We were really bored and got to go on a ride

We don’t have cows anymore.

Nope, Dad sold them.

“This is too bad” — according to Mom, “because we have lots of grass this year.”

Dad said, “Yes, and no fences!”

Oh…that’s right!

Cows eat grass. That’s why ranchers raise lots of grass — because they usually have lots of cows (and sometimes sheep or other grass eating animals).

We live on a farm and Dad kept cows so they could eat the grass on the land that he couldn’t get a tractor on.

Cows love grass.

They eat grass even when they aren’t standing up eating grass; they eat grass when it looks like they are chewing gum. That’s because they swallow their food (grass and weeds) whole and then (this is the really good part) they burp it back up and eat it again and then swallow it again. That’s because they have many chambers to their stomachs.

I would like to burp back my food, but it doesn’t work that way for us dogs. We burp it back up and it just comes on out of our stomachs and mouths and lays there on the ground all wet and gooey. Of course, we eat it again. But it doesn’t work like ‘cud’ does for a cow.

One thing the fire did is burn off all the old grass then the new grass came back nicely.

We got lots of nice thick grass.

And some Sweet Clover! Mom loves the smell of Sweet Clover, the honey bees like it too, so us dogs stay away from Sweet Clover, we just take Mom’s word for it that it smells good.

Dad, Mom, Boomer and I all rode around checking everything out.

Sure was fun.

Crops are looking good!

Beans are getting more leaves…Dad says he will have to cultivate soon, and maybe one more time. After that all the spring equipment will be put away until another year.