Queen Mum's Dancing in the Rain

[Queen Mum]

I was thinking last night, I should call her Pecan Sandy (Like the Keebler Elves) because she is a Texas goat - famous for pecans. She reminds me a bit of an elf. We have another one who is an Amber. (a name I really like.) We also have a goat that I already call Cookie Monster. (Sorry RTG.)

Houdini is a goat with an attitude. He just cracks me up. When he was spraying himself with Houdini Perfume, he was standing on three legs on that pallet. Like it was nothing to be up there. I can hardly wait to get a picture of him all majestic and "manly", head up and looking royal.

He didn't look so royal and majestic last night huddled in the barn under Mama's belly shaking like a leaf in fear of the thunder and lightning. It was TOO cute. Mama was standing there chewing her cud and eating hay like it was nothing. But Brownie and Houdini were looking pretty scared. I have found his Achilles heal.

 

[jodief100]

I love Houdini. If you ever decide he needs a new home send him my way. He would love my LaMancha Jazzie and her beautiful daughters, Bayou and Dixie.

 

[Queen Mum]

When it rains it pours and hails and all hail breaks loose around here. The fencing job the farmhand did in the upper paddock held... for the most part, but some of it came down because a few rocks just floated away. Now one of the goats is stuck up there in the hunting pasture. I can't figure out how to get her back in. One of the rocks washed down and left a little one way hole. The goats can crawl under one way, if they are small enough, but they can't crawl back.

My water/flood way worked pretty well and all but one paddock kept the goats and dogs high and dry this morning. That one, the shelter fell apart because the tarp wasn't secure. Poor girls were out in the rain huddled against the side of the barn for protection. I guess I had better get to it today when the landlord gets back.

I went out to check on everyone this morning when the sun came out and Holy Ghost, i was mobbed for cookies. And everyone let me pat them and brush them. Everyone, that is but Jelly Bean.

I had better get busy making about 1000 more cookies. I have about 300 of them left, but At this rate they are not going to last given that we have 60 goats. I'm going to have to get a smaller ice cream scoop.

 

[Queen Mum]

Thats it. I give up!

 

[autumnprairie]

psst! Please may I have secret goat cookie recipe so maybe my boys will love me too, like my girls do.


you give up?
How about you your boy with no name call him George, as in you pet him and love him and call him George?

 

[77Herford]

The last one made me think, Peanut.

 

[Queen Mum]

I have a degree in physics, chemistry and calculus. My last year of school, my professors sat me down and told me that I should not work in my chosen field because of my general clumsiness because I was a danger to the public at large. While I was in college a number of accidents occured where my whole department had to be rescued from the lab because of me. (I attempted suicide that night.) As a result I studied Neuropsychology at a graduate level. After college I had an 8 year career as a paramedic, worked as a firefighter for several years during that time and as a hostage negotiator 4 years as a vet tech, and I worked in the medical field, . Then I raised two sons who are grown now. I also have an adopted daughter.

I am extremely clumsy and have had some serious accidents including falling out of a 3rd story window onto my head on pavement. I was battered by my kids father. So we hid from him and I lived in poverty for years. When my kids grew up I worked as a teacher in Korea for 5 years. But before that I worked as an educational/legal advocate. I have never made any money at it.

I am also handicapped. I have epilepsy from falling out of the window and I also have asthma, diabetes, tourettes syndrome and aspergers syndrome. But because of my handicaps, I am odd. I also have a high IQ. It's a handicap. I have a phenomenal memory. (aspergers does that to you.)


I have a memory like a trap. When I explain something it is textbook. I don't like arguments. I am sick of arguments. I don't like people who are nasty and vindictive and angry. I don't like people who are snitty and snotty and angry.



My last place of residence foreclosed (I was a renter and I had to move.) So I moved to Texas. But my trailer fell apart on the way here and everything I own including my clothes, and food got left behind in Washington State. And I am stuck here. In a tiny little room. My world has slowly shrunk until there is nothing left but this tiny little room.

I don't get to see my kids, I don't get to see my grandkids. My friends are all in Washington. I thought I could start over here and make new friends, but the people I am living with are either angry or depressed or hysterical and who drink too much. The least little thing sets them off. It's drama all the time around here. And they are horrible bigots. One of them is violent. and get this!

My animals don't judge me. They don't call me a liar. They don't question what I do. They don't demand to know what book I read it in. But they are healthy and happy and they look at me every day and are doing well.

I'm going back to them.

I give up.

 

[elevan]

Reading your post makes it clear that you are a strong person - a survivor. Give up? From what you just posted it sounds like you're not a quitter. I hope you're able to find a position soon that allows you to get out of your current situation.

 

[autumnprairie]

I wish I could afford and had the room to have you move here

 

[jodief100]

I knew there was a reason I liked you. A survivor, given gifts that can be curses and you have made the best of them. I read that statement and I realize, with worse luck that life could have been mine and I do not think I could have survived it. I too am very clumsy with a debilitatingly high IQ.

I was blessed with wonderful grandparents who taught me well, which made up for a mother who was ashamed of her clutsy daughter. I worked as a paramedic when I couldn't get into PT school after my Biology degree and then figured out Grandaddy was right I am better with machines than people so I got my engineering degree.

I wish so much you could have had my good fortune that things could have turned as well for you. If we had the money to hire you, I would invite you here in a second. I could learn so much from you.

Things will get better, because you will make them so.