O/T The Box Stall

Posted by Michael Soldan on March 12, 2006 at 08:46:38 from (24.235.41.226):

Welp, yesterday I decided that I had to separate some calves, move some cows and release my maternity ward for the next birth. I convinced the cow and calf to follow me out of the box stall but they paniced and turned around and went back in. I just leaned against the gate and talked to her and after a few minutes the calf came out, then the cow followed. Well it was time to clean up the pen and then it was"Deja Vue all over again" as Yogi Berra used to say. Suddenly it was Saturday morning 42 years ago and there I was forking out the box stall just as my Dad had told me to do. Dad had a way of knowing what I had been up to the night before and the reward for being late or consuming alcohol was "Better be up early ,you have a box stall to clean out in the morning" Those darned box stalls were cleverly designed by Dads to straighten up their boys. The reason I say this is that they were usually not accessable by tractor and bucket and you had to fork them out by hand. Well I havent changed the barn much since I took over the place and that may be something I need to do down the road Anyway I was 16 years old yesterday forking out the box stall and 58 when I got it done what a feeling like Dad was still there in the barn watching that I got it done properly, scraped clean to the cement and swept...and oh, yeah I had a few barley pops the night before. Now I am pretty sure that you guys had a box stall too and that's how your Dad made a man out of you so God bless all your Dads and the Box Stalls. There's a lot of young people out there that could sure use a Box Stall and their father's love and wisedom, it takes cleaning one out 42 years later to understand it fully the way your Dad did...Mike in Exeter Ontario PS I might keep the Box Stall as is, I have two young'un grandsons

Replies:

• Re: O/T The Box Stall SGT K 23:38:47 03/12/06 (0)
• Re: O/T The Box Stall Jimmy King 14:46:54 03/12/06 (0)
• Re: O/T The Box Stall Fawteen 12:37:04 03/12/06 (0)
• Re: O/T The Box Stall Steven@AZ 10:06:04 03/12/06 (0)
• Re: O/T The Box Stall the tractor vet 09:13:58 03/12/06 (1)
  • Re: O/T The Box Stall Dick Davis 01:25:01 03/13/06 (0)

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