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Friday Adventure on Mandy’s Farm

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For those that haven’t heard already, I started a new farm job a month ago. (Wow, time has flown by! I thought it was only 3 weeks ago!) It’s been fun and challenging at times. But mostly enjoyable and doing what I love while getting paid.  It’s called Mandy’s Farm (after the owner’s last name) and he has sheep, pigs, yaks, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and is getting two donkeys in November. Since he works near the city during the week, he has hired me to take care of the animals.  Anyways, this Friday was quite the adventure!  I was trying to get the sheep to come get their feed. McGregor wasn’t listening very well, and decided to chase them.  They spooked and jumped over the electric fence into the larger field where two of the two yaks are! 🤦‍♀️  And because I’m not supposed to be alone with the yaks, I had to get the tractor, which was over in the other far field with the rest of the yaks. They saw me start the tractor & all came over to investigate. Meanwhile, McG