Oxen logging

[L. Wakefield]

   semi-seriously   ;)  , 'trust' is a relative term. I don't hold with blind trust. But man (or woman) or beast- if you understand the motivations, the perceptions, and the hormones involved, you can begin to get a working handle on the limits of what you might call trust.

   With a bull, you have increasing age, hormones, recent activity, stresses and etc. Some types of behavior are hard-wired in them ('instinct') just like in all of us, and they can become killing machines.

   I fully agree with the 'don't turn your back'. It makes it hard if I'm feeding in the dark..but the bullfighter's lesson is a good one to remember. When they get that freight-train of a body moving, they got a lot of inertia. It can flatten you, but it don't turn on a dime. So I like trees in the pasture, and other cows.

   Fearless has been good so far, but he will be 2 in June, and I'm watching him close.If he gets ornery, he goes in the bull pen and his lady friends will visit him as I can time their cycles (I don't find that near as effective as free run with the bull), and he will be fattening- then it will be fare well, my friend, and into the freezer. It's the best deal I can offer him.  lw

[Swede]

 Salt, smells and hormones make me thinking some years back.
I knew there was a bunch of earwigs in my mailbox but I forget to take salt with me  every day. One sunny day when i came some steps from it I could feel a strange smell.  I found a mail from a woman I had met some times two years earlier. Now she had sent me a new "quotation". I´ve never seen some earwigs in the mailbox after that. :D

About the woman? I wasn´t intrested so I just told her the whole story. She will never forgive me so one day perhaps I´ll need salt again.

Swede.