Happy Canada Day

This year for Canada Day was not much different than any of our past Canada Day's!!!  It started relatively early with moving the bulls in with the cows to start the breeding process!  This year Jared enlisted every single Puzey available on the farm and those of us who could drive drove a vehicle down to the sand!!

We lined the road on both sides of the gate with trucks, our van and even the tractor with the cutter attached!!  We had only one neighbour drive up to see if we needed any help, not too embarrassing!!

This year we weren't using our tried and true bull, the bull who as soon as the gate opens he is crossing the road and looking for his female friends, he would be breeding his offspring this year and that always results in too many problems.  So we borrowed one of Buck's bulls and thankfully he and Mambo, our slightly aggressive bull, teamed up and always managed to stay together.  Canada Day morning was typical for these two new friends and they were found in the watering hub by themselves while Nova, the tried and true, was out in the field.  Jared quickly locked the two bulls we were needing to move across the road in the watering hub and came home to round the rest of us up.

The only problem....as badly as Mambo wanted the female cows he didn't seem too eager to want to move across the road.  With how aggressive he can be and how unpredictable, Jared was apprehensive about getting in the watering hub with the two bulls.  All us other Puzey's stayed safely behind vehicle doors, while Dave and Jared tried every trick they could think of, without getting too close to make these bulls walk across the road to "greener" pastures!!!  Finally Jared got on the quad and rode out into the herd of cows to bring some up for the bulls to see just where they would be moving.  This worked and in mere minutes the two bulls were in their glory walking across the road with the group of cows Jared had moved through.

Jared went back to cutting hay after this and I took the kiddos into the pool to do some swimming.  In the evening we took the kids to the "Inside Out" movie, which I must say was really good...quite heart warming!!  The kids liked it and I even got to hear Calum's typical gut laugh a few times throughout.  We went out for ice cream after and were hoping to watch the fireworks at Henderson Lake but we just had a hard time sitting around to wait for over an hour before they would start with all ready very tired kids!!!  About 20km before turning down our road I looked back and found all three kids completely zonked!!!!  There is no way they would have made it for the fireworks!

A typical Canada Day for this family full of lots of fun and hopefully "core" memories were made!!!!!!