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March 12, 2013
March 11, 2013
Tubing is for Slacker Cows
My Cowboy doesn't give a newborn calf a bottle if he won't suck. He tubes them. See the long tube on this bottle? That goes down the calf's throat and right into his stomach and the milk just pours right into his little belly. Warm milk. His mama is supposed to provide that, and she will, but clearly some intervention is needed and the sun is setting so we need to get hot milk into the new baby.
Insert the long tube in the calf's mouth and slide it all the way down his throat. This isn't a bottle for sucking, oh no. It's a tube, also called Drenching. Threading the tube down the calf's throat into it's tummy where he will be filled with luscious, life saving food his mama is too dumb to stand still and provide...even as she stands inches away, threatening to SAVE HER BABY from the scary cowboy and his wife, who is standing well away and emitting an odd clicking noise. (the camera)
"You're prepared to step in and shoo her away if she charges, right?" My cowboy asks...me! Then the calf says, "Hot milk? I don't want that? I was thinking more a venti cappucino! MAMA SAVE ME!"
What are you doin' to my baby? (insert horrible bellow...she sounds like a bull. This is not a MOO, it is deep, throaty, MEAN)
The calf lurches sideways and shakes the tube. The cow puffs hot breath in My Cowboy's face. He said, "You feed him then, Slacker Cow
Wait, there's a shiny object. Okay, fine, you do it.
So the job is left to My Cowboy after all. And mama looks on, along with a young heifer, still waiting to calf, who is thinking, "So, that's how it's done. Got it."
Insert the long tube in the calf's mouth and slide it all the way down his throat. This isn't a bottle for sucking, oh no. It's a tube, also called Drenching. Threading the tube down the calf's throat into it's tummy where he will be filled with luscious, life saving food his mama is too dumb to stand still and provide...even as she stands inches away, threatening to SAVE HER BABY from the scary cowboy and his wife, who is standing well away and emitting an odd clicking noise. (the camera)
"You're prepared to step in and shoo her away if she charges, right?" My cowboy asks...me! Then the calf says, "Hot milk? I don't want that? I was thinking more a venti cappucino! MAMA SAVE ME!"
What are you doin' to my baby? (insert horrible bellow...she sounds like a bull. This is not a MOO, it is deep, throaty, MEAN)
The calf lurches sideways and shakes the tube. The cow puffs hot breath in My Cowboy's face. He said, "You feed him then, Slacker Cow
Wait, there's a shiny object. Okay, fine, you do it.
So the job is left to My Cowboy after all. And mama looks on, along with a young heifer, still waiting to calf, who is thinking, "So, that's how it's done. Got it."
March 10, 2013
They're naming blizzards now, right?
They're naming blizzards now, right? Like they name Hurricanes?Well, yesterday we had a calf with a daddy named blizzard, it was 50 degrees and mostly sunny.
Today we have a blizzard, I propose we name it CALF
Calf named BlizzardBlizzard named Calf.There is a nice rhythm to that.Church is cancelled.Long snow day ahead. Of course I'm running late because I didn't roll out of bed at the correct Daylight Saving's Time time. Mary Connealy
http://www.maryconnealy.com
Today we have a blizzard, I propose we name it CALF
Calf named BlizzardBlizzard named Calf.There is a nice rhythm to that.Church is cancelled.Long snow day ahead. Of course I'm running late because I didn't roll out of bed at the correct Daylight Saving's Time time. Mary Connealy http://www.maryconnealy.com
March 6, 2013
I'm on Word Sharpeners today
I'm on Word Sharpeners todayWith a woman who saved my life onceTamera Lynn KraftShe saved me from a cloverleaf in OHIO onceI'd still be driving around and around and around if Tamera hadn't stopped me and pointed.THANK YOURead More Here
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Welcome Mat Wednesday
Melissa Tagg Hosts authors every Wednesday and calls it.......
Welcome Mat Wednesday!!!
Today it's me.
To get your name in the drawing for a signed copy of Swept Away....read more here
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March 4, 2013
MY DAY ON SEEKERVILLE
STOP IN=there is a prize, but you'll have to stop in and see what
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March 1, 2013
This is so cute I can't stand it!
My youngest and cutest reader EVER.Guppy Harkness, who is three years old and has a fondness for cowboys...also, according to his mom, a fondness for making up excuses not to go to bed.:)Mary Connealy http://www.maryconnealy.com
CHANCE TO WIN SWEPT AWAY
And I'm also Author of the MonthOn Amber Perry'sHISTORICAL CHRISTIAN REVIEWS BLOGFind out how to get your name in the drawing by clicking
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I probably will regret this.......
.....I'm on Barbara Vey's blog today...the instructions were......
take a picture of yourself writing and NO GETTING DRESSED UP AND SHINING UP YOUR WORK SPACE.
Writers at Work
Well, I obeyed her, for good or ill. (probably ill)
Mary Connealy
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take a picture of yourself writing and NO GETTING DRESSED UP AND SHINING UP YOUR WORK SPACE.
Writers at Work
Well, I obeyed her, for good or ill. (probably ill)
Mary Connealy
http://www.maryconnealy.com
February 27, 2013
CHANCE TO WIN SWEPT AWAY
On Lena Nelson Dooley's Christian Writer's World
Welcome back, Mary. Let’s do some fun questions first. What song most closely resembles your life?
Wow, Lena. This is a hard question. I’ve got a book to write you know? The song that comes to mind is READ MORE HERE Mary Connealy http://www.maryconnealy.com
Welcome back, Mary. Let’s do some fun questions first. What song most closely resembles your life?
Wow, Lena. This is a hard question. I’ve got a book to write you know? The song that comes to mind is READ MORE HERE Mary Connealy http://www.maryconnealy.com
