Last Thursday when I got to the barn to feed the animals I found our bull staring at me through the wall. Several years ago I had placed a dog door in the side so Sadie our Great Pyrenees mama dog could have her pups in the barn. Since then I usually just keep something stacked up against it because it is big enough that a few of the goats have used it.

The hay stack had moved beyond the dog door and I still had a trash can against it but that wasn’t enough to keep a hungry bull from making an even bigger door to get to the hay. I wish I would have had my phone with me to get a picture but all I could do was swat him on the nose and start feeding.

Fortunately I had some hardie board left over from the shower project. One piece had a hole in it that made for a good cat door. It was a quick patch job so I wasn’t too late for work.

Rosie still has her heifer calf Ruby but she has also taken up with a Guinea Hog piglet. They are together more than her and the calf. Rosie does love her little piggies.

Otis, out Great Pyrenees Anatolian Shepherd cross, is growing like a weed. He is 16 weeks old and is already the size of our hounds. He is going to be a big boy once he fills out. I don’t think he will be as heavy or thick as Shep was. Time will tell.

Sunday I was going out to walk the fence because one of the dogs had been getting out. I expected to find a place where she had dug out or maybe a limb on the fence. What I found took up the rest of the afternoon and killed the rest of my plans. A dead tree had fallen on the fence and taken it to the ground. My first sign was the goats happily browsing in the woods on the other side of the fence. They were a good 100 yards from the tree and from the look of the brush, the fence had been down for a couple of days at least. It’s a wonder that all the animals were not roaming the countryside.