Meet the Goats

Meet my self-propelled weed whackers. Rusty is the red and white male and Bella is the blue female. They are great. I didn't expect to like goats. I was honestly looking for sheep to help clear the property. Then a friend offered free goats. On our budget, free is a very good thing. Especially since sheep were going to cost us around $100 a piece. And they are much more well behaved than other goats I've had the "pleasure" of meeting. They're like dogs with hooves, only less picky about what they'll eat. I can even lead them around by their collars. But boy are they strong.

They are always good for some comic relief. Rusty will climb on anything. We should really build him a tree house. We gave them a round bale that had molded. It only took about a week before Rusty learned how to climb up the side of it. After that, it became his permanent hang out. He's such a lazy little stinker. He would lay on the top of it and reach down to pull hay out of the side of the bale.

I did find a use for all of those left over wedding flowers. Rusty enjoyed my orchid blooms so much, it's only fitting that he would eat my roses. Now let's just hope he doesn't get loose any time soon and eat all of the roses out of my garden.