Yesterday was a beautiful day. It started with a call from my neighbor. She has been having a lot of trouble lately keeping her horses in the pasture so I thought they must be out. There is a back part of our main pasture that we can't see from the road but she can from her house. She was calling to say that one of our lowlines was off in the corner calving.

I met her and we walked out. By the time we got there the calf was on the ground. I picked up the calf to carry him to the barn. The mother didn't object much so my neighbor and I and the mother started off. Soon Peter the steer arrived to walk with us. It would have been quite a sight to anyone watching. We got the cow and calf settled in a pen and weighed the calf and confirmed it was a bull.

We had identified the cow the day before as getting ready to freshen but we didn't expect it for a few more days. We like them to calve in the barn. Its a lot better for the calf and much easier on all of us.

Our dirt road had firmed up enough so that I was able to run the scraper behind the tractor to fill in some holes. This is an ongoing project. It looks pretty good now and I hope it stays that way.

The humidity was quite low and we had a strong wind in the afternoon. That led to a good sized grass fire. Someone had decided not to heed the no burning warnings and burned their trash. When the fire department arrived, the fire was alongside their house and melted their vinyl siding. A minute or two longer, they would have lost their house. You can't be too careful in dry times.

We have another cow that is due Saturday. She is in the barn where we can watch her. We know the due date of the ones that were artificially inseminated within a day or so. The ones that ran with the bull are much more of an unknown. We can just estimate from the day the bull went in the pasture with the cows.

It is quite dreary today with light rain. This should stop the brush fires.

I have mentioned in the past about how a few of the diner regulars swim at the school pool. It was suggested this morning that they might be practicing synchronized swimming. If they are, you can be assured that it would be quite a fund raiser to watch their performance.

This spring the golf course has a new owner. The previous owners had it from its origination in the 1930s through last fall. Our barber has been the most faithful player over the years. He must have logged several thousand rounds. He is also an expert at finding other players lost golf balls. He rarely if ever loses his own. He is also one heck of a golfer.

We hope the new owners invite him to hit the first ball this spring. Kind of like when someone throws the first pitch of a baseball game. It would be a great opportunity also to get some publicity for the course which all hope does well.