My Mom said to me "I don't know how you can go into someone else's barn and not have it worry you". I told her "when I walk in there I assume it is MINE and do things accordingly, just like I did when we had cows". When I told our vet that we were going to do it, I said to him "Milking is NOT one of my favorite things to do, but the reason I hated it so much when WE had our own was the fact that I NEVER got out of the barn. With doing relief milking, I know there will be an end and when it is. Besides, even tho it isn't my favorite job, I'm damn good at it". He said "Yes, you are".
In fact, I even travel to milk..............3 years in a row I had a gig in New York. She flew me out (and back the first year, the 2nd year my SU drove out and went to the NASCAR race at Watkins Glen, then came to the farm afterwards and helped me, then we drove home). I stayed in her house and house-sat; I had a vehicle to drive till the SU got there. All I had to do was milk and we mowed yard. I baked for her and filled one big shelf in her feezer. She paid me cash!
