Last night the mancattle were even crazier than last week. The Hobbosses say the mancattle are particularly sensitive to the movement of the moons around Louise 6e, and last night was a real doozy. All twelve were out when I got woken up by the weirdest mooing and lowing I'd ever heard from the beasts.

The Hobbosses had left the campfire again, and I made it out to the same flat field I'd found them in before. The Hobbosses had them all rounded up in a circle, but this time the mancattle were wild and snarling and in some kind of feeding frenzy! Leaping over each other and ripping and tearing and growling at each other with the most loathsome howls you ever heard.

I stared and watched it for a spell (from a healthy distance of course) and turned back in when I'd had enough. It was gruesome.

This morning the mancattle were real quiet and lazy. Slept for half the morning. And a lot of them had stains on the mouths of both heads.

Couldn't sleep tonight, curled up on my bedroll around the dying campfire. Louise 6e was looming large, and you could see a good six moons doing their dance. I think it was the lowing of the mancattle woke me up. Sometimes they make those noises at night, but tonight it was especially odd. And then I noticed all the Hobbosses were all missing. Usually they snore up a storm, but there weren't any to be seen.

So I picked myself up and followed the lowing, and over a small rise or two I saw the strangest thing I've seen so far on the low gravity prairie.

The Hobbosses had the mancattle all rounded up, but the mancattle were acting real strange. Lined up in circles, concentric-like, each ring walking in the opposite direction. But the worse part was THEY WERE STANDING UP ON TWO LEGS!! Kind of swaying back and forth, lowing in a rhythm, their big pairs of horned heads bobbing back and forth.

The Hobbosses never mentioned anything like that before, and I had a feeling there was a reason. I snuck back to my bedroll and closed my eyes and pretended to sleep till dawn.

But seriously WTF???

I thought my yodeling skills might keep me out of having to work the mancattle drive but no such luck. The Hobbosses must be sweet on me, and now they keep needling me to yodel around the campfire at night. The Hobbbosses laugh and their big rolls of fat jiggle like jello.

I feel like I'm getting too attached to the mancattle though. How much longer will I enjoy eating them? They look up at you with their two heads and their dopey eyes and I swear they look almost human.

But that mancattle meat is mighty sweet.

I'm happy to say the hoedown did not disappoint! Orion roots music band, great food (can't get enough of that mancattle! Mancattle ribs, mancattle flank steak... sentient beans...) and group dancing is actually really really fun why don't we do that more back home? It was four-dimensional hypercube dancing, but you gotta be careful not to brush up against the slicegrass bails.

@Shae there was a shy girl there with red hair, freckles, pale skin, and void eyes. Maybe that's your friend?

The Hobbosses are mean. I know we're supposed to be learning by being part of a working space dude ranch, but this part of it is just a little too "authentic" for me.

It's true the mancattle can be dangerous, and they've shown us the holo of what happened to ol' Sid so many times it doesn't even make me nauseous anymore. But there's other ways to treat us to be safe around them than just screaming at us all the time.

I've been on a five day mancattle drive, riding kponies, driving the mancattle to fresh slicegrass fields. Sleeping on the ground (well, the ground without slicegrass) and ok the night sky is really awesome, and the ground isn't so hard on account of the low gravity. But I'm sure looking forward to the big welcome-back hoedown they keep talking about.

So I'm signed up. But how do I get to this Ranch?

Haven't seen @Ludmila Schneeflocke since the Teen Ice Giants dance and wanted to invite her to the Ostara Gala, but all that is left in her dorm room is a damp spot on the rug. Her roommate hasn't seen her for weeks. I guess I had kind of a heavy crush because I'm heartbroken. Why didn't I try to talk to her again sooner?

I got an invite to the Teen Ice Giants dance, and am taking @Ludmila Schneeflocke. She loves the snow so much and I'm learning to love the cold just I can see her more.

Sure, she's tall, but that is just a coincidence. I mean, not Teen Ice Giant tall. You have to say alert at their dances so as you don't get stepped on.

Sure is cold here. I'm used to seeing my breath in 7-11s, but not in libraries and cafeterias. I heard they are keeping it cold to accommodate the visiting clan of teen ice giants.