We timed it and we have the whole process down to 40 minutes from when we get to the barn to when everyone is dressed and geared up and out the gate. Impressive. We are getting better at goat wrangling. Melissa and her son Elvis, and Sophie and I packed Read more…
Too skinny, too skinny, too skinny, Not Too Skinny. She said. The last of course, was a finger pointed at Oatcake. We’d already taken them out for a five point five mile hike earlier without any real incident before the vet’s visit to the house. The goats were good around Read more…
So, it dawned on us at some point that we actually speak human better than we speak goat. So instead of just trying to convince the goats to get out of the road whenever a car was coming, we got right out there in the road and stopped the traffic. Read more…
Jennie had a dream. I said. She had a dream that we had a sweet goat named Oatcake. Wyatt’s brown and white. Sophie said. Maybe his name is Oatcake! We laughed and laughed and loved it and decided to try it out. We were both dressed in our hiking dresses Read more…
He screamed his face off and just about pulled the fence post out of the ground. Wyatt, you’re okay buddy, I told him while I saddled up Jon Snow. Wyatt leaped around and broke his collar trying to get back into the paddock with Bosco and Sharkey. I fixed his Read more…
So I picked up Melissa and we talked goats and caught up while we drove to Mom’s house. I’d only seen her a few times since high school but she and Renee were going to join us to hike the Tahoe Rim Trail with the goat-eo gang. We saddled up Read more…
They bounced and giggled and wriggled around us. These two new sweeties. We knew we’d bring them home. We made small talk with the owner, a teenager with clear eyes and an honest face who clearly loved them but was ready to re-home them and move on to new projects. Read more…
Sophie visited, and I visited, and Bosco was so excited to go on walks, he’d run to the gate and baaa before we even got his outfit on. Wyatt would hide behind Carlie the horse and look around her butt at us when he thought we weren’t paying attention. We Read more…
“Here. You be the horse.” She said. So I was the horse and she was the person, and she tied me to the barn door. “Now you try.” So I did and I got the knot right and I learned a new skill. I’d posted on Facebook looking for a Read more…
Day 17– July 20, 2014 Odometer Reading: 164.5 miles Miles today: 2.1 Camped: Le Conte Canyon Ranger Station – elevation 8,758 Today’s Key to Success: Ranger Matt Aidan had a really hard time getting out of bed. Right when we left camp, it started to rain. Then it turned to Read more…