Monday and Tuesday were days that could make a preacher cuss if he was sorting or checking cattle in the wind.
But maybe it will blow up a rain. I have guys ask me how is retirement? I’m not retired nor do I plan on it. There are days that I should have stayed home and not gone to the cattle sale. Oh well, I need to help keep these vaccine companies in business.
Am I the only one that hates these new so called easier ways to give Micotil with the fancy syringe and you have to pull the trigger first. I wish some of these genius people would go to the feedlot and try out their new invention before they quit making the old bottles, which by the way you can even see if they are empty! I am told most cattlemen are breaking the plastic outside container. It’s like the hot shot that shocks one more time after you have pulled the trigger. If you are not smart enough to pull the trigger when you need it, you shouldn’t use it.
Seems like lately I worry all the time. So a friend suggested that I hire someone to worry for me. So I met a guy and explained my situation. So I agreed that I would pay him $500 a week to do all my worrying. This is great when someone tells me about a problem I have. I say, “Tell Bob that’s not my problem.” Then another friend said to me there is no way you can afford to keep paying Bob that much. I said, “That’s not my problem, tell Bob.”
A friend gave me a parrot. But he did warn me that parrot cusses a lot. One day when the family came over and naturally the parrot started cussing. So my Mom grabbed the parrot and put him in the deep freeze. After about 30 minutes I got the parrot out and he was stiff. I said to the parrot, “I hope you have learned your lesson. Do you have anything to say now?” The parrot said, “Yes I do have one question.” I said, “What is that?” He said, “What cuss words did all those chickens say that were in that deep freeze?”
Editor’s note: The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not represent the view of High Plains Journal. Jerry Nine, Woodward, Oklahoma, is a lifetime cattleman who grew up on his family’s ranch near Slapout, Oklahoma.
