Walled In

And it feels weirdly right……

My back fence and a wall of corn — current summer

This is a very weird year.

We’re walled in by a field of corn. Usually our neighbour, the cattle farmer, rotates his many cows around in his various fields, which for some reason are scattered around the neighbourhood. Some of his fields are joined together. Sometimes when he moves his cattle around, he has to set up a cattle drive and block off everyone’s driveways until the cattle have passed. Always cool to watch, and always a perfectly good reason (out in the country) to be late for work or appointments of any kind. Always take a picture of the cattle going by.

There’s always a couple of months where the cows are up near our fence, grazing contentedly. They’re a breed which is mostly black and we have a black lab cross dog, so the mom cows come over to stare at her. She’s almost the size of their smaller calves.

My dogs watching cows in the back field last summer

We’ve had vehicle troubles we didn’t expect. While we were fixing the problems that we knew about, the engine went on our Suburban and the power steering blew out on the car. Okay, time to park those two for the upcoming winter. The one we needed the most was the one with a broken engine…….