December 10th

First, the daily hummingbird!

And our daily hummingbird wannabe.

And now, as promised, here’s today’s excitement, pīpī version.

This morning, I saw Bessie up near the driveway, but didn’t think too much about it. The cows frequently come up here.

Then Lani Moo joined her.

But a couple of hours later, Nolemana hollered up to me in a panic from downstairs, “Call Jake right now!!!” “What’s wrong?” I asked. “Just call him! The cows are out!” (He tends to get easily freaked out and excited.) So I went outside onto the lānai, and yep, they were definitely out. They were right below our lānai, munching away contentedly. Volume up and you can hear them chewing.

Nolemana tried to shoo them away, but they ignored him, too.

Well, then Hōkū decided that she didn’t want to be left out. Now I could clearly see where they broke down the fence down at the opposite end of our lānai.

I squirted Bessie and Lani Moo with the hose, trying to keep them from coming up outside my office!

Fat lot of good that did!

Than Kiko came running over on the other side of the fence. Poor thing… he wanted his mama!

Jake got here with his friend Greg, and the pīpī saw Jake’s pickup and knew that grain was here. Only problem was that they couldn’t figure out how to get down there, so started bawling in frustration. Kiko wanted his mama but couldn’t figure out how to get to her! Lots of mooing was happening! Volume up!

Jake had to drive all the way up our long, steep, driveway with a full load of hay in order to get nā pīpī into the pasture. He didn’t want them to break through the fence if he’d unloaded the hay first. Jake was really smart; he brought a can of grain with him, knowing that the cows would follow him anywhere for that! Kiko followed his mama along the fence, and Greg shooed them along from behind. And they did! Bessie took her time getting over the broken fence, but Lani Moo and Hōkū jumped right over!

Then Jake and Greg got to work fixing the fence. I was glad that I’d seen where Hōkū had come from so I could tell them exactly where the broken fence was..

Jake got some posts from the old fence that he didn’t need anymore. He’d already fixed the fence behind him when the cows first came here.

After the fence was all fixed, poor Jake had to back all the way down our very long driveway. It would’ve been too hard to try and turn around with all the hay in back obscuring his view, even with mirrors and helpers.

Jake had to really drive fast through the mud at the gate in order to not get stuck. They left the gate open because he knew once the cows saw the hay they wouldn’t want to leave. It did take a few minutes for the cows to realize that the hay was really there, but once they did, they lit out for the barn.

Jake and Greg unloaded the hay into the barn. The cows were all very attentive!

After the hay was unloaded, the cows hustled into the barn to munch on the legal stuff!

So ends the pīpī advencha…hope you enjoyed it! Now that the cows have hay, they should stay in the pasture!