A Day at the Cattle Auction

I had soooo much fun this Saturday. Tony and I loaded up the cattle trailer and headed off to buy some calves for his mom's farm. Who knew it would be so difficult and involve so much adrenaline?? First off all we were about 40 years younger than the average person there, and it was apparent the moment that we walked in that we didn't know how it worked at all. Question: Who in the world can understand those auction guys??? Why do they have to make all those random sounds the whole time they are calling the bids? Is it just to confuse you, to prevent ackward silences, to make the crowd laugh?? It took us about an hour to figure out how it worked and then Tony started bidding. He was slow at first. He maybe raised his card for every 10th cow, but then he really got into it. I'm suprised we didn't come home with twice as many cows as we needed. It's really tricky because you bid on a per pound price and you don't know the weight until after you buy the cow. Also, they auction them in about 20 seconds so you have to make your decisions really quickly. It was so much fun! We laughed and laughed as we tried to figure it out. Here's an actual snip-it of a conversation we had while there: Tony: That's a brahma. Leslie: Yea, all brahma's are bulls so you should bid on that one. Tony: Really? Leslie: Yea, my cousins had one. Tony: Really? Because they would be extinct if they were all bulls.... Leslie: oh, right.... ha, ha, ha. That is how the conversatin went all day as we were making up things just to feel like we knew what we were talking about. We ended up buying 6 really fine looking calves (one being a brahma), and were just under our spending limit. It was so much fun!! I can't wait to go back.