Taking the Bulls to the Yearling Heifers

Ok, this first picture has NOTHING to do with the title of the blog, but I managed to get a picture of the following scene.  This makes my husband's day when he manages to do this :)

Yes, he held up the school bus that arrived after we started crossing the cows over the road to the other side of the farm.  MAKES his DAY :)

Back to the original purpose of today's post:  the bulls.  We headed to Dad's farm, where the bulls are kept, and even though we were only going to take seven of our eleven bulls to go down with the heifers, we had to catch them all to vaccinate them.

This is Micking, or as Danny calls him, "Mr. King".  Behind him you can see the rest of the motley crew of bulls.  Micking is two years old now, he was born in March of 2010, he is a Dutch Belt/Finish Ayrshire cross.

We don't normally keep the bulls for longer than two years, so that they don't breed their daughters.  We have four two-year old bulls and seven yearling bulls.  We like to send at least one or two mature bulls with the yearling bulls.  This isn't a bad group of bulls, but I am really excited about many of the bulls that were born this year that we kept.  The group you see above will be severely reduced after calving season this year to make way for the new guys coming along.  

We got the bulls vaccinated and onto the trailer without too much of an issue.  We were concerned about getting the trailer stuck because it has been raining here (hooray for rain!) and the ground is pretty saturated.  So when Dad went to pull the trailer out of the field he tried to gun it...

. . . then he hit the culvert with the side of the tire, not only popping a huge whole in the tire, but bending the rim of the tire.

So this was how he ended up leaving the field. . .

I don't know if you can see it or not, but front trailer tire is flat.

Since we didn't want to risk the interstate with the trailer tire looking as it did we headed back to the farm with the bulls still in the trailer--we weren't giving up just yet.

Then we proceeded to change the tire, but we needed a little help because we had seven fat bulls on the trailer, so it was heavy.

Dad found a tire that worked to replace the one that blew, and we made our way down.  Sadly, I forgot to take a picture of the bulls in with the heifers, because we had to get back to our farm so we could milk.

The Lord is teaching me  to rely on Him.  Whether it be flat tires, or not as many cows coming in heat that we think should be coming into heat, or getting the bills paid, I need to put my trust in the Lord.  He does not always provide in the way I expect or in the way I would choose, but He is God and I am not, and I will choose to put my trust in Him.  I can't imagine putting my trust anywhere else.  Humans fail, weather changes, and I make way to many mistakes.  The Creator of the universe has promised to never leave me nor forsake me--why would I put my trust in anyone or anything else? 

"The LORD sustains all who fall and raises up all who are bowed down.  The eyes of all look to You, and you give them their food in due time.  You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.  The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.  the LORD is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth."
                                                                              ~Psalm 145:  14-18