Thursday Evening Purchases

The handlers heard about a family that was in the midst of separating property for an eventual divorce. The final pieces that they were selling were garden tools, BBQ tools, the last of the spring garden (chard, parsley...), a chicken (freshly plucked and frozen yesterday), and really anything else that they were interested in. They left me sleeping on my favorite chair and headed out about 5pm.

Now...if you have followed this blog closely, you understand two things:
1. This family doesn't waste anything, so if they can stop it from being left at the dump, they will.
2. If the price is right, they have learned to make spur of the moment purchases and forget the comparisons with every other possible divorce that may be happening in the departamento (whoa...get outta here!).

Methodically, Male Handler (MH) picked a few select tools that would be of benefit. He also acquired an assortment of home-grown seeds, from acelga (chard) to zanahoria (carrots), and some deadly pellets for ants to bring back to their home and share with their nest-mates. He also asked for an old motorbike tire that was hanging from a ceiling hook. In between all this methodical selection, he kept eyeing the goats that were grazing by the vegetable garden.

An hour later while heading home, there was a bit of stunned silence, broken only by the bleating of a goat in the back of the van. Chochi, as she was called by the previous owners, was welcomed into the family Thursday night. Chochi is very pregnant, and due about the time of the next full moon.