Have just checked the calving heifers.  It is a beautiful evening with a light breeze out of the northwest, 22 degrees, and overcast skies but the moon and stars are visible.  It's a time bomb waiting to go off (both the weather and the tight bagged heifers).  :wink:

Our night man got back from a little trip yesterday afternoon.  He will rest all day today, and be ready to assume duty tonight.  This is the third year he has night-calved for us, and he worked here full time from 1988-1992.  He has been fencing and doing shop work since last November, and hopefully will hang around to do some more fencing next spring.  Nobody in the world does a better job building box corners and gates than does he.  He's definitely a loner and pretty well hates people.  Back when he worked here full-time, we'd go to a branding and right after dinner he'd go sit in the pickup, all but honking the horn wanting me to get going.  While working cattle through the chutes, he'd holler at them, "Get the heck a-going, stand around tomorrow."  That has always been his motto.  :wink: