Of Kid Tales, Counter Tales, and Tale Cutter

This morning, just for fun, I walked up to the barn to see what Crazy Patsy was doing.  I found her with the little billy outside the lot in tall wet grass.  Billy was soaking wet and his sister was nowhere in sight.  I went around to the other side of the barn and found her in the shed.  Since the billy was so wet and weak I decided to bring them down here and lock them in the chicken pen.

Then we made this area in the back of the shop, where Mama can get in but babies cannot get out.  She finally came around and Helen made the baby cry, she is good at that, so Mama would get in the pen with them.  That was around 11 this morning.  I wanted to take a picture of them together to show the brown one is so much bigger than the billy, but you can not really tell for the pictures.

I just can't get over how much difference there is in the size of the two.

We went to Springdale and after we got back, I went to see about the babies.  Mama obviously had left right after we did and had not returned for 6 hours.  I got her back to them, and they are looking good now.  Of course, when she leaves, she will forget where she left them.  We are going to try to sell all the billies Saturday, and then she will only have to nanny to loose.

And, now for the counter tale.  Remember the bar top I got from Lowes?  It was warped, really, really warped.  When I called them they said bring it back and we will reorder.  On June first, I did just that.  They called and said the new counter was in, so I went up Sunday to get it.  Well, not only was the 'new' counter also warped, it was not new.  It was the same one I took back to them.  I know because I suspected they might try that, so I marked it in such a way as to not be obvious to others, such as Lowes' employees. After about and hour and much hem hawing, they said I could take it home and try it.  If I wanted to keep it then, I could have a full refund. Or, I could have a full refund and reorder again.  I decided on free.  But, when I called yesterday, and spoke with Renee, she said she would refund my money first thing tomorrow and call me.  I am at a lose as to why it had to be tomorrow, but whatever.  When I got home today and checked my caller ID, not Renee call.  I called them and spoke with Sandy who said Renee had already gone home, and no she could not just look in the computer to see if the money had been refunded, but she would get a manager to check and call me back.  After 30 minutes, when there was no call back.  I called and spoke to the store manager.  In about 15 minutes he called back to say I had a refund.  Then, while I was out with the goats, Sandy called and left a message about the refund.  So, I have a free warped bar top.  Junior, when he has time, is supposed to try to straighten it a some before we actually attach it to the cabinet.

The Cutter is  here.