The late bloomer

We went over to our old property to work on some stuff and to check on the cows the other day.  Hubby asked, "why are there 6 cows instead of 5?"  After taking a better look, there was a new calf and it was trying to nurse from his/her momma, Peanut Butter.  All along we were expecting her to give birth to a calf like a few months ago but when that didn't happen we thought Peanut Butter loss her baby or something.  Needless to say we were very very surprised when we saw the calf the other day but we are so happy and excited to see this little calf.  I don't know what it is about little calves they're just so cute and you get the same excitement every time you see it no matter how many times you've already seen it (at least for us it is the case).  We are guessing the calf was probably born the same day when we went out to the property.

We haven't figured out if it's a boy or a girl yet.  So no name for this calf as yet.

Meet the newest edition of our Dexter herd.

No name for this little calf yet

Isn't she cute?

Harvey

This post is about a month late.  I'm sure everyone by now has already heard about Hurricane Harvey (among other major named hurricanes and tropical storms this year) and the destruction it has caused, particularly in Texas.  Harvey is no friend to Texas.  It has caused so much damages and devastation for so many people.  For most people in my area, as always, we suffered a lot of flood damages.  I personally know of quite a few people who just barely got over the last flood we had in our area and finally put their homes back together, and wham it got hit again 15 months after the last flood in May of last year.  I know of quite a few houses in our area who got water all the way up to their second floors.  We had A LOT of water dumped on us in just a matter of a few days.  Even more than last year...A LOT more...It was so insane!

Fortunately, after we got flooded last May we decided not to rebuild on our old property.  Luckily we weren't living there when Harvey came because this time the water went up way higher than last time.  We only got 3-4 feet of water inside our house last May.  But this time it went all the way up to the roof.  And before Harvey moved into our area we moved all of our cows to a friend's property where it was high and dry so our herd of cattle was safe.  Thank goodness!

If you look closely you can see the water line
That's how high the water went up this time.
This picture was taken 2-3 days after Harvey
left our area and before the water receded.

Looks like the water actually lifted the whole house up.
The house definitely got shifted.

This is where our shed used to sit

But after the flood we found it in our barn.  This big ole' shed
floated into our barn.

Looking at our shed (now sitting in our barn) from a different angle

Inside our old house.  Ceiling and insulation is ruined

Horse stall didn't survive the flood

Play set and picnic table in our front yard,
but floated into our front pasture

There was a water tank attached to the water pump that was
sitting on top of this shelf/stand before the flood.  But it
floated away.  We later found it in one of our pastures.

Our neighbors down the street had to rip out their homes and
throw away all of their belongings, once again.  So sad.

There are areas where the county was not able to go to and pick
up all the debris and trash from the flooding.

So they set up a temporary dump site for people to take their flood
debris and trash to 

Look at the amount of trash and debris people dumped.  Big
piles after big piles of them!