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Cal
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Joined: 14 Feb 2005
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Location: Southern SD
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One cold night my son was having trouble getting a cow that was calving into the barn. She broke a chain on a corral gate and got out into a bigger lot. He came in to tell me his troubles, and being plumb tuckered out, I suggested we both go back out in about thirty minutes.
We did, and even with two of us, the calving cow would not go into the smaller corral. I caught my good old grey horse, Tomcat, and swung onto him bareback. The cow would not cooperate. I rode to the barn, and put my saddle on, cinching it tight enough to rope the cow. I left my flashlight in the barn, so my roping arm would be free. Back into the lot we went, and the old red rip with tail outstretched headed off towards the far fence. I kicked ol' Tomcat, and threw my lariat. The loop sailed around the neck of the ringy cow, and I dallied up tight. She choked down a couple times as my horse dragged her towards the barn. We would give her some air, and Will would persuade her from the back.
Finally we had her pulled into the barn. I got off my horse, and started her into the head-catch, so we could check her out and make sure the calf was coming right. I felt she needed to be checked, as she had been calving for quite some time. Just as I shut the head-catch on her neck, she flipped her ear so I could read the tag. "Oh no!" I exclaimed, "Guess what Will, we got the wrong cow!"    
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I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who ended up getting the wrong cow in the barn, before! Ya know, if it's snowing hard especially, sometimes it just happens. 
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Cal
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Joined: 14 Feb 2005
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Location: Southern SD
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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That was a cute story, Cal. Your granddad was a character, but I believe his sisters taught him how. One time, one of his sisters (I think it was Olive) and her husband led a tour down to the Gordon Massacre site on the Niobrara. It was an eventful day, and she was very entertaining. |
I'm sure she was!
At one point, her daughter tried to put her in a nursing home. She managed to get kicked out by grabbing a nurse by the hair, twisted her head around, pulled her down, and wouldn't let her go. The poor nurse had to be "rescued", and probably lost a little hair out of the deal. I suspect it sort of went down according to my aunt's plan. I feel sorry for any caretaker that had a run in with my poor old aunt.
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DOC HARRIS
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Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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Location: Ft. Collins, CO
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Soapweed wrote: |
That was a cute story, Cal. Your granddad was a character, but I believe his sisters taught him how. One time, one of his sisters (I think it was Olive) and her husband led a tour down to the Gordon Massacre site on the Niobrara. It was an eventful day, and she was very entertaining. |
I'm sure she was!
At one point, her daughter tried to put her in a nursing home. She managed to get kicked out by grabbing a nurse by the hair, twisted her head around, pulled her down, and wouldn't let her go. The poor nurse had to be "rescued", and probably lost a little hair out of the deal. I suspect it sort of went down according to my aunt's plan. I feel sorry for any caretaker that had a run in with my poor old aunt. |
- - - -your poor old Aunt!!  Holy Smoke- she sound as if she should have a Belt Buckle as Champion Bull Dogger! Maybe she needed a switch on her nose for control!
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George
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Joined: 29 May 2005
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Location: Knightstown, Indiana
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Many years ago when we were first married ( my wife was only 18 at the time) the "feedlot" we had was very muddy. When I went to fill the feeder Debi followed me in the pick-up to help. After opening the gate and letting me in she was going to open the feeder and got her boots stuck in the "mud". I was getting off the tractor to help her when she fell face first and got a full body make over - - - I did a good job of not laughing and helping her up but she was so mad she jerked away from me and fell over backwards. By this time I could no longer contain it and just about busted a gut laughing so hard. Can you believe she really got mad that I would not let her drive my truck back to the house. I made her get in the back and I walked back for the tractor.
Now is the unbelievable part - - on the 18th of this month we will celibrate 32 years of marriage. She limits the help she gives me and I don't think she has been in the cattle lot since.
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nr
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
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Location: DE
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Many years ago when we were first married ( my wife was only 18 at the time) the "feedlot" we had was very muddy. When I went to fill the feeder Debi followed me in the pick-up to help. After opening the gate and letting me in she was going to open the feeder and got her boots stuck in the "mud". I was getting off the tractor to help her when she fell face first and got a full body make over - - - I did a good job of not laughing and helping her up but she was so mad she jerked away from me and fell over backwards. By this time I could no longer contain it and just about busted a gut laughing so hard. Can you believe she really got mad that I would not let her drive my truck back to the house. I made her get in the back and I walked back for the tractor.
Now is the unbelievable part - - on the 18th of this month we will celibrate 32 years of marriage. She limits the help she gives me and I don't think she has been in the cattle lot since. |
Hope her short-term memory holds out as well as her long-term memory! lol
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Northern Rancher
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Location: saskatchewan
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| This one deals with hockey-I coach double AA up here and seeing as it is a religion it gets pretty intense. We were on the road and my kids were playing a heck of a game. Our benchs were separated by a sheet of plexiglass between the two coachs. I tend to pace alot behind the bench-we were rushing the puck up the ice and I walked right off the end of the bench and plastered myself against that plexiglass like a bug on a windshield. The other coach just about crapped himself. Proud to say that in all my coaching career have never been accessed a bench penalty-one referree told me that I have mastered a stare that says more than words lol. Coaching helped during BSE border deal-while everyone was frettiong about cattle markets I was losing sleep thinking of my line matchups for the next game. Back to ranching-when we were first married my wife and I were going to do the family milk cow thing and being a thrifty young guy I decided to just break a couple of our better milking range cows as milk cows. The first one calved and I had her going pretty good-but for some unknown reason I had both cows tied together in the same stall. My wifes city friend was visiting and of course I promised her fresh farm cream. Down to the barn I go and get almost a full pail milked out of the first one. She then put her foot on the pail-i tried to lift it out with no success so I tried a liberal application of the scoop shovel-she kicked the pail over on the 4th of 5th backswing and I slipped on the spilled milk right into the gutter behind her. Well she tapdanced on me till I grabbed the other ones tail to drag myself out. She got a few good licks in. I'll never forget that city girls face when I dragged my battered body and flattened crap covered pail up to the house. I told her farm cream is wayyyyyyy overrated lol.
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Murgen
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Location: Ontario
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This is not about me, for sure. It's maybe a little disgusting, but funny. Not sure if I have ever told it before.
So, my friend was back behind the barn, and had a case of the trots. He didn't think he could make it to the house, so used a close bush.
That night his wife asked if he had forgot to put underwear on? "yes, I chose not to wear them today" was his reply.
Next day, the wife approached my buddy and said " the dog brought the underwear you chose not to wear yesterday, to the front porch!"
One more.
I was working a trade show once (Plowing match) where we always get alot of classes from the local schools.
I was standing beside a pen with a Scottish Highland cow and the teacher was teaching her class that "this is a bull children, look at his horns"
I went over and said, "no, this a mama cow"
She proceeded to argue with me that no, bulls are the ones with horns, my comeback, "and females are the ones that nurse, see the calf at the hind end suckling."
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DOC HARRIS
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Joined: 04 Jun 2005
Posts: 787
Location: Ft. Collins, CO
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Faster horses
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Location: MT/SD
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TXTibbs
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Posts: 1079
Location: South Central Texas, former South Dakotan
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George
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Location: Knightstown, Indiana
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Doc,
In my defense this was when I first got married and I was only 25 and had not mastered the art of diplomacy - - - I am much better at it now, although if you ask Debi I'm sure she would feel I still need work.
When we first got married she weighed about 95# and would get very upset if I sudgested that something was to hard for her. With 2 kids and several years she is about 130# now and still tries to do things that I feel are on the border of being to hard for me. I have seen her stand her ground against a mad sow and it takes a pretty mean cow to back her down.
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DOC HARRIS
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Location: Ft. Collins, CO
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Doc, you have been married 62 years? That is WAYYYYYYYY COOL!! You must have done something right!
Congratulations and many, many more years to you and your bride!
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FH -Thank you for your congratulations! I appreciate it very much. A happy, successful, productive and long-lived marriage is a result of extensive, conscientious, judicious, solitous, scrupulous, loving, tender, heedful observance of - - - -EPD's!!  - - - Oh - - - - -yes - - -I did - - - - EVERYTHING right!
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When you have been married 62 years - as I have _ you sort of automatically 