I was talking to my sister this morning and she said they were weaning calves and working them. Then she proceeds to tell me that a few days ago a cow that they had penned with some others decided to charge her husband and daughter.
She said, “I don’t know why this cow got so mad out of the blue.” Well maybe I should have reminded her that a cow is a female. So, I told her, “No cussing today, only nice words, like me and my family always do.” She said, “We are working on that.” There are so many stories that come about when a husband-and-wife work cattle together. Many times, the wife walks back to the house before the job is finished as we men tend to holler or “expect you to read our mind.”
A man called about buying him some Brangus heifers to breed or some bred cows. He was telling me a few years ago a tornado blew his house away so now he is living in one of those houses referred to as “Tiny House”. He also said his wife had left him. After that his ex-asked him if he was going to remarry. He said, “I told her if you get one arm cut off you don’t go cut the other one off too.” I didn’t ask him if he had been married several times or not, but he did say, “You know if you keep dividing your stuff pretty soon you are down to zero.” Then he added, “You know now that I think about it may be zero is easier to divide.”
On Friday cattle futures went down the limit. And any time that happens then they move to expanded limits, which is one and a half times the already too high limits. Thus, live cattle Monday can move $10.75 more and feeder cattle can move $13.75 per hundredweight more.
President Trump had said beef was too high and was making a deal with another country to import more. There could have been a better week for that announcement as I am gathering yearling steers off grass this week. Oh well, I should look at the bright side maybe I won’t have to pay as much income tax.
I have the body of a rugby player. I guess I should get him out of my deep freeze. I told my sister that story. She said, “Most people don’t like sick humor.” I said, “Yeah, I guess just me.”
At the airport last week, I heard a daughter say to her mom as they were dragging her three suitcases, “Mom you took 27 outfits for this three-day trip.”
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.
