Some days, you never know what you are going to wake up to.
The other morning, the cows came home… but we don’t have any cows.
So, some mornings I sleep in a little. It’s nice and I enjoy it. After spending so much of my life waking up between 2 and 6 am, a little extra sleep on days I can afford it is great. If our @little-peppers beat me up (that’s wake up first not physically abuse me) they will frequently get the chores started.
When they went out to check on the animals, they found some extra animals. A few large cows were in the yard, eating grass and dropping cowpies.
Judging from the large cowpie right in the middle of my “garden” at least one took a stroll in there too. Thankfully my garden is haphazard enough this year that they apparently didn’t touch much. With this news to share the @little-peppers came running right back in the house to let us know that there were cows in the yard.
This has happened before, and was not exactly a strange event for us. Perhaps if a few large bovine were standing in your yard when you woke up it may be a bigger deal, but maybe not. I went out and checked on them, and we let the neighbors know. Soon, we rounded them up and put them back in the fence. The whole ordeal only lasted a few minutes, and other than stepping in a cowpie, nothing bad really happened.
THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE
The situation does remind me of some advice that homesteaders often give. The advice is to invest in some good fencing. If you put up some fencing that will actually keep your animals in, you will be able to avoid wasting a lot of time chasing stray animals around the area.
Both @bluerthangreen and @papa-pepper are planning on making sure that our fences are in order. We both plan on fencing in our entire properties and then having specific places for specific animals inside of that perimeter fence. If they get out of "their area" then they will still be fenced in on our property. Not only will that save the neighbors some trouble, but we will spend a lot less time tracking them down. One step at a time.
I'm heading back down to the land in a minute to work on clearing stumps some more so I can get in some road base and my shipping container soon, but I'll check back later to reply to more comments. Thanks everyone!
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-cows
Until next time…
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