Luck

Here we go again, when it rains it pours. Thursday night it rained most of the night and really made things a soaking mess. It is February you know, rain is not normal at this time of year. Then on Friday it got really warm and finally started melting the bulk of our snow. We had torrents of water running through our corrals, through the barns, and attempting to flood the houses. Spent most of the day running around with shovels trying to divert the water away from important areas<br />n<!–more–><br />nFinally get all that under control and when I get up I notice the house is a little chilly. Not to bad so I didn't think anything about it until my Darling Wife got up and tried to kick the heat on. The furnace isn't working. Took me about a half hour but I figured out what was wrong but didn't have the parts to fix it. So my Darling Wife had to mud out and go to Billings (2 hours away) and track down the part I needed while I feed the cattle. She found the part and got back home about the same time I did and I got the furnace working.<br />n<br />nNo more than got the furnace running when I look out and the neighbors cattle have decided to visit my cattle and eat their lunch for them. So had to go out and kick their cows out of the little holding trap I have and figure out where they got in. Well their wonderful cattle broke down my fence to get into my feed and then decided that going through the fence would be more productive than going out the open gate. So now had fence to fix in two places. The big problem is one of those places was a creek bottom and we were standing in knee deep water, fixing fence, all to hold the neighbors cattle out, mine are real happy where they are.<br />n<br />nSo I was sure thinking I was having bad luck until I got an e-mail from my friend Bonnie. She knows a farmer down in Wyoming who had a fire in his shop on Tuesday. He lost hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of machinery, trucks and tractors. This was also the farmer that had brucellosis cows in his feedlot. Bonnie tells me that this guy doesn't want anymore luck since his all appears to be bad. Reminds me of the skit in Hee Haw whose song went something like, <br />n<br />nif it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all, <br />nblues, despair and agony on me.<br />n<br />nI wish I could say good luck was in store for all of us but sitting here looking out the window at the snow fall makes me wonder.<br />n<br />n<b>I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? Jean Cocteau</b>