Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Where's Little Boy Blue when we need him?

On this, the first day of spring, we found ourselves in desperate need of Little Boy Blue:
Little boy blue,
Come blow your horn,
The sheep's in the meadow,
The cow's in the corn.
But where is the boy
Who looks after the sheep?
He's under a haystack,
Fast asleep.
That's because when I went out this morning to do chores, I saw the cows in the corn. Whee.


Here's Pixie near the raspberries.


And a bunch more culprits in the orchard.


The source of this mayhem, it turns out, is a gate the enterprising cows managed to lift off its hinges. Wheee.

In the absence of that lazy blue kid, I did the next available thing: roused both Don and Younger Daughter out of bed to round everyone up and shoo them out of the garden.

Grunt. Welcome to spring.

9 comments:

  1. And who said cows are stupid?

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  2. But they look so happy! Yea, Homesteading: Keeping critters in, and keeping critters out.

    Montana Guy

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  3. Do I guess correctly that you meant 'shoo' them out of the garden, not 'shoot' them?
    Chemechie

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    1. Bwahahaha. If that's not a Freudian slip, I don't know what is. Thank you, corrected.

      - Patrice

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  4. I think you mean "*shoo* them out of the garden." Shooting seems a bit too heavy handed a punishment for having lifted a gate off its hinges...

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    1. Yep, Freudian slip, all the way. Ha ha.

      - Patrice

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  5. Turn one of the hinge posts so that it is pointing down. That will keep the critters from lifting the gate. Or even easier add a strap to the gate to stop the lifting of the gate. Now that they know it can be done they will continue!

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  6. Oh, beloved animals that can always get to what they really desire. Would that we all took a lesson from their persistence.

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