I am in sooooo much trouble with Ginger and it is all Hammies fault.    A few weeks ago Ole Hammie the cow snuck up on Ginger   and tried to gore her with his horns so ginger says "Richie time to call the butcher"   Well I chimed in "sure thing love" and ole Hammie ran about his business.  Then last week Ginger was checking on the Chickens and she looked over and there was Hammie up the pathway into the raised bed garden.  Yep, he was out again!  So Ginger starts heading around the shop to make it into the house to tell me.  When she couldn't find me in the house she made her way back outside and then ran into me.  She told me Hammie was out, so I headed out round him up.  Well I chased him back down the path from the garden and then he spotted Ginger and started running over to her to give her a big cowlick.  Ginger ran and hid inside one of the chickenyards.  

 I finally got him to play chase with me and he ran after me into the corral and I locked him in.  It is tricky playing chase though cause Hammie is a large steer and when he runs up to you and jumps and twists in midair and kicks his hind legs and tries to shove you around with his head, he could easily knock you down.  Well again Ginger says "Richie, call the butcher" and again  "Sure thing love". 

Well today I dropped by the house to pick up a tool from the storage barn and when I pulled up the driveway the new baby goat was out munching on grass alongside the driveway so I do like I always do and pull up behind her and layed down on the horn.   That little goat took off running alongside the fence trying her best to find a way back inside the field.  When she reached the goat hut in she runs.  My helper and I jumped out of the truck and grabbed the goat and put her over the fence.  About that time Kevin notices that there is a big cow patty inside the goat hut and a section of the fence is all pushed down.  So I tell him Hammie is out and we pulled the truck around onto the parking pad and then headed around by the barn to find Hammie. 

  After looking in the corral and in Hammie's field we finally found him up in the raised bed garden munching on morning glories.   So Kevin and I try to go round him up.  Well he didn't want to go so we took turns pushing him and jumping on his back and he would take off running down the path till he was down by the chickenyards.  But he didn't want to go back in his corral. So he pushes us aside and heads over to the front side of the chickenhyards and toward the front yard.  I grab a scooper and scoop up some chicken scratch and head out to the front yard and Hammie has pushed Kevin up against the butterfly bush and isn't letting him out, so I show him the scoop of scratch corn and he gets him and good taste of it and that peaks his interest.  So he starts following me or should I say pushing me down the pathway next to the barn and Kevin goes ahead and opens the gate and in he goes and we got him all locked up.  After fixing the fence and noticing that Hammie has also been running through the flower beds up by the pool and over by the pond, we headed off to work. 

When I got home Ginger had already been there and she met me around by the garden and gave me a look and says "You know what you are supposed to do"  I innocently looked at her and said. "what"   and she says " I know Hammie has been out"  Oops busted! I forgot to clean up the cow patty in the goat hut.  Well I told her Hammie was penned up in the corral.  She wouldn't have to worry about ole Hammie. See I says and I climb into the corral with him and Hammie heads over to me and starts lowering his head down to try and shove me.  I push him away but he insists so I run for the fence and climb out of the corral.   I had been Hammie-nized.   Oh well tomorrow I will call the Butcher and set up a date.   Time for dinner Hammie......  ...fresh hamburger and steak...sure will be good!