The GrouchO-CrouchO

Fencing

Hi! I am trying to find my Dad. He is out fixing these fences.

Oh! There he is! He had his ear protection on...so he did not hear us calling.

Our mom says he only wears that so he doesn't have to listen to her...which is kind of true.

Our Dad has to check his whole fence line and make it good and sturdy.

Now that Spring is coming the cows can be let out to pasture... and they have to stay off that Highway.

How is it looking to you Guinness?

Good thing we are here to keep and eye on things...

And keep Dad company...so he doesn't have to wear those ear thingies!

Clinging to the Last...

Gramps Egg Hunt!

Gramps got 6 Eggs!

The hens are laying again!

....so Spring is here for certain!

Just Testing ...

Nanny Guinness

Guinness here. On Easter morning I peaked in the nursing pen and look what I found!

Uh oh...this is the smallest calf I have ever seen. He is so frail and weak. His mother has rejected him...so he hasn't nursed.

Gramps comes over to help. He is a farmer from way back, he knows what to do.

The little calf won't suckle...

...and he can't stand up very good either.

So he has to be fed through a tube instead. That tube goes down his throat and into his tummy. It does not hurt the calf at all.

Then I lick the calf down to try and stimulate him. I have always been good like this with the new calves. Sometimes people call me Nanny Guinness, because I have good nurturing skills.

I lick his ears and his neck and his face. Poor sweet calf.

It's OK little buddy.

PROGRESS

Look! We got to the farm for our afternoon walk and look who we see way down in the field! It's Groucho! See him?? Hang on! Here we come Groucho!

WHOA! Look at that dude go! He has turned into some kind of elite-conehead-alien-flying- athlete!

You know, he really is a swell little guy...and he is pretty cute, no one can deny him that....

...and we don't MEAN to make fun of him all the time...it's just that, well, he is so quirky and strange...and he talks to dead things!

"GREETINGS FELLOW HORNED ONE"