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"It'll Just Take a Minute"

 Here I am; back by popular demand, more or less.  I have missed blogging, and since I can't really get settled into a different blogging platform and didn't want to lose this blog altogether, I have just decided to continue on.   Here is a story I had meant to write during the first year or two of this blog but somehow never got around to writing.  Just this month I pulled this story out of my memory and worked it over a bit.  So here it is.  Enjoy! "It'll Just Take A Minute" One spring day, that first year we were married, I wandered outside to watch Gary move a cow with her new calf into the holding lot behind the milk barn.  He was driving the 4-wheeler with the calf in a little trailer behind; leading the cow across the field.     When he got to the gate he saw me and hollered; “Hey, come help me.  It will only take a minute.”   Good one.  Anyone who has lived on a farm knows that random chores seldom t...