It has been a long time

I have told this story so many times in the last couple of days this one will be short and to the point.


Friday night-Simon our new miniature Hereford bull came home.  He is a year old and pretty sweet but still needs to get used to people.


Saturday morning-I am looking out the window upstairs and the horses are running from the barn to the field and back.  When they get back to the barn they look east.  Then back and forth, look....you get the idea.


Kaj goes to check on Simon and he says he isn't in the barn.  I thought he was joking.  He said I looked in the back and the front and he isn't there.  I said what about the middle and he says do you think that he is suffocating under a pile of hay.  Finally I go and check and sure enough no Simon.  He had crawled out under the gate about a foot and a half opening.  We went looking and found him down in the woods.  The first go around he was having nothing to do with going back to the barn or even letting anyone get close to him to tie him on a lead rope.  I went in and did dishes and thought I know I can get him in.  So I went back out and found him and he didn't even get up when I got close and put the lead on him.  Then it was a matter of pulling and heaving and he would move a bit and stand and wait and pull and then he would move some more.  So we did that and as we got closer to the barn the horses were still doing their running back and forth and look to the east.  Just as I was getting close to the round pen Tara runs down to the field and jumps the fence breaks it with her back leg and Romeo just bulls right through.  So far so good Lucky hadn't figured out the fence was broken yet.  I am so close to the round pen and the horses are still in the yard.  Then Lucky figures out the fence is down and he is out.  Just 5 more feet to the round pen.  The horses are at the corner (in my mind please go do Danny's house please) not a chance they head up the road.  Finally I get Simon in the round pen which wasn't too long and I take the lead rope and head for my car.  I didn't even tell Kaj I was leaving.  I didn't know where he was and I just wanted to catch the horses and I figured they couldn't be far.  (By the way Skinner was in Esko returning the Simon trailer) so I take off and I am not seeing any tracks.  I go across the gunlint because I see some people outside moving into their new home and ask if they saw the horses and they said they headed down the gunflint to town.  So I start driving and I am looking into the woods on either side of the road and looking down side roads.  I see a car that has its flashers on and I figure that has to someone warning of horses.  Sure enough I catch up to them at the bottom of the cemetery road but were they going to stop nooooooooooooo!  They were stampeding down the Gunflint on either side of the road, at one point weaving through traffic that had thankfully stopped.  I am trying to cut them off with my car and they wouldn't let me.  I was driving on the left hand shoulder following them and finally at Pinchusion I was able to make them turn in there and not go running all the way to town.  But then we had to go find them on the Pinchusion trails!  The people that had stopped to help me found the horses(down at the old city dump) and brought them to the parking lot had to go to their appointments and I had Tara and I said Lucky and Romeo won't go far because I have Tara.  Famous last words.  Skinner finally arrived in complete disbelief at what the horses had done.  So he went to go look for Lucky and Romeo.  Just before that Grandpa Jim had gone and picked up Kaj and they were already out looking for the other two.  So another hour later we had given up on finding Lucky and Romeo.  I talked to some hikers that were head out and about 5 minutes later I hear them yelling and they found Lucky and Romeo back at the dump part.  So long story short.  Everyone is on lock down back at WE Farms!