MsDeb
Loving the herd life
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I'm really good at journaling in my head. Hard to get it to stick in print anywhere but I need to document this great adventure that is our back yard.
The basic info about me is in my intro. I'm Deb, married to David. Blended family of 5 human children, 9 grands, cat, dog, and very recently....goats.
Goats need shelter. Shelter means build a shed. These were my shed building thoughts in some sort of order:
I have always liked goats.
Other people's goats are nice.
I like other people's goats. Especially the "on loan" goats currently living in my yard.
We can do this goat thing.
I will never forget the excitement of acquiring OUR very own first goat.
I will never forget the heartbreak of her dying in my arms.
I am glad we decided to go ahead and purchase more goats.
I really believed they'd get along with each other.
How the bleep did we end up with three separate pens of goats?
How the bleep are we going to fix this?
How the bleep are we ever going to finish this shed?
I think one of our new does is pregnant.
I plan to attempt to milk.
I have no idea how to do this.
I also don't know how to midwife a goat.
The more I try to learn, the less I feel like I know...
...about life...about goats...about building sheds.
Neither David nor I are carpenters.
Promising looking scrap material might become a shed for some people, but not for us.
Home Depot sells build-it-yourself shed kits.
The instructions say "easy".
The instructions lie.
Goats love to help.
"Love to help" is not the same as "helpful".
My husband can say, with a straight face: "We probably should have gotten the thicker flooring but if anyone asks we'll tell them it said that was the recommended thickness for goats."
I cannot say, with a straight face: "If anyone asks why the shed floor slants forward we'll tell them it said that was the recommended pitch angle for goats."
I would rather sped a weekend building a goat shed in the back yard with my husband than go on any vacation anywhere.
Here are some pics of David, the goats and our friend during our first attempt at building a shed from scraps. I remain confident that I will soon be posting pics of our completed "easy" build-it-yourself shed.
The basic info about me is in my intro. I'm Deb, married to David. Blended family of 5 human children, 9 grands, cat, dog, and very recently....goats.
Goats need shelter. Shelter means build a shed. These were my shed building thoughts in some sort of order:
I have always liked goats.
Other people's goats are nice.
I like other people's goats. Especially the "on loan" goats currently living in my yard.
We can do this goat thing.
I will never forget the excitement of acquiring OUR very own first goat.
I will never forget the heartbreak of her dying in my arms.
I am glad we decided to go ahead and purchase more goats.
I really believed they'd get along with each other.
How the bleep did we end up with three separate pens of goats?
How the bleep are we going to fix this?
How the bleep are we ever going to finish this shed?
I think one of our new does is pregnant.
I plan to attempt to milk.
I have no idea how to do this.
I also don't know how to midwife a goat.
The more I try to learn, the less I feel like I know...
...about life...about goats...about building sheds.
Neither David nor I are carpenters.
Promising looking scrap material might become a shed for some people, but not for us.
Home Depot sells build-it-yourself shed kits.
The instructions say "easy".
The instructions lie.
Goats love to help.
"Love to help" is not the same as "helpful".
My husband can say, with a straight face: "We probably should have gotten the thicker flooring but if anyone asks we'll tell them it said that was the recommended thickness for goats."
I cannot say, with a straight face: "If anyone asks why the shed floor slants forward we'll tell them it said that was the recommended pitch angle for goats."
I would rather sped a weekend building a goat shed in the back yard with my husband than go on any vacation anywhere.
Here are some pics of David, the goats and our friend during our first attempt at building a shed from scraps. I remain confident that I will soon be posting pics of our completed "easy" build-it-yourself shed.