"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 take “just a minute.” Odd,time-consuming things tend to ha