November 11, 2006

ay was the subject of the day. We went to get 10 round bales from the man at the ranch who we get our hay from each year. It is nice as he keeps our hay for us and we go pick up ten bales at a time as we need them. So with alot of snow on the ground, we were hauling about 7,000 pounds of hay. The ranch is quite some distance from here. I was glad my boyfriend was driving. It was a bit slippery in places.

The rancher was working on some heated calving pens as we got there. He bred his cows to calve in January of this coming year. I do not remember his reasoning for it, but he did say it worked for him quite well last year.

This reminds me..

My ex-boss at the veterinary clinic used to call on the cell phone and ask bizarre veterinary questions and since it was the cell, it was hard to understand the voice.

One day, just knowing it had to be my boss, after this man on the phone asked if we had any of the knitted Ear Muffs for calves, I teasingly said back to him, "No, we do not carry any, but I can knit your calves some!"... thinking "Ah HA! I got my boss this time"..

..after having this flippant conversation with this man for a few minutes, I suddenly clued in and said "Ummm.. this is not my boss is it?".. and perplexed the man said "Um.. NO!". Quite horrified and red-faced, I asked whom I was talking to and explained my boss usually teases me over the phone and asking such things. Then I inquired if they really made such a thing as Ear Muffs for calves. The man patiently explained to me, that due to the cold weather when the calves were born that they needed the ear muffs to keep their ears from getting frostbite. Wow!!.. coming from Oregon, we apparently do not use them down there, but it is a necessity up here. Thanking the man, I told him I would look into where I could get 100 of them ordered in for him, thanking the stars that I did not have to knit that many *S*.