Something I’ve Been Up To.

There wasn’t a thing I could think of to do. I was really bored (and that doesn’t happen very often with me!). Maybe it’s the cold weather and dullness around here that made me want to do something drastic. Like getting a big dog or some animal or project that I’ve never taken on before. Then I remembered something.

Now that the cow idea didn’t work, we needed some animal that would be a tax reducer (horses are not, for some reason). And since we had done pretty well with goats a few years ago, someone suggested that we get one or two. I was quite interested in that (I’ve wanted goats ever since we got rid of them ;)). But Mom and Dad didn’t want to invest in another animal and then find out it won't work out. So I asked if I bought the goats and they were totally my responsibility and Mom and Dad didn’t have to pay a cent for them, if they would let me do it, which they consented to.

I was quite excited and went to the library and got some books about goat keeping. Then I got to the hard part; figuring out how to get a pen, shelter, and milking place set up. When we got the miniature horses a year ago. We didn’t think we’d be getting back into goats so we tore out the big four goat stanchion, put the minis’ in the goat pen, and made it look like we’d never had a goat step foot on our soil.

But since I didn’t have near enough money to buy a goat, not to mention buying the feed and vaccines’, I asked Levi if he wanted to pitch in his money and we would both buy a goat. Of course he was all for it (as I figured he would be). So we worked out a deal with Mom and Dad that if we did a bunch of work around the house for a certain amount of money that would go to the "Goat Fund" (so they were paying for the goats, but it wasn’t without a little bit of labor).
I looked around on the Internet for goat ads in Wisconsin, and found a place that was selling Saanen/Alpine cross doelings for a very good price. Then I figured out how much the goat feed, vaccinations, and ect. would cost and added that to the price of the goats. Then I added the money that Levi and I had and found out it will cover the cost of everything with a bit left over! I was quite happy about that!

Now all I have to do is go get the goats and they are about 2 hours south of us so I’m not sure when we’ll be able to make a trip down there.

So if you’re wondering why there’s not much going on around this space of the web, it’s because there’s other things going on in my corner of the world. And if it bothers you I’ll try to update more often.