Rodeo at the Zesch Household

Most of you know that we have lots of animals around here, that is no surprise. What some of you might not know is that we have 11 heifers here right now. Today while everyone was getting school done the kids(Jimmie, Michael, Matthew, and Stella) were playing outside. That is a regular occurrence, so there was no surprise there, what was surprising is what they were doing. Jimmie was trying to rope a heifer !!
He, unfortunately for the heifer, succeeded in roping it and the rodeo began.
Joshua had been watching from his bedroom window while doing math. LOL Jimmie lured the heifer in with some cow cake on the ground close to him. He had one end of the rope tied around a trailer and swung his loop around the heifer. Got him! He has been telling mom for several weeks he was going to rope a heifer so he could ride it. Joshua, while doing math, saw the rope loop around the heifers neck and ran outside to help. The boys could not get the rope off the heifer, so Joshua sent Jimmie in to get some more help. Jimmie came and got me and I ran outside to help, not stopping even to get shoes. I tried to get the rope off her neck and then decided that I would need someone a little stronger and more experienced than the little kids to assist me, so I asked Matthew to go get Jenny which he promptly did.
When Jenny came out Mommy decided to come out to and bring the camera. So with all the new help we dallied to a tree and finally the heifer let me get close enough that I could grab the rope and slowly pull it over its head.
After that Jenny, Joshua, and Joy very quickly ate lunch so they could leave to go to town for piano.

Just another day in the Zesch household.
Here are some pictures of the event.




Annie