Casey Bloging

Well things at the McCarty house are usually pretty busy.  7 days a week we have cattle of the bosses to take care of now we have cattle of our own to take care of which may be the only thing that keeps me from loosing my mind.  Between feeding the bosses little heifers, big heifers, little bulls, big bulls, chronic cattle, checking bred cows in three places and feeding hay it  leaves very little time to get anything done. But its part of the job and things I think are getting done the best way I can do them.  I could not get as much done in a day as I do if it weren't for Sasha helping out and Tessa to smile at me when we get done tagging a calf that is bawling at her cow that is standing 6 inches from us blowing snot at us and getting in the truck only after checking your pants to make sure the cost is clear. 
Tessa is a little worker.  She hates being in the house, and it used to be that she could just ride in the truck and be cool, but now she realizes that the action is outside the truck and she doesn't want to miss anything.  So now checking cows in the pasture means standing her up in your lap so she can see whats going on.  If I can keep her this motivated to stay busy, I will be set when she gets old enough to mow. lol
All in all things are going pretty good for us.  We are slowly building up a herd of calves that hopefully one day will be a set of cows that we can make money on.  I catch greif from people sometimes about the way we are going about aquiring our herd but if the only way to get to England is in a row boat, then I guess give me a paddle.  We have come to the conclusion that although it may be faster and alot easier to get there in a motor boat, if you don't have the cash for gas then you get nowhere.  So instead of sitting on the shore complaining about how we wish we were there, we are setting sail the only way we can.  Of coarse before people think that we are moving to England I guess I should clear things up that what I am talking about is that we are buying little bottle heifers and raising them one day at a time from the time their are little calves till the time they are cows.  (may have been known by all, just thought I would clear that up).  But we have alot of fun with the calves and Tessa has somehow, without being able to speak yet, talked me out of one of my heifers, her mom out of one of hers and talked both of us into buying her another.  So out of the 9 head we have so far, Tessa lays claim to three.  All the calves are named and most are pretty freindly.  Tessas cattle are Pipsqueek, Clara and Tessas Darlin.  The rest are Slu-foot, Daisy, Mira, Sookie, Peaches and Night.  Peaches im not sure realizes she is a calf and thinks of herself more of a dog.  She is funny to watch and will stand there and eat while we put Tessa on her back and let Tess pet her. 
Between the 400 head of cattle for the boss, 9 calves, 4 dogs and a fritz, raising an infant and trying to continue our social life at the feed store we have decided to add two goats to the picture.  Never a dull moment around the McCarty house.