MsDeb's Journal - Lookin Out My Back Door
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Sunday evening we said goodbye to our "loaner goats" this weekend. We had contacted our friend who owns them to let him know that Dinky was sick, that Dinky had died and that we were worried about the others. He came down this weekend with many versions of "It's not your fault." He also brought us a bottle of wine, thanked us for taking such good care of his goats..... and mowed our lawn.
He wanted to go ahead and get them back home so he could have his vet run fecals and make sure everything was ok. I believe him, but in the back of my mind it still felt like we were losing them because Dinky died. And I know that is not true.
We've had them since May and they have grown so much since then. And we both had grown so attached. David was as upset as I was to see them go. We knew they were going next month anyway. Just didn't realize it would be so hard. I mean, they are "just goats" right?
We spent a lot of time sitting with our goats yesterday afternoon. It was time we'd normally had the others out grazing so it did really help keep our minds off them and also gives us more time to spend with ours.
Still, it just wouldn't be right, if I didn't take the time to acknowledge what a wonderful, goat enabling friend we
have and to post a special goodbye to Elsa, Anna and Gody. And a special IN MEMORY of poor Dinky with her funny ear.
I also should note how thankful I am for a place that I can share this sort of thing with people who understand. I'm pretty sure my non-goat friends would be even more convinced I'm nuts.
He wanted to go ahead and get them back home so he could have his vet run fecals and make sure everything was ok. I believe him, but in the back of my mind it still felt like we were losing them because Dinky died. And I know that is not true.
We've had them since May and they have grown so much since then. And we both had grown so attached. David was as upset as I was to see them go. We knew they were going next month anyway. Just didn't realize it would be so hard. I mean, they are "just goats" right?
We spent a lot of time sitting with our goats yesterday afternoon. It was time we'd normally had the others out grazing so it did really help keep our minds off them and also gives us more time to spend with ours.
Still, it just wouldn't be right, if I didn't take the time to acknowledge what a wonderful, goat enabling friend we
have and to post a special goodbye to Elsa, Anna and Gody. And a special IN MEMORY of poor Dinky with her funny ear.
I also should note how thankful I am for a place that I can share this sort of thing with people who understand. I'm pretty sure my non-goat friends would be even more convinced I'm nuts.
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I can already see a problem. Its 42 degrees in Lawrence KS this mid-September Saturday. I know it will be double that by the end of the week but this morning, as I look out my back door, I see a very cold little Hazel and want to wrap her in a blanket or get her a sweater. Yep, this is going to be a problem.
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Got the billy pen done this weekend. Max had become very very interested in Tripod, who is probably getting close enough, and Hazel, who is just a baby! So Max and Scotchy now have bachelor quarters and the beginning of a man cave. Pic of Scotchy calling dibs on the shed and the latest "out my back door" of Max peeking in to make sure I was getting grain.
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I think you worry too much. If she hasn't been clipped then 42 degrees shouldn't bother her.
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Oh indeed. I fully admit the problem is me.
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Because I don't want to forget. (And why I wish I'd kept a journal when my children were little...sigh.)
Yesterday evening we were working on getting the tar paper on the goat shed roof, which requires trips in and out of the goat pen. We thought we could get away with just wiring the gate in the middle. WRONG! Tripod immediately sniffed it out, got down on her front knees and wriggled herself out.
Poor Hazel, who,at 3 months, is only about an inch taller than Tripod and much less than half the width, was left inside all alone!!!!
(Insert loud MAAAAAing and goat trauma drama here....
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So I unwired the gate and pulled it open a couple of feet. Hazel just stood there. I kept calling her and finally she got down on her front knees, just like Tripod had done, and crawled through the gate. Apparently it is Goat See; Goat Do around our place.
And, in the category of never having a camera when you need one, neither of us had our phones while on ladders and roof so we both missed getting a pic of Tripod trying to crawl through the roll of tar paper. She got about half way. If we hadn't given her that tapeworm medication I think she would have made it.
Never a dull moment!
Yesterday evening we were working on getting the tar paper on the goat shed roof, which requires trips in and out of the goat pen. We thought we could get away with just wiring the gate in the middle. WRONG! Tripod immediately sniffed it out, got down on her front knees and wriggled herself out.
Poor Hazel, who,at 3 months, is only about an inch taller than Tripod and much less than half the width, was left inside all alone!!!!
(Insert loud MAAAAAing and goat trauma drama here....
)So I unwired the gate and pulled it open a couple of feet. Hazel just stood there. I kept calling her and finally she got down on her front knees, just like Tripod had done, and crawled through the gate. Apparently it is Goat See; Goat Do around our place.
And, in the category of never having a camera when you need one, neither of us had our phones while on ladders and roof so we both missed getting a pic of Tripod trying to crawl through the roll of tar paper. She got about half way. If we hadn't given her that tapeworm medication I think she would have made it.
Never a dull moment!
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Just spent the past hour following a goat around with a plastic baggie waiting for her to poop. I'm thinking this is probably the only place I can post a statement like this and not be thought crazy.
