Sunday started out with a surprise. When we came back from the diner after church, we had visitors. One of the buyers of our Angus had stopped by with his wife. It turns out they are third generation on their farm. But the farm was originally purchased from someone named Galloway. The wife thinks they ought to have a Galloway. While we were talking cattle, we walked over to our Coverall barn.

Surprisingly, there was a newborn calf with the cow we brought over yesterday. We didn't expect her to freshen for a few weeks. Our guest is a Holstein man and was amazed to see a 37 pound calf. It seems like Verne's young bull Natemin had been feeling his oats last February. We were glad it was fairly mild in the mid thirties. We mounded up some straw and stretched a tarp to provide a windbreak. They seem fine.

In the late afternoon, we took Eileen to the airport. She texted at 1AM to say she was safe at home in her dorm.

Monday had a nice start. I walked into the diner to be greeted by a chorus of Happy Birthday by all the regulars. A nice surprise. They suggested that this might be a nice year for to explore Route 66.

A friend stopped after chores. He is a great mechanic and he came by to see if we could find the source of a noise in our restored Allis Chalmers B. It looks like the weights in the governor are traveling too far and hitting the inside of the housing.. There is a real motor doctor in a neighboring town. I'll take the parts over to him for his examination.

I've been pretty worked up over an email from Coop. It seems that the EPA thinks cow flatulence needs regulation. Their idea is to charge $175 per dairy cow and $87.50 per beefer per year. This is real. Like they say you can't make this stuff up. I intend to tell everyone I know or run into to call or write or whatever to protest this asinine tax. You can relate to the folks in Boston.

The heifer calf is doing well. Fortunately it was 40 again today and should be for a few more days.

Mary made a nice dinner of Beltie beef and made my favorite grape pie. She topped it off with a fruit cake. A real treat.