Spooked

9/14/06 - 5th Day - After Breakfast. I apologize for being away from the blog for a few days, I was out of town. This will be a quick update, then maybe I will blog some more later.

I ran up to the old house in Smyer for a couple days to pick up some things and to see what work needs to be done for us to sell the house. The panhandle of Texas has had quite a bit of rain, and the grass/weeds were tall and green. Gas is cheaper up there too. I paid $2.34 a gallon at Sam's Club in Lubbock, then paid $2.13 a gallon in Abilene on the way home.

I picked up some fencing materials from our old barn (not the sword-fighting kind, but the keeping animals in/out kind), our big antique dinner bell, our lawn mower, some gas cans, and about 10 boxes of books and other things.

Getting the pig has really upset the cows. They spent about 2 days staring at the pig pen, and they wouldn't come anywhere near that whole area of the pasture, including coming down to the corral where we need to milk them. So the two milk cows wouldn't come down for 2 days. Yesterday we got Holga to come down and we locked her up overnight and milked her this morning. Ami still wouldn't come down, but we are hopeful that she will tonight. They seem to be getting less afraid of the mysterious presence in the pig pen.

Hope all is well with you all,

Michael