Basic Starter Goat

He's here! Wendy and John returned from a quick weekend trip to Virginia to get four-month old Snickerdoodle, a Mini Mancha buckling to expand her Pennsylvania goat herd.

Happy smile!

Everybody joining in.

Who ARE you?

I'm Enchanted Hill Snickerdoodle.

At ease.

At ease.

Wendy has posted more on Facebook and at Casa de la Tortuga, her web site for the goats.

A little daylight left for some bow and arrow practice...

...and maybe a little kitten jammin'.

Karma hopped away, so Keoni had to play the piano.

It's a matter of days when I'll be on the Greyhound bound for Des Moines and cousin Marilyn and Alan's new home. It's been decades since my last Greyhound trip, and three years since I last saw Marilyn at the RAGBRAI though she made it to Tucson in between time. Longer since I saw Alan since FEMA has had him afield when I've been in Iowa. His mother is a champion pie maker that had all us RAGBRAI cousins, kissin' cousins and sisters for a pie-eating stop-over the year the route took us through her little town.

In preparation, I have downloaded War and Peace onto my Kindle. I already started it as I think I could go across America a couple of round trips before I finish it. The Kindle copy I have is pretty nice since I can touch a character's name and a box pops up with who they are which is waaaay cool for this mob novel. Other entertainment will be watching the comings and goings of the ridership. Too bad Greyhound doesn't stop at all the little burgs like it did years ago.

Shoutout to Aidan: Congratulations! First Chair Cello Man. His successful seating trials were this evening. We celebrated with pie that Keoni and I got when he, Wendy and John got home.

We're all happy for him despite the well pump not working since this morning with the prospect of carrying buckets of water from the other well to complete tomorrow's ablutions. The well guy is coming in the morning. Yea. If he isn't successful, my stranded laundry in the half-full rinse cycle will be hard to squeeze out by hand since it includes two jeans and pot holders.

Better to think about amber waves of grain...

...and go find a dust fuzzy to contemplate.