olgentdc
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wisht I woulda put this post in Your Stories,.. I think most will agree after reading this ,../if anyone knows how tell me ok ,. tonite ,I am melancholy pretty bad ,, I found Ginger down when I went to feed at noon , she had been doing just fine . pneumonia,. I went back and got some 72-200,. gave her 30 ccs and made her comfortable best I could with some cornstover ,. went to corydon 13 miles to get penicillin and talk with feed store folx,.. by the time I got back to her side ,.. Ginger's life was all gone ,. she had a white sockt calf about the 1st week in dec ,. this last sept,. I sold off 3 old cows, and I really should have included Ginger but she always was a fall calver , and I chose to keep her , and she had a pretty red heifer with sockt feet and a white blaze ..So it it is just as well ,. she deserved a natural death ,. instead of becoming McDonald yuppi meals ,. She was the Gentle Voice of the ENTIRE herd ,.. the bull mourned for her and cussed at me as I pulled her out of the pasture,.. Ginger lost her own mother shortly after birth ,. she was given to my pal and friend Rick Easter sunday , spring of 1998,. he recalls bottle feeding her in the old shed he tore down in 1999 and built his barn -shop the following summer,.. when he suggested her age last fall , I protested his accuracy, and declared Ginger is the picture of health! .He said my barn Shop has been there since summer of 99 and I bottle fed Ginger in the old shed a yr or perhaps 2 before that ,. perhaps even 1997,.. I bought Ginger from Rick fall of 2006 , she had raised him 4or 5 calves and was real buket baby ,and would remain so all her days . I had just lost the election for what would had been my 2nd term as Harrison county Commissioner ,. it was a close hard fought run , and a lot of terrible lies were being said about me ,,..I was kinda down in the dumps for getting beat ,, I remember appreciating the change of pace and feeling a bit upbeat when Rick and I agreed on her price,.he Had taken a job that would take him away from his place during the week,.his wife Birdie could handle the minture horses and Lady ,. but Ginger really needed to meet Cow friends,.. and most of all ,she needed a bull,. and that is how she became a fall calver , Tonite Rick Agreed to accept Gingers heifer as a gift from sara and i to bottle feed her on the hope that one day he would sell her to me to put back with the herd as a good momma cow ,. so everything will continue full circle . it is Sad to Lose a good old friend .and Then . tonite , they announced another old friend passed away at 95yrs young , MILTON METZ ,Long time Louisville News Anchor.. we had the pleasure of meeting Milton when his wife came over to our table at KiNg Fish ,.she was attracted by Dianna and complimented her for the way she handled our babies ,. Mikey could not had been much over a yr old , and Elizabeth was perhaps almost 3 ,. when Milton came over in his spiffy sport suit,. it was just " like meeting Santa Claus ,. we exchanged names and chatted, we could tell they were genuine family love type of people ,.. fast fff today ,. Elizabeth just turned 36 yrs old on Elvis's birthday,. little mikey is now Michael and is runnin the home improvement biznez i founded before I married their mother,.. and I tonite I sip peach brandy,REMINSCING .recalling the wonderful love I had with the mother of my 4 children ,thanking God for my wonderful Sara ,. surviving cancer ,. my happenstance of being in the rite place at the rite time ,. giving me Great opportunities of a lifetime that shaped my life , and even saving my life in a split second more than once ,. my bulls over the yrs and cows that Were almost an equal to good Ol Ginger, my good Dogs and barn cats,.and all my old iron I have mastered to run so well . But most Of All The many good Friends here ,.. many I have met, that are so much like like Rick and my other neighbor Rick and just being thankful for life and peace and love I have known in so many ways ,and FAMILY . In all of lifes sadness and hardships , sometimes it hurts so much a man can scarcely shed a tear ,. but yet all in all,. life is still a thrill in spite of itself