This all happened before 6:30 a.m. today.
Bill had his breakfast, fixed a lunch and headed for the St. Joe River---with his fishing gear, of course.
A Ma, Pa and Bambi played "catch-me-if-you-can" in the front pasture.
My three horses watched intently maintaining a good social distance from their barnyard fence with no masks on.
Bambi would race off, while Ma and Pa tried to keep up.
A few minutes later, two of my horses played "catch-me-if-you-can" in the field along the lane, still with no masks on.
This is the time of the year when Lily, the head horse, decides to play keep away when it's time to take her to pasture.
Usually, she stands No. 1 at the gate. This morning as I was about to throw the rope over her neck, she took off across the barnyard.
She'll probably be doing the same for several days.
Anyway, she caught me by surprise, so when I walked into the barnyard to catch her, I forgot to close the gate.
Lefty and CB walked out.
That confused Lily. I caught her and took her to pasture, thinking the other two would follow.
Forget that. Finally, out came the grain, and CB fell for it.
He went to pasture and Lefty lagged behind, but Lefty doesn't like being alone.
So, he actually walked up to me, and we went on down the lane to the pasture.
All that action, and, by golly, there was more on my way back toward the house.
Turkeys from who knows where were escaping IN to the barnyard.
No need to round them up, so I just took a few pictures and walked on to get the paper.
Twas 6:33 when I arrived back at the house, wondering if the day started like that, what's in store?
That's how it is on a farm. Totally unscripted a lot of the time. Things just happen and we deal with them.
Yesterday was a bit less dramatic. I did work CB in the round pen, and, later, Annie and I went for a ride on Lily and Lefty.
Lefty had a bug in his craw for some reason and was not exactly a "pleasure" to ride, but I stayed on, and he at least worked up a sweat while I worked up some sore knees.
Annie had a good time on Lily as you can see from the photos.
In other news, I was disappointed yesterday to see that my pumpkin plants were bitten by frost. Happily, it looks like a partial impact, and the plant may just still supply nutrients to the 14 pumpkins I counted.
Halloween should be colorful around here.
My second round of beans got bitten too, and, again, I'm holding out hope that the warm weather ahead will help them rebound.
Also, it would be really nice if we could sample some ears of homegrown corn this year. It's 2020, and by this time of this strange year, we've learned to expect the unexpected or not.
Another warm-up comes today, and we're supposed head back toward the 90s by week's end.
Guess that's enough reporting for now. Enough excitement; now a little normal stuff for the rest of the day would be nice.
If it stays quiet, I may just go out and listen or talk to trees and see if they're having any conversations or other fascinating thoughts, as noted in article in the link below.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/never-underestimate-the-intelligence-of-trees?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Stay tuned. Happy Wednesday.
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