The Riendeau Family: Thanksgiving 2012

Thanksgiving has came and gone. We had a pretty good day. It was hard without daddy, but we tried to make the best of it. A special person called and talked to me because they had daddy on their mind and they just wanted to talk to me. Mr. Don was a very special man in daddy's life and in ours. Meant a lot to me that when he thought of daddy he thought of me. Tony went early and fed the cows. When he got to the interstate cow pasture he found that one of our best cows had died. She had had a baby a few days before and she must of had trouble afterwards because her uterus had came out. We had seen her the day before but she looked fine. It's always hard when you lose an animal, but it's just part of life when you have animals. Can't let it get you down you can't change what happen. We ate dinner at Aunt Linda's with the Gantt family. It was different without daddy there with us. Normally I would catch him getting a straw out of Aunt Linda's cabinet and give him a hard time about being nosey. Then when it was time to leave it felt different not talking to him to see what he had planned when he got home. When we got back Tony took the tractor with the bucket back to the interstate pasture to bury the cow. He seen the baby was sneaking milk from other mama cows. Since no stores were open up town because of Thanksgiving we waited until the next day to get milk replacer for the little calf. After Tony got back I cooked food for us, Mama, Josie, Billy, & Holden. They each brought different foods to eat. We all enjoyed Thanksgiving in the trailer at our chicken houses. It's small in the trailer but it works.