A busted Father's Day

If anyone ever tells you that having cattle and horses is all fun they've never had any!

We only have two Texas Longhorn steers left. They were born at our place and will live there til they die which will hopefully be at the same time or we're in trouble! It doesn't matter if there's only two. They still can get out and cause problems. I have to admit that this time it wasn't completely their fault.

Apparantly, our big rains last week caused the dam to break on a pond on the property north of us. All the stuff had to go somewhere! It went right down through the creek on the backside of our place wiping out a huge portion of the fence. Since we didn't know, and of course didn't go check just in case, the steers wandered out and wound up about 1/2 mile behind us sometime Saturday night. We get the call about 9am Sunday morning and start the search. By noon Dad and I had found the steers, threw them some hay so they'd stay put, gathered up the fence fixing stuff and some sweet tea and was headed out.

Because of the tin horn being washed out going to the back pasture, we had to go up through the land to the north of us and cross the fence with all the stuff, then haul it to the creek bottom to get to work. Thankfully, it was only about 95 yesterday with about 105 heat index. I can't imagine if it had been hotter!

We got finished with that section of fence at about 4:45 in the afternoon. We ran out of sweet tea at about 1:30. Big problem! I should've hiked back to the house then and gotten more. Dad said we might be drinking out of the creek before it was all over. He wasn't too far off! We were both toast!

I have to say that I don't think I've ever been hotter, sweatier, or more tired than I was last night. Dad lost 3 1/2 pounds. I can't imagine I did too, but I'd like to think so.

Hopefully, the fence at the other end of the creek isn't as bad. I guess we'll find out tonight. I hope those silly big horned steers don't decide to find out for us!!!!

So, all of our Father's day plans were cancelled. I guess we'll try again another day!