<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/trail04102006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/trail04102006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/waiting04102006?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/waiting04102006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>It's that time of year again. Feeding is over and the cows get to go into the hills. Yesterday we took the two-year old heifers out to the hills. It was a long, tiring trek, 8 miles or so, for them. I didn't know if we were going to get them the last mile or so but we won in the long run. I have them in a little pasture we will brand them out of come the end of the month before we kick them out into their summer pasture. <br />n<br />nToday we will start mothering up and kicking the cows out. It's a little easier with them since we only have to gather some to the corner, mother them up, and kick them out the gate. They know where water is at so we don't have to take them to it or worry about them once their out. We will work at the cows a couple of days and then wait a day or two while they scatter out in the new pasture before we kick anymore out. If everything goes well we should have them all out by this time next week and off the fields. Then it's time to start farming. <br />n<br />nOh how I hate farming. It's one of those necessary evils though that it's time to do.<br />n<br />n<b>The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Robert M. Pirsig </b>