I was in my office this afternoon, and kept hearing Bessie bawling her head off, over and over again. I told Nolemana we needed to go down to the pasture to see if we could figure out what she was upset about. So we drove down, and this is what we found. Auē!!! How did Kiko get out?

We immediately called Jake, but he was up in Rhododendron and couldn’t leave right away (he was on a job). So we called our next door neighbors, who came over right away to help us. They came prepared, and after walking the fence and discovering that a tree had come down over it and broken it, which is how Kiko got out, Nolemana opened the gate to let Kiko in and keep the other pīpī in, but Kiko wasn’t having any of it. He even tried to nurse through the fence!! Silly pīpī!

After that, it was a comedy, trying to get Kiko back into the pasture, though it didn’t seem very funny at the time, for sure. Bessie kept calling to him, but he kept going into our neighbors’ beautiful yard! Nolemana went into the barn to get the grain pail, hoping to entice him back in. By this time, there was a chorus of moos!

The cows followed Nolemana into the barn, so Shura went and stood by the gate while Yanno tried to herd the recalcitrant Kiko into the pasture. My job was to help herd while taking the videos. Finally, finally, Kiko decided to be a good boy and go into the pasture!

To keep the cows away from the broken fence, Nolemana and Shura put them in the small corral outside the barn to keep them from getting out again. We are always so grateful for our wonderful neighbors and love that it’s reciprocal. We provide food (from food deliveries) to needy people in their lives, and they help us with the lolo pīpī.

And lest you think that was the end of the story… nope! After dark, we heard Bessie and Lani Moo bawling again. Watdaheck? So back down to the pasture we drove. And this is what we found: Hōkū and Kiko had somehow gotten out of the corral and their moms were very upset. Naughty pīpī!

So we called Jake again, and he said he thought theyʻd be bedding down for the night and to just open the corral gate so Kiko and Hōkū could go to their moms and go night-night in the barn. So Nolemana opened the gate; I shined the high beams of my kawila so that he could see better; it was major dark out there! The calves went to their moms, and all was quiet during the night. Whew.

I think the daily hummingbird was scared off by all the commotion, because he never showed up today.