Even though it was only for a day and a half, it was nice to get away from the cows for a few hours. The hard part is not worrying about all of the things that can go wrong while you're gone!
When most people in the working world go on vacation, they get paid time off. Imagine having to pay someone to mind your farm so that you can take time off - it puts a whole new twist on "paid" vacation! That is one of the things you have to factor into your cost of your vacation when you have cows. You have to pay someone to do your chores for you, all the time worrying about something going awry while you're trying to relax and catch a few extra winks. A cow going down, tractor not starting, silo unloader breakdown, anything can happen. You just have to trust that your hired help will be able to manage most of the problems while you're gone and pray that anything major holds off until you get home.
Atleast this time, only the silo unloader acted up. But our chore helper managed to piece things together to keep it going until we got home. Now it's time to head back to the barn and start the routine again. It's not so bad - we are thankful to have a job waiting for us upon our return. We have a cow and two heifers due to calve this week, so we'll have our hands full keeping up with that and restocking the woodpile, getting the truck in the shed for an engine rebuild, moving big round bales of hay, on and on it goes! Sounds like the temperatures this week are to be a bit milder, so that makes things a bit easier since you only have to put on three layers of clothing instead of five!
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