Opal

Little Dude finally was able to start his basketball season for the year.  He is in 7th grade and playing on the junior high team.  HD is in 8th and also on this team.  Here is a quick video of HD (#11)getting into a bit of trouble and LD (#20) saving the day.  LD is wearing a red shirt underneath his jersey.  You can’t miss him!

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In all my excitement over my new calf, Hazel, I forgot to mention another new addition we have here.

Meet Opal.

Opal is a heifer David recently purchased.  She is a charolaise-pronounced shar-lay.  Or so it has been explained to me.

I love the color of charolaise cows.  I have always wanted to charolaise heifer calf, but a grown heifer will do.  She will have babies and they will be cute.

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Of course, we must talk about Hazel.

Years from now, my own children are going to say,

“Mother?  How come you have 75 videos of Hazel the calf’s first week of life, but like 2 total of us as babies?”

After work today, I took Charlie and the puppy brothers out for a little exercise.

The puppies are absolutely crazy and never run out of energy.

I would really like it if they learned the words “no” and “come.”

Oh!  And they got fixed yesterday and I am supposed to keep them calm and that is just not possible for these two.

I let Hazel out of the coop to stretch her legs.  And I love her, but now I am worried.  Like all new moms are.  And I am worried that she won’t know how to be a cow.  Because she hangs out with people and dogs.

She joined us on our walk today.  She moo’d and ran after the puppies.

So.  Now I guess I will walk the dogs and the calf?

And that seems perfectly reasonable.