When I was a Young man going to high school and liveing at home on the ranch with Mom Dad and soon to be married Sister. there were alwayse funny things happening, Like Dotty our Hog dropping her nose getting it under the hog wire fence raiseing her nose with absoultly no effort at all and just walkin out of the hog pin.... towards Mom's flower bed of corse... but thats another story....
one day after a good weeks of hard rain we were all up feeding the cows in their pin that was a good solid 2 ft of gooy mud Mom saw that the cows grain pan a 2ft square box of metal was kicked out of its holder and tossed into the deep mud... she said Hay Son can you get that grain pan ? I said OH MOM!
I got tenishoes on !( as I just got home from school and hadn't had a chance to change yet!) You got your boots on I'll squirt them off with the hose when ya get out !... so My Skinny as a Rail Mother started crawling OVER the rickity o'l fence as it was much easier than trying to wade through that Muck from the gate into their pin.... well, it so happens that "Sam" our Steer who we raised from a drop calf was watching the goings on, and desided to come invistigate and see what Mom was doing in his Pen !...now this guy was a play full critter, and at about 800 to 900lbs a bit too much for my mom to even
begin to intimidate... she wades over to the pan the muck almost topping her claf high boots...grabs the pan and gives it a fling over the fence.... Sam saw this and though OOOOOH FOOD !!!!!
and came lumbering up to Mom as if to say " I know ya got it Mom where is it! Gimmy it! come on ! I'm waiting!" ... heres the picture, Mom is about 10 feet from the fence and safty the steerabout 2 feet away with his neck streched out as far as he could Sniffin' Mom trying to find that grain... and ofcorse she didn't have any... so he gets persistant ! he knows she's got it... she must be hideing it!
and he boots moms arm with his nose as if to say , spred eagle Honny I'm gunn'a frisk ya!... and steps up as if he is about to do just that !... the look in that stears eyes was so comical I burst out laughing... he had her where he wanted her and he knew it... the sparkel in his eyes was the devil incarnet ! so Mom hollers at the Steer "Sam get back!" and swats him on the forhead....
With that Sam realised that it was a game ! and lowers his head and shakes his head from side to side
in the tiypical fashon of play for Choo moo's... which told Mom OOOOh OH best put it in reverse and get away from that 800lb MOOSE because I can't Manover in this MUD !... about then was when Mom Discovered her boot was Hopelessly STUCK in the deep mud.... Sam is Now getting all worked up hes starting to Hop around like a spring buck and Mom is Hollering at Him to go away.... I am laughing so hard I can't even stand up... I Know I have to do something before the silly steer desides to butt heads with Mom !
if that happens I may never find her under all that MUD !
I get to the fence MOM is screaming for me to help but I am useless I am laughing too hard to see anything but a bounceing cow and a Thin twig of a Woman balanceing on one foot trying to pull out her boot.... I hop over the fence and get an arm to steady My mother ... Sam is still now but still shakeing his head waiting for an opertunity ! ... and Mom cannot pull the boot up out of the mud
there we are , Me laughng so hard I can barely stand ...Holding my Moms left arm so she won't fall down
she's tugging on the boot top trying to get her boot out of the mud, and Sam desides to see what shes messing with.... it might be the GRAIN!... so here he comes Runs right up and stiff's his nose in Mom's boot! Mom lets out a Yell SAM ! and hits him on the head... his ears twitch... I desided that I'ed better get Mom out before he trampled her by mistake, so I picked up a board bythe fense line and smacked Sam with it and hollered at him Sam get back ... to which he simply ignored.... and looked around, as if to say,,, what was that noise? as the board busted accross his back......
... I took one more step and sunk to my Knee I told mom well, heheheh grab your hehehe boot, hehehehe and lets get out'a the pin! hehehehehhe.
And Mom in an exasperated voice said I CANT it won't budge !... I said well Put your Foot back in the boot hehehehehhe can you do that ... she said yah I think so but it won't move, I said one thing at a time... lets get your boot out first ! HAHAHHHA
.... to which she slipped her foot back into the Snot laced boot now that Sam autographed it with...
and then tries to take a step and I can see it ain't moving one bit...
Sam desides now to go around behind us .... to get a better vantage point I guess, the sparkel in his eyes was still ever present and looking for some small way to have a bunch of fun ant Mom's expense!
...by now I know there is no way to get out of the pin CLEAN... and I think Mom made the same discovery at about the same time... but she said Wait.... i think it moved... I said try to pull it up and back
which she did and ever so slowly it finally came lose.... but thatwas with her bad leg... she had busted the cartalage in the knee about 10 years prior to that and the knee didn't bend past 90 dgrees,one foot free and then which way do we GO
so she took another step accross the other leg as it was the closer move towards the fence line this left her sort'a cross legged in knee deep mud and discovered that the other foot was stuck as hard as the last one ! .... ..bynow I'm getting a bit discusted with all the playing in the mud and cow crapand I know Mom has had her fill of todays adventure and Sam was just standing there Looking the sparkel slowly leaving his eyes and dumb couriousity replaceing the expression on his face ... as if to say "What... ARE.. YOU.. DOING ?"
I'm still holding Mom's shoulder as she moved towards me and as she struggled to get the other foot free I desided to just pick her up[ and carry her out'a there.... I'm still haughing and shakeing my head and she says Wait Son My boots stuck again!... finally Mom and both boots were free of the mud and I deposited her next to the fence... a bit less mud there... and she proceeds to bend the fence down and throw a leg over it... I felt my shoes try to stay in their tracks too but I never said anything about it......
we got over the fence and Sam came to investigate what we were up to, and I gave him a good pet...
Mom shakes he finger at him and says OOOOH YOU ! and we both wandered doen to the water hose and took a well dserved shower from the knees down... I swore Igained 3 inches walking doen the hill as the mud and rocks gathered under my shoes... that was the stickiest Mud I have ever seen in my entire life!
to this day all I have to say is Hay Mom grab that grain pan will ya... and I get Hit ! HAHAHHAHAHA
...it Alwayse brings a round of laughter ...
it could have been real serious in short order... but I suppose that is what made it so funny !
Sam....get back ...go away ... son come get my boot its stuck!, Sam go away !... Sam! Don't you shake your head at me you silly cow... ROBERT ! get over here ! hehehhehehehheheh
HEHEHE I can't Mom I can't see ya HAHAHAHAHHAHA ! where are ya! HAHAHAHHAHAHA You down there MOM ? MOM where did ya GO ? hehehe OH stop fooling around I'm realy STUCK, SAM GO AWAY I don't have any thing for you see... now SHOOO ! No I'm NOT playing ! SAM ! get back !
.....A playfull 800 to 900lb steer in knee deep mud is a Funny thing when you add a Mom into the mix
.... Do you know ....I had to ge get the grain pan the next time they kicked it out there ! ... can't amagon why ! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
....Fond memories of my younger years ! how did we ever survive ! HAHAHAHA
...
Bob..........
