Being Watched During Production

I wanted to get several cribs of wood stacked and into the garage for final stage of drying while I’m away from the farm next week. Every available minute between other tasks around the place have been devoted to the barn across the river where the splitter is set up along with several empty cribs.

During one of my sessions while I was dutifully splitting away, I looked up to see Jackson (he is the frantic, wild-child one) peacefully stretched out on a piece of cardboard that had fallen off the top of the drying cribs and was flat on the cement floor. He had such a sad look on his face, and he was framed by the slats of the wood crib. It made him look like a sad sack that was stuck in prison.

What he was actually doing was allowing the cardboard to soak up all that extra water he had accumulated while running through the rain and soggy pastures. Once his drying pad was soaked, he moved to a pile of hay that was left in the manger by the nursery cows and snuggled down for a good snooze a lot less wet than when he walked into the barn. His time for watching me as I worked came to an abrupt end.

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