This is the reason that the blog has been on hold for a few weeks.

We had to get this nose ring out and this is a crazy cow.   He would
not be caught by any of our usual methods.

So, all of our time and energy has gone into building this....we had to
catch that cow, even if it meant spending a month building a pen and
loading ramp.

So that we could get the cow penned up and remove the nose ring.

Happy to report that it worked.  We built the pen and loading chute that
we should have built 20 years ago.

Well, Kent and Tyler built it, with help from Joel when he could make
time.

I did some major sweating over the design though, and helped a bit
here and there.  Oh, and Papa sawed some of the lumber for us.

Last year's October was a halcyon period for Kent and me.  This October
was tedious.  Now to enjoy November.