Today we received a new cow. She is a 1 year old open heifer who is half black Angus and half red Angus. She was transported to us by our nephew. I was at work, but apparently initially she went a little crazy, jumping fences and running around. Finally she settled in the far corner of our pastures and stayed there until the evening. And then Jameson wandered into her field, and they seemed to make friends. They touched noses and proceeded to graze on the grass. The photo is from earlier when she was upset and seeing Summer for the first time. It was Tom’s idea to name her Louella. It is because she is so feisty that she reminded him of his grandmother Louella. He checked with his parents to make sure it was OK, and they thought it was funny. So that is her name. We may nickname her Lou or Sweet Lou, but I do like Louella.
When I got home from work, Wally was enjoying the dog house again. She is so funny.
We had leftover ham to eat for dinner. Neither of us were excited about plain ham with side dishes. So I got the idea to make ham pot pies. Not as healthy but tastier. Here they are coming out of the oven.
As I was making the pies, our neighbor started in with fireworks. There were some last night but farther away. But this evening they were really close and freaked out our dog and cats. We finally were able to collect all of them and into the house. They are still upset but not quite as bad. Then after dinner I went out to the barn to lock up the animals and bottle feed the calf (and check out our new cow). But the fireworks were bad, and the sheep were completely freaking out. So I let them into the barn. Just as they ran frantically into the barn, these fireworks went off.
I was able to get the peacock and peahen into the barn too. So as long as the house nor barn catch fire, we should make it through the night. Tomorrow is a whole other story though.
Congrats on the new cow! love the name 🙂 only a little bit of fireworks here so far. really hoping that tonight won’t be too crazy. it is hard on the critters.
Thanks Denise! More photos coming. I am glad your fireworks haven’t been too bad yet. I am assuming tonight will be worse than last night. I feel so bad for our animals. They don’t know what’s happening.
People just have no clue how hard the noise is on wildlife, pets , farm animals and noise sensitive people, and ptsd. We live by tons of idiots who do them all year round and it is really bad when it becomes legal on June 29th (no reason for them to be legal that soon). We hide out in the basement with noise and more noise and it still sounds like WW3 every year. And people around here do them all day long and until past 2:30 am (when it is legal to only do them until 11:45 pm)
I am not sure they have no clue or don’t care. Almost all of the fireworks we deal with are illegal. I always say it is like a war zone here. Not looking forward to tonight.
Hi Donna! I enjoyed reading this post! The part about Louella is fantastic! I’m glad you were able to get your peafowl into the barn.
I’m sorry you have so much trouble with thoughtless neighbors. We thought ours were bad, but yours must be worse! Ours were doing a few mild fireworks that weren’t too bad yesterday afternoon, for their two young children. They were really enjoying them. I wasn’t able to see them, since they were behind our car. This evening is sure to be much worse. They mostly do the legal ones. The illegal ones are usually farther away from our house, but they’re still loud enough to make us jump! I hate it when they set those off when we’re needing to sleep.
Like you, I’m dreading tonight.
I am glad you neighbors had mild fireworks yesterday. I hope it is true today as well.