by Jan Fielden
Taking a tractor ride in any pasture when it is cold, cold, cold and misting/raining/icing is just down right cruel. The Colonel said if he had thought about these days when he was young and bought his tractor he would have gotten an enclosed cabin. I told him he could still do it or even maybe we could build an enclosure to put on the tractor. I got so cold on Saturday feeding I had to come in to warm up. My hands were the coldest…so cold they hurt. I was smarter when I went back out and had put some of those warmer pads you put inside your gloves. They kept my hands warm for a good long time then.
My brother lives in Minnesota so I shouldn’t complain about the cold too much. It was minus 26 degrees there. My sister lives in Missouri and they had snow/ice/cold temps too. I always tease them they should come to Texas in the winter time. I would have been up a creek if they had chosen this winter to come, except even though it was cold here they would have thought it was a heat wave!
One thing was for sure, the cows were sure glad to see me when I showed up with a bale or two or three for them. I always check for some place to put a bale where the wind won’t hit them. I think they get colder than they probably do. I tried to put MO’s sweater on him and he wouldn’t have anything to do with it. He just accepted the sweater last time but oh, no! Not this time. Tasha has only had her sweater on one time. She shivers and shakes and her teeth chatter but she doesn’t like a sweater. We just roll on at the Red Oak Ranch through any kind of weather!
