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The Tale of 1 Escaping Cow and 9000 Tomatoes
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
We have 4 cows on the farm and one bull. The bull is Atlas, the older cows are Kelly and Lena. We have two young ones, Iris is one year old, and Hazel is our runt and is 9 months old. We have to keep the babies away from Atlas for their own safety (to say the least), so they have a seperate pasture. We decided to move them to a temporary pasture so they could eat more grass and be closer to us (Hazel is a real people cow). Well, the spot we put them in lines up with the other cows area, and Atlas was happy to see the girls. He loves to smell them. We were scared for a day that he would knock the fence down to get to them. But, he behaved and only drooled after them. Being that it was a temporary fence, we did not secure it ultra well. We know we will take it down in a week. Iris was smart enough to figure it out this morning and made her way under a corner. Thankfully she did not take off running. We have had that happen many times! It took about 15 minutes, but we got her back in peacefully. It is so funny how crazy an animal getting out can make things. We all get tense until things are back to normal.
This week was full of transplanting…tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes. We did transplant some peppers, eggplant, and broccoli too, but when you have over 9 ,000 tomatoes in the greenhouse you end up feeling like tomatoes are all you do. I am happy to report that we seem to have saved all of our lettuce sprouts and asparagus from the cold blast of the last few weeks. Hopefully that is the last of it!
