Day of Recovery

We spent this day recovering from yesterday’s mistakes.

First we’d been short handed while moving pairs yesterday and missed a few pairs in the gather. Then we trailed through two pastures of cattle who were interested in our progress and wanted to join in. With only three of us riding, it’s really surprising we didn’t have even more trouble than we did.

Then last night all the weaned calves broke fences down and ended up in three pastures. That resulted in quite a bit of fence to fix this morning, plus one heifer with a chin full of porcupine quills to pull.

All ended well except that I lost my camera – and I wasn’t even horseback then!