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As with most folks around here, we are starting to see the damage that took place a few nights ago.  We thought we had escaped anything major.  We were wrong.  Last night was dark when I disconnected the hose on the hydrant that feeds the remote watering station for the cattle.  It was light, this morning, when I went out to attach it.  A somewhat large limb had blown down.  This limb, once belonging to an aged cottonwood tree, had fallen onto a short run of fencing.  The fence consisted of 5 strands of barbed wire and 3 strands of hot wire.  Unfortunately, when the branch fell on it, the fence wire didn’t break, instead, it pulled the corner post, past it’s breaking point.  The fence was down.

Carol and I turned Tim, the farm’s full-blood Boer billy goat, out with ‘his’ ladies goats.  This morning, Carol found 2 does with their heads stuck in a cattle panel that was meant to keep the males from the females.  They are fine… no harm done.  We were going to turn Tim with the females on Nov. 1st, but with more and more does coming into heat, we felt the problem of stuck goats is mostly avoidable.  Time “tagged” four does in the 1st 30 minutes of being turned out with the females.

For lunch, we had leftovers.  Normally, this alone in not worth mentioning, but today was different.  Carol had made venison commercials.  A commercial is dish best known to be served in small cafes.  It is a simple dish, usually consisting of mashed potatoes and a hot sandwich, cut in half and covered in gravy.  I think a vegetable is served as well, but unless I start eating squash, a vegetable wasn’t available… to me.  With or without a vegetable, it was a great tasting lunch.  Everything is better with home-made bread.

Venison, mashed potaotes and home-made whole wheat bread... yum, yum!

In the early afternoon, I made a quick trip to my local Ritchie dealer.  My Omni II automatic waterer was in.  On my way to the small town, in which the dealer is located, I saw some major wind damage at a neighboring farm.  A hay shed was nearly stripped of all its siding, exposing the hay it housed.  Excepted for only a few sheets of tin, the lumber framing was all that could be seen… other than the wet contents inside.

We were lucky to experience the small amount of damage we received.  It could have been much worse.

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2. New Yard Fence
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