me and can be difficult until they get to know you. They are Scottish Highlanders. They are fairly small in stature, very shaggy and hardy, with long sweeping horns on the girls and more upright horns on the boys . It is a breed my husband has wanted for some time.

OOHH! I have wanted to get some scottish highlanders! We had a friend who had a bull he wanted to breed with his black angus (I think). I've researched them and love them. Another breed I love is the, Oh! just had a brain freeze and can't think of the name

, they look like oreo cookies, black with white band around middle. It might come to me in the middle of the night!!

Hope everything goes well tomorrow.

 

[OHhappychicks]

Evening ya'll

Hope ya'll had a wonderful
weekend

Thought I would drop by the porch and say hello and God Bless to everyone !

Found this on a FB group I'm a member of ... Hilarious

How adorable!!

 

[LBejaran]

I hope you don't let that one man represent all of Christianity to you. Just because I drive a Dodge doesn't mean that I am the supreme person to represent the whole Dodge company to anybody.

Oh no, it doesn't and I don't. I just meant that the perception is that all Christians are good people who you can trust. Obviously that is a blanket statement, and I know it's not true. This experience just solidified it. You can't trust any person who comes out and sells you the Christian card.

However, I know plenty of wonderful Christian people who are normal and not at all manipulative. So no, I'm not going to be jaded by this bad experience. I have faith that there are still decent people in this world. These people might be good people, too. They just don't mesh with my ideal "good person".

 

[lindz8504]

Quote:
Belted Galloways

 

[Blooie]

I had a friend out here who raised cattle called Romagnolas.... they were simply gorgeous. Unfortunately we lost Chuck to a heart attack a few years ago, but the legacy lives on - his son Charlie kept a few around just so the fields around his place (next door to his mom and dad's) would still have that bright spot to see in the mornings.