On my brother-in-laws ranch! Taz is 10 yrs old!
Harding County suffered a major brain drain on Wednesday when Jennifer Anders and I accompanied the Academic Olympic kids to McLaughlin. We stopped in Lemmon on the way home and saw Mike Gebhart at the gas station. Mike tried to hide his bandaged hand behind his back, but I got the story anyway. He found a calf that hadn’t sucked, so he ran the cow in the chute and as he was holding one of the metal bars while he worked the calf up to where the groceries were, the cow kicked, smashing one finger and leaving a long gash in another one that required several stitches.
The other night Reub and Taz headed out in the pasture to check on one of our calves that hadn’t sucked. While they were helping that one, they could hear another cow bellowing off in the distance. You know the sound...
She had just calved and shoved her new baby out into the cold water of the dam. The guys drove over to see what was going on and Grandpa stopped the pickup close to the dam. Taz jumped out of the pickup to pull the calf out of the water and the cow took immediate exception to his attempted rescue of her offspring. When the cow took after Taz, Reub jumped out to help him and the cow took him! He ran behind the pickup to get away from the mad cow and he heard Taz, standing out in the dark, knee deep in icy water, ask in a tone both curious and laconic, “Whadda you want to do now Grandpa?â€
Reub got back in the pickup, backed it as close to the calf as he could without driving in the dam, and when it was between the cow and the calf, Taz climbed out of the water into the back of the pickup where he kept the cow busy so Reub could pull the calf out of the dam. Every time the irate bovine tried to climb into the back of the pickup to eat Taz’s lunch, he’d shine the flashlight in her eyes and beat her off with a hoe he found in the pickup box. As soon as he had the calf on dry ground Reub got back in the pickup and drove away with his shivering grandson in the back, leaving the calf with a mother that had finally decided the new baby belonged to her.
Harding County suffered a major brain drain on Wednesday when Jennifer Anders and I accompanied the Academic Olympic kids to McLaughlin. We stopped in Lemmon on the way home and saw Mike Gebhart at the gas station. Mike tried to hide his bandaged hand behind his back, but I got the story anyway. He found a calf that hadn’t sucked, so he ran the cow in the chute and as he was holding one of the metal bars while he worked the calf up to where the groceries were, the cow kicked, smashing one finger and leaving a long gash in another one that required several stitches.
The other night Reub and Taz headed out in the pasture to check on one of our calves that hadn’t sucked. While they were helping that one, they could hear another cow bellowing off in the distance. You know the sound...
She had just calved and shoved her new baby out into the cold water of the dam. The guys drove over to see what was going on and Grandpa stopped the pickup close to the dam. Taz jumped out of the pickup to pull the calf out of the water and the cow took immediate exception to his attempted rescue of her offspring. When the cow took after Taz, Reub jumped out to help him and the cow took him! He ran behind the pickup to get away from the mad cow and he heard Taz, standing out in the dark, knee deep in icy water, ask in a tone both curious and laconic, “Whadda you want to do now Grandpa?â€
Reub got back in the pickup, backed it as close to the calf as he could without driving in the dam, and when it was between the cow and the calf, Taz climbed out of the water into the back of the pickup where he kept the cow busy so Reub could pull the calf out of the dam. Every time the irate bovine tried to climb into the back of the pickup to eat Taz’s lunch, he’d shine the flashlight in her eyes and beat her off with a hoe he found in the pickup box. As soon as he had the calf on dry ground Reub got back in the pickup and drove away with his shivering grandson in the back, leaving the calf with a mother that had finally decided the new baby belonged to her.