Caroline
Well-known member
Never a dull moment around here. Even harvesting wood can be turned into an adventure.
Ok, picture this. You are out in a pasture under a tree trying your best to cut just the right branch. A job that should just take a couple of minutes is made much more interesting by the "help" of three very large Boer goats who are constantly getting underfoot and one wanting to play the bucking game with you. Then once you have cut the branch you realize that the branches are all tangled up higher up in the tree so now you need to try to untangle the branches by removing some others, all the while tripping over goats. The goats are also very anxious to eat the branch that you are wrestling to get out of the tree and are climbing up on other branches to get to it. It made for a very fun experience. They are actually very sweet goats.
Later in the evening I was cutting twigs for a large order of toys. I knew exactly how many I needed and thought I was keeping track. When I was nearly done I remembered that I needed to do something with the horses out at the barn and left to go and do that. When I came back I recounted and discovered that instead of cutting more than 168 twigs I had only cut 160, so out to the shed I go this morning to cut some more.
Ok, picture this. You are out in a pasture under a tree trying your best to cut just the right branch. A job that should just take a couple of minutes is made much more interesting by the "help" of three very large Boer goats who are constantly getting underfoot and one wanting to play the bucking game with you. Then once you have cut the branch you realize that the branches are all tangled up higher up in the tree so now you need to try to untangle the branches by removing some others, all the while tripping over goats. The goats are also very anxious to eat the branch that you are wrestling to get out of the tree and are climbing up on other branches to get to it. It made for a very fun experience. They are actually very sweet goats.
Later in the evening I was cutting twigs for a large order of toys. I knew exactly how many I needed and thought I was keeping track. When I was nearly done I remembered that I needed to do something with the horses out at the barn and left to go and do that. When I came back I recounted and discovered that instead of cutting more than 168 twigs I had only cut 160, so out to the shed I go this morning to cut some more.
