Friday, July 11, 2008

When A Cow Wakes You Up

So every July ranchers bring their cattle up to the National forest... i guess to let them eat and get all fat before sausage season. So we knew they were coming... and i was prepared. They told me that hundreds and hundreds of cows would be traveling the road... but i didn't think it would be as entertaining as it actually was!!
On wednesday... the day before i knew they were coming... my family and i were driving out of the valley... only to come across them already on the move.


So... they only got a little bit up the road that day! Good thing...
But... thursday morning... July 10th was the day everyone prepared me for. We had set up fences and everything...
So my family left around 7am... and i went back to sleep. At about 9 i woke up to a harmonious mooing from my window. Yup. the cows were here. I jumped out of bed to make sure the fence was closed... too late. They had already broken through our makeshift fence... and we now grazing our pond, and everywhere else. There were a lot. Hundreds. Quiet the scene!!
So i shooed off a few to find that they are easily scared : ). Anyway... i chased off probably like 50-60 cows yesterday. In my basketball shorts and my rainbows... not to cowgirl... but that's alright! It was funny. Here's the video i made... right after i woke up. Hence the low manly voice! : )


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