Plans Kept Changing

Plan A

Someone does the bedtime barn check.

Paul does the midnight check when he gets home after work.

Ben does the 3:00 a.m. check before he goes to plow.

All calves that are to be born today do so after 6:30 a.m.

That was changed to Plan B

when Paul found out he needed to stay at work until 4:00 a.m.

I got the midnight check 

and the rest of The Plan would remain the same.

I did the midnight check at 11:40 when I woke up

and we moved to Plan C.

All was fine in the barn with Miss Kitty, the one we were watching.

But Ellie Mae was mooing out in the pasture.

So I went out to check on her and found a wee little one.

So I went back to the house 

to get Luke and Elsie up 

so we could move the calf to the shop 

and get her warmed up.

We put her back in the barn with her mom

and got back in the house around 12:30.

I went out again at 1:00 

and then got Ben up at 1:45 

so we could get a coat on her before he left.

The clock changed 15 minutes later and suddenly it was 3:00 a.m.

We put the coat on and fed her part of a bottle

and Ben left to plow.

I went out again at 6:00

to find she had the coat mostly off.

At least she was breathing better,

but she was still cold and not totally cleaned up.

Luke, Elsie, and Hannah went out to get her up and eating.

And then Luke left to start plowing because

this snow and wind just won't stop!

So welcome to the world Baby Ruth!