Family

Family--what a precious thing family is! Male Handler has gone north to surprise his Mom for her birthday. After 32 1/2 hours of travel time, he has arrived, and Mom was quite emotionally surprised!

Female Handler (FH) is holding down the farm, and Murphy's Law has thrown in some challenges, naturally.

Timi was late going into heat by two days leaving the success of this resting fully on FH shoulders. This would probably be one of the last opportunities before spring arrived, and FH wasn't going to miss it.

 Timi is in the foreground and batting her tail. Sonny is in the background getting a good whiff.

Early this morning he suddenly "GOT IT"...and what was required of him. How does this happen? Who educates him? There's no stack of PlayGoats tucked under the hay. There's no 50 Shades of Grey Goats circulating on the farm. Or is this just knowledge in the recesses of his brain and suddenly makes sense when he's physically mature? Timi looks rather large, but in fact she's normal size. Her winter coat is about 3" thick which makes her seem more on the plus size. We sometimes pretend she's a sheep as a scene of sheep grazing in the front seems peacefully pastoral, rather than a goat who will eat every ornamental within a 1 kilometer radius but will thumb their nose at grass. Have you noticed the chances are greater for sheep to be props on the cover of Architectural Digest and slim to none for a goat! I digress...

And we have the vice grip going on...and success. But just to make sure, we arranged for at least 4 events over the course of the day. Sonny was exhausted. Timi was longingly looking for more. 

All indications look good that the goat family will expand on January 5, 2014.