How High's the Water Momma?

Hope you folks to the east are doing ok, are safe and sound and dry.

I went to do my pre-op bloodwork yesterday morning and the road to the hospital was nearly flooded out.  For those who have never been to it, Bailey Medical in Owasso is on an old 2 lane farm road that is in desperate need of both repair and widening.  About a half-mile from the hospital coming in from the west side, the road was half flooded and people had to go thru the area like it was a one-lane road.  As for where my parents are from, Liberty, the bottomlands and creeks are all flooded and dad had to move the cows up to higher grounds.  Specially since most of them have 1-2 month old little whipper snappers who are VERY curious.  Cattle are money, and for anyone who has had to pull a dead baby calf out of the water its NOT a fun experience.  Luckily all are well though.

Only in Oklahoma would someone  post about pulling a dead calf out of a river.....or maybe Wyoming.....

I agree with you Deb only in Oklahoma would we talk about calfs in water

Gotta love those baby calfies. My dad raised Herefords and cross-bred them later on with Beefmasters. The most amazing sight was a Beefmaster bull weighing at least a ton with little bitty short legs make a vertical leap over a 5 wire barbed wire fence and easily clear it. Hope all our friends are drying out in that area. I've got that song echoing in my head now..Johnny Cash..

Wow someone else who knows Beefmasters.  We raised them for a good 20+ years and I showed them from the age if 15 til I was 21.  Many fond memories.  We got out of the purebred business after I got out of school though and now dad runs some Red Angus and black baldies.

So you can probably understand why I get homesick to go home to the country and see them. Dad raised cattle and grew wheat, oats, rye and barley near the town of Reydon, which people don't usually know where it is. I really miss the smell of a sweaty horse after a day of moving cattle. That's the first thing I'm getting when I retire and move home..a horse..as long as I can haul myslef up into the saddle again! I didn't show calves, but my husband and his sisters did. We didn't have an FFA chapter until I was a senior, and girls couldn't join.