This weekend we said goodbye to our goats, Chester, Friendy and Caramel. After five years it was time to allow them to move on to greener pastures. They have gone to live at HillShrine Farm where hopefully they will enjoy a bigger place to roam, more regular feeding than distracted teenagers can give them, and a lot more attention as it is open to the public as a petting farm on Saturdays. Grant is the saddest to see them go as we will now have to figure out what to do with all of our weeds and lawn clippings. I am excited to plant pumpkins in their pen which is probably the most fertile spot on the planet. Or maybe the droppings are too fresh and the plants will just burn up? Either way, it will be a fun experiment. And it will be nice not to nag kids to feed/water anymore. At any rate, it was a good five years. Wait…I’m not being completely honest here. Truthfully, I couldn’t stand them. They were annoying, stubborn, crafty, menaces to the neighborhood. They ate everything in site, chewed through fences, escaped at every possible opportunity, ate Anna’s hair and dresses every time she came near them and they were even miserable failures as fainting goats! They hardly ever fainted!!!
Needless to say, I shed no tears at their parting.
Notice Anna is standing where neither hair, nor dress could be devoured by the devils
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