[pure-silver] Re: [pure-silver]: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: The End Of An Era
- From: Ron Schwarz <rs@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 08:23:50 -0400
08:53 AM 9/11/2004 +0100, Geoff Taylor wrote:
>> OTOH, at the rate folks seem intent on getting his goat, perhaps I
>> could prevail upon my wife to share her recent bounty?
>>
>> http://www.michi-kogaku.com/picsdir/Goats/Default.htm
>>
>> Hey, COOL Ron. Which one's called Billy Goat Gruff?
The only one that was ever named was named by me, after a former employee
whom he resembled in both visage and temperament.
We finally had our fill of him and exchanged him for a fist full of
dollars. I suspect he filled a few others shortly thereafter.
The irony of our Goat Endeavors is that years ago, I said something to the
tune of, "Now that we've got a nice place in the country, I'd like to raise
a few goats, for meat." I'd eaten goat meat once, having purchased a small
quantity of it on a whim. I found it to taste like lamb, but with much
more flavor, and much less grease.
As of this time, I have yet to taste a single morsel of goat meat, some
five or six years into the endeavor. What I had intended as "livestock"
seem to have morphed into "pets", primarily at my wife's behest. The same
has occurred with the ducks and geese.
Often heard expression in these parts: "They're so *cute*!"
My other plan -- to have them serve as lawnmowers (a task to which they are
uniquely qualified, since they thrive on grass -- a better grade of
provender than hay -- and, they, unlike sheep, will trim the lawn down to
the perfect height) -- has been categorically denied, because, "We don't
want people to see goats walking around the yard!"
Oh, well. There's still the chickens...
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