Hi-Line Living: Cow cameras

Two minutes: That's about how long it took Heidi Nystrom to notice a newborn calf stuck in its sack, realize no one else saw the situation, and run to the barn to save the calf.

Nystrom was drinking a cup of coffee at the main house when she saw the problem on the video feed from a system of cow cameras installed earlier this year by Triangle Communications.

"I'm waiting, I'm calling, panicking," Nystrom said.

Then she saw steam in the corner of one of the camera's views. Her son, Kaleb, who was closest to the imperiled calf, was in the barn apartment's shower.

That's when she forsook her coff...