Spent a wonderful day of rest with my husband and my two youngest daughters on Sunday. The teens were off to Mid-Summer Lord's Day at Harbor Baptist Church in Holland so it was just parents and littles for the day.
The festivities started on the way home from church. We were almost home and notice dust coming from the farm across from our house. They are building a new barn to house their dairy herd but they don't usually work on it on Sundays. As we drew closer we saw a cow out and about and then another... and another... and another. They were running around the construction site, up and down dirt hills and out into the road having a marvelous time... at least 20 or 30 of them. (They have a dairy herd of 300'ish and a beef herd of around 100'ish.)
It isn't unusual for a calve to get out of its pen from time to time but this was the first time we had seen any bigs out. We quickly put the car in reverse and went to go get the farmer. He was just on his way out to catch them when we drove up and had his farm hands with him. He thanked us and disappeared to corral cows. They got them under control pretty quickly.
We found it all rather funny and I'm sure the farmer is glad we did. Apparently the lady who we bought the house from was not amused by such happenings and was constantly complaining and making life hard for the farmer. Now, he may be an industrial type farmer but I still respect what he does and appreciate the hard work it takes, not to mention I still buy my milk from the store so his service is vital to me. I don't understand why people don't treat farmers better. Do they not like to eat? This isn't Star Trek where replicators just make food appear. Someone has to work hard to provide it! (I might add that this is a young farm family... second generation... we want to be an encouragement to them.)
After the cow excitement we spent the day relaxing outside. (City daughter wasn't home to complain about the great outdoors.) We had target practice, watched chickens, built a fire and roasted marshmallows and just in general had a marvelous technology free day! I am so thankful for God and his wisdom to give us a day of rest.
Daddy and daughters (Every girl needs a pink gun!)
Reagan (Katniss Everdeen) Lewis
Target Practice!
Dancing in the great outdoors...
Chickens on the move...
The rare red-headed, blue clothed squirrel posing in her natural habitat! (There isn't a tree in our yard that she can't climb.)
Construction site across the street where the cows were playing.
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