Day: March 28, 2017

One Project That I Worked On, What Steps I Took To Make It Succesful, And How It Relates To The Crusaders

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When you first see this you may be thinking what a strange and random writing assignment this is. I agree, it is very strange and random. However, I look at this as my teacher saying that its time to take writing assignments up a notch, to a more difficult level. And he most definitely has taken writing assignments to a whole new level.

Living on a farm means that there are no shortages of projects or chores to do. So finding a project is easy enough. The one that I have chosen is moving cattle from one field to another.

Moving cattle is easier said then done, you think that it will be easy enough until you actually let them out and start moving them. I remembered this from past projects so we took certain steps to block other passages that the cows may want to go through, we also cleared moved anything that may cause the cows to go the other way (such as one of our dogs).

After blocking of passages and moving dogs around, we still had to move the cows across a clearing of grass. Of course we couldn’t block off such a large space with the resources around us, so we had to drive the cows along and make sure that none strayed away.

Cows are funny creatures, they react to things depending on how close they are. So we had to make sure that we were at the right distance from them, but close enough to keep them in line.

So with all of these steps complete, blocking of passages, clearing a safe way for them to go, and placing people at the right spots to keep them in line, we started to move the cows.

I remember that things went smoothly for the fist part of the move, but at the second part, about half way to where they needed to be… one of our calves (rusty is his name) decided that the grass was greener around 10 yards away to the right. If you have any experience with moving cows, you will know that when one goes, they all go. So soon Rusty was followed by his mom, who was followed by her friend, and so on.

So, with the cows veering off from the path, the closest person jumped a bit too soon to stop them, this caused too much pressure on the cow, which made them start running.

Like in looney tunes we chased them around for about a half of an hour before they got back on track. And after that, they got where they needed to be without any more trouble.

I believe that this links to the crusades in the issues of tactics and trial and error. Tactics are always important during times of war, just as they are in moving cattle. Trial and error is something that happens in war, you try to take the city, but it ends up as a failure, just like you try to have things go smoothly while moving cattle, but the cow wants to go the other way.