{"id":630,"date":"2015-01-19T14:32:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T21:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/dirtheartwitch\/?p=630"},"modified":"2015-01-19T14:32:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T21:32:22","slug":"life-with-goatsday-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/dirtheartwitch\/2015\/01\/life-with-goatsday-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Life With Goats~Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Hello mes amis. \u00a0I see that it\u2019s been 10 days since I\u2019ve posted and that is WAY too long! \u00a0The past two weeks have been very full of packing, painting, moving, unpacking, more painting, more moving, etc etc ad nauseum. \u00a0We haven\u2019t had to do this moving thing for almost 16 years and it is time- and energy-consuming and we still aren\u2019t done! \u00a0But, and here\u2019s the good news, we sprung for really good internet here, so I can neglect blogging at lightning speeds!<\/p>\n

Everybody knows that one of the main reasons we had for moving out here was to have space for goats. \u00a0I wrote some before about the girls and the interesting process by which we found them and made the deal. \u00a0Since that time, the old goat shed here on the property has been overhauled and made secure. \u00a0I went to the local feed store on Friday and talked to Manny (who was recommended by Brad, the goat guy) and bought alfalfa pellets and a a richer feed for the milking does (or just for general conditioning). \u00a0Also picked up a mineral block with selenium, which the ground around here is short of, and 2 bales of rice straw, a feed pan and a water bucket.\u00a0Got Home (here, home, yes) that afternoon and set everything up in their shed. \u00a0Yesterday we picked the girls up! \"2015-01-18<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, they\u2019d all lived most of their lives about a 5 minute drive from here. \u00a0It\u2019s nice, because the climate is the same, the air smells the same, the same plants grow on the hillsides. \u00a0I think that has made them more calm about the whole situation.<\/p>\n

Brad is a smart goat owner and had trained the girls to the leash when they were little, so it wasn\u2019t too difficult to get them from the barn to the truck. \u00a0First came Daisy (the mischievous one!) and Lilly (who\u2019s had her name changed to \u201cLibby\u201d because I just can\u2019t make my mouth call her the same name as my dog!) and we put them in the dog crates in back of the truck. \u00a0They did complain a bit, but not too much. \u00a0Drove them the 1\/2 mile between the houses and unloaded them here. \u00a0We got them into their shed and gave them a little snack and they were curious, but not upset.<\/p>\n

We drove back to the Ranch and then came the tricky part. \u00a0We needed to load up Abby and her twins, Rose and Thistle. \u00a0None of them wanted to be without the others and we had to carry the kids, so Abby kept trying to see where they were, and they kept trying to see where mom was and also where they were and also what the heck was going on here because where were Libby and Daisy and so forth. \u00a0I was surprised at how strong those little goats were! \u00a0They\u2019re really only about 35 pounds or so, but big wigglers!<\/p>\n

We put the twins in one carrier and Abby in the other and they let us know how they felt about that arrangement with loud \u201cbaa-baa\u201ds of displeasure (but even the baby complainy \u201cbaa\u201ds are so CUTE). \u00a0I was glad it was just a short trip.<\/p>\n

Getting the herd back together was clearly a comfort to them all and they showed it by immediately reasserting the \u2018butting order\u2019. \u00a0How it works, apparently, is the Libby is the Queen, but she and Abby are pretty evenly matched. \u00a0When they butted each other, you could see them both making a sort of agreement about it, kinda like pro wrestlers (\u201csports entertainers\u201d, thank you!) \u00a0They would both butt Daisy, and she in turn would butt the little ones because they are smaller than her and \u201cnanny-berries roll downhill\u201d as they say. \u00a0Abby doesn\u2019t take kindly to her kids being hit, so she chases Daisy away, and so on\u2026 This might settle out a bit when they\u2019re more used to the change of routine and scenery.<\/p>\n

So far, I have no crazy goat stories to report. \u00a0They\u2019ve mostly been wandering the hillside and eating grass. \u00a0Nobody\u2019s slipped the fence and been found jumping on the cars. \u00a0Nobody\u2019s gotten hurt. \u00a0They are just hella adorable and fascinating and beautiful and I LOVE THEM.<\/p>\n

Mother and Father of all Creatures, hear me! \u00a0I see your beauty in all things, wild and tame. \u00a0The rhythm of your love beats in every heart. \u00a0You see with every eye, however strange; you taste the world with every tongue. \u00a0Awaken our senses that we might remember you in each moment and feel our place in the Worlds. \u00a0Bless us and blessed be!<\/i><\/p>\n

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