Comments on: The Cows Are OUT!!!! http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/11/13/the-cows-are-out/ Your online simplicity village Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:07:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: suesteiner http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/11/13/the-cows-are-out/comment-page-1/#comment-192 suesteiner Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:38:21 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/11/13/the-cows-are-out/#comment-192 Oh what a great story, Diane! Joe was a good samartian who came equipped with his own tools! How do the animals know though to do this kind of stuff when we are either sick, away or its raining cats and dogs? They just don't get out when its nice or convenient! Oh what a great story, Diane! Joe was a good samartian who came equipped with his own tools!

How do the animals know though to do this kind of stuff when we are either sick, away or its raining cats and dogs? They just don’t get out when its nice or convenient!

]]> By: Diane McIntyre http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/11/13/the-cows-are-out/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Diane McIntyre Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:54:52 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/11/13/the-cows-are-out/#comment-191 Love it! Although it wasn't cows. Sunday morning, DH and DD at church, me at home with really bad flu - early spring. Cows might have been better but our sheep - 7 ewes and 16 lambs decided to take a stroll down the road above our property. I was awakened by a stranger who had driven down wanting to know if the "black and white sheep in the road were ours". Clad in pjs, he drove me up to the road and, with the help of six strangers, got the sheep with their lambs back behind the pasture fence. After finding where they got out, this stranger (named Joe) went back to his pick-up, got out a hammer, small bucket of nails, some barbed wire, and work gloves. He was just finishing up making repairs when my DH and DD, coming home from church, turned down our road. DH shook his hand with a "mighty nice of you to stop". We never saw Joe or his pick-up again despite living in a "small" town (around 32K). If someone asks me if there are angels, I can honestly say, "Yes, and his name was Joe." Love it! Although it wasn’t cows. Sunday morning, DH and DD at church, me at home with really bad flu – early spring. Cows might have been better but our sheep – 7 ewes and 16 lambs decided to take a stroll down the road above our property. I was awakened by a stranger who had driven down wanting to know if the “black and white sheep in the road were ours”. Clad in pjs, he drove me up to the road and, with the help of six strangers, got the sheep with their lambs back behind the pasture fence. After finding where they got out, this stranger (named Joe) went back to his pick-up, got out a hammer, small bucket of nails, some barbed wire, and work gloves. He was just finishing up making repairs when my DH and DD, coming home from church, turned down our road. DH shook his hand with a “mighty nice of you to stop”. We never saw Joe or his pick-up again despite living in a “small” town (around 32K). If someone asks me if there are angels, I can honestly say, “Yes, and his name was Joe.”

]]> By: suesteiner http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/11/13/the-cows-are-out/comment-page-1/#comment-184 suesteiner Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:07:16 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/11/13/the-cows-are-out/#comment-184 LOL! Glad everyone returned safe and sound. Fortunatley I did not ever have neighbor problems-- usually fence or someone left a gate open. Not ME, of course! No one ever admits to being the one who left a gate open. We did have a feral cow though who lived in our back woods. He came from the farm down the road and it took months for the neighbor to get him back-- the longer he lived back there the wilder he got! We would have cow sightings-- shadowy black glimpses kind of like the loch ness monster! LOL! Glad everyone returned safe and sound. Fortunatley I did not ever have neighbor problems– usually fence or someone left a gate open. Not ME, of course! No one ever admits to being the one who left a gate open.

We did have a feral cow though who lived in our back woods. He came from the farm down the road and it took months for the neighbor to get him back– the longer he lived back there the wilder he got! We would have cow sightings– shadowy black glimpses kind of like the loch ness monster!

]]> By: shopper http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/11/13/the-cows-are-out/comment-page-1/#comment-179 shopper Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:25:49 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/11/13/the-cows-are-out/#comment-179 How many times we have all faced the fog of uncertainty and the chill of excitement as we gather up the animals from where they have wandered. And I hope for those times that it is the animals who have made this decision to vacate the premises. But here in the wild, wild West....Virginia, my cow chases are usually the result of "neighborly intervention". Yes, folks, cattle rustling is alive and well. My cows have been hustled away through the hills so many times, they seem to show relief and total subordination by the time we find them and take them back. You'd think they were teenagers being dragged (but really rescued) from some folly of theirs. When we get them home, we check for damages and put them to bed. And we never make them talk anything until they're ready. Moo-o-re later. How many times we have all faced the fog of uncertainty and the chill of excitement as we gather up the animals from where they have wandered. And I hope for those times that it is the animals who have made this decision to vacate the premises.
But here in the wild, wild West….Virginia, my cow chases are usually the result of “neighborly intervention”. Yes, folks, cattle rustling is alive and well. My cows have been hustled away through the hills so many times, they seem to show relief and total subordination by the time we find them and take them back. You’d think they were teenagers being dragged (but really rescued) from some folly of theirs.
When we get them home, we check for damages and put them to bed. And we never make them talk anything until they’re ready. Moo-o-re later.

]]> By: suesteiner http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/11/13/the-cows-are-out/comment-page-1/#comment-168 suesteiner Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:04:08 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/11/13/the-cows-are-out/#comment-168 LOL!! Oh yes. Been there done that Pat! We went on a rare family vacation with only part of our family because someone had to stay home with the animals. As we drove down our long lane we started seeing tell tale signs of a large animal invasion on our front lawn. Our young adult, and very capable son had just spent the better part of the morning, after working all night (how do the cows know this???) rounding up cows from the front lawn. Maybe we should of invested sooner in better fences?? :) Although I could tell you stories of helping my husband with fencing while 8 months pregnant with toddlers and some wild eyes horses but I'll save that for another Tales From the Farm stories! LOL!! Oh yes. Been there done that Pat! We went on a rare family vacation with only part of our family because someone had to stay home with the animals. As we drove down our long lane we started seeing tell tale signs of a large animal invasion on our front lawn. Our young adult, and very capable son had just spent the better part of the morning, after working all night (how do the cows know this???) rounding up cows from the front lawn. Maybe we should of invested sooner in better fences?? :) Although I could tell you stories of helping my husband with fencing while 8 months pregnant with toddlers and some wild eyes horses but I’ll save that for another Tales From the Farm stories!

]]> By: Pat Veretto http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/11/13/the-cows-are-out/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Pat Veretto Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:36:07 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/11/13/the-cows-are-out/#comment-166 Sue, if there weren't a few more victories than defeat, there wouldn't be many farmers, but "victory" is sometimes in the eye of the beholder! :) We never had more than one milk cow, but we rented a large corral to a dairy that kept its dry cows in it One time I remember so well... it had been a wet spring and the ground was saturated. One morning I woke up to the sound of "thump! slurrrrppp... thump!" I could literally feel my heart sink when I went to the window to see a small herd of Holsteins a foot deep in muck that was our lawn just the night before. Sue, if there weren’t a few more victories than defeat, there wouldn’t be many farmers, but “victory” is sometimes in the eye of the beholder! :)

We never had more than one milk cow, but we rented a large corral to a dairy that kept its dry cows in it One time I remember so well… it had been a wet spring and the ground was saturated. One morning I woke up to the sound of “thump! slurrrrppp… thump!”

I could literally feel my heart sink when I went to the window to see a small herd of Holsteins a foot deep in muck that was our lawn just the night before.

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