A Visitor

Somebody was looking through out gate.  Pam and Maisie seemed to think we had good food or something up here that they should get.

Well, Miss Maisie was little enough to sneak through.

She explored.

That's Nate saying, "hi."  Really, that's his hi.

She nibbled.  She had fun!  Pam stared through the gate and was stressed.

Maisie was a nice little visitor.

I wonder if she'll come back to visit again.

Conclusion

Well, the next day when we went out to pasture, we found the human's nephew there. He had his big backhoe and panels and the human's dad, and they were messing with the fence and putting in a couple of new gates.

When we got to the door to the nice fresh waterway (where the human yelled at us), we found this.

They closed the door! No problem, we just browsed our way across the pasture

and down the hill.

Lily was checking the fence for any other open doors.

Penny found a way to get some of those nice tall weeds.

So did Bambi (I still won't give up my horns even though she can just put her head through).

They had closed the door down there at the bottom of the hill too.

At least the nephew left us a nice little scrubby tree to eat.

Joe and Muffin tried going through that big green gate, but it was closed too.

Well, at least now we know where we're not wanted, don't we.

Pasture Day

Oh how nice it was. I was just trying to play my horns on the gate when it happened. My horns snipped through the wire. It was old and rusty so our human should have known to replace it, but she didn't. Well, after my horn just ripped through there, it was easy for us to slip through.

We went down to the pasture. If felt so good to get out of the barnyard and stretch and run and eat green stuff. Granted we almost had to scrape our teeth in the dirt because the grass hasn't grown up very much, but it was green. Then I looked up, and there she was on top of the hill, so I called for everyone to high tail it back up to the barnyard. I hoped she wouldn't be mad and yell and kick us out for the coyotes to eat the way she did the rooster (I personally have seen him attack our human several times since she kicked him out. I hate to think how mean he was to the other rooster.).

She didn't even say anything. We went back in the barnyard, well most of us. Later, we went back out to pasture. Dolly and Pebbles even brought their babies. Helen is definitely her mother's daughter--she got her head stuck in the fence. Luckily our human was driving home and climbed the fence to help her out.

Because it was so nice to be out there, we came up with a plan to always have a couple of us out so she'd have to leave it open. Pebbles was out there, but she ruined our plan. As soon as it was supper time, she left her post and was back in the barnyard. When I tried to leave later, it was all put back together. Well, it was nice for a day.