Just need to talk to my friends (197)

Morning, sultry and cloudy here this morning. There was up to 5" of rain just north ofTulsa last night. We still have a little chance but I won't hold my breath. Hope everyone has a nice day.

Sad evening. They took two loads of cattle, one for the big calves and the other for some cows. They took Gray Lady! I had her in the West paddock- should have let her out with the heifers.. Guess he took the cows to other pastures+ - I hope. He did leave Billy the Bull (I still own him)) I do still have the Pyrenees and cats so some reason to get up in the morning. He must have taken someone's small calf because I hear one or two cows bawling and hunting for her baby. I do not like this! Hope everyone is well this morning Cool morning here, the weatherman says. I haven't been outside.

Thank you. HB and Judith. I shouldn't get so attached but can't help it. I saved her and her calf from all the little bulls and then fed and cared for her for five months. No way to not get attached.

JeriLynn, he wouldn't, barely had time to take all of them last night. He had been wanting to do that for weeks. Last evening I asked him what he was doing and he said she was going with him. I asked if had to and he said yes. He's a rancher so they are just cows to him. He told me weeks ago that be could take her and put her in a pasture with other older cows so they could feed them better.. At least I can hope she's with the rest of her family in a good pasture - at least hope. His trailers are those huge cattle trailers so coming back is not an option.

A few years ago Darwin had an older cow down way up in a pasture and he took feed and water to her for weeks, then grieved about her when she wss gone. My.mother did the same thing. Freckles tried to calve down in the pasture. She lost her calf and then couldn't get up for days. Mother took feed to her every day and carried water to her from a nearby pond. She did get up eventually and lived a long time. It's just what we do when we don't have big herds and have the time to interact with them.

We have unhappy cows here today. Some have babies gone and they're bawling and looking for them. Charles and I and my parents never sold cows, just yearlings. Our cows were born here, lived here and then died here. Best way, I think. A friend once told me he had a really old cow and his wife told him he should sell her. He told her she was at home and was going to live the rest of her life on his farm. Difference in small and big ranchers. Thank you all for caring.

Ron, Judith is right. Even after almost ten years it still happens to me when I think of something or see a happy couple . Guess it always will. It is okay to cry and grieve.We have to in order to survive.

Probably were yearlings. Don't know where he took them. He has pastures every where. Hope it wasn't OKC. Haven't been up to count them but imagine not over a dozen cows and several calves. He cleaned house as we used to say at the hospital when the Chief of Medicine made rounds in the absence of a ward doctor (lots of discharges).

Big stockyard/ sale there