First Contact

All the goats met today. I was working over in Waterville and got home this evening to find that the four new goats (Daphne, Emily, Coco, Gertrude) were on the front lawn. No idea how they got out. Daphne has been out a couple of times but we haven't seen her do it. Apparently she told the rest how to do it. I figured I'd see if I could herd them in with the original three (Gurgle, Stormy, Georgia) but there was a fence malfunction and now we basically don't have any fence. We'll have to work on that tomorrow.

When they first met there seemed to be friendly mingling but then the butting started, Gertrude and Georgia were the worse basically butting each other all the way up the driveway. The others butted in on occasion. We've checked them several times this evening and the three originals are always standing shoulder to shoulder facing off against the four newbies. Hopefully they work it out quickly. Everyone must have a headache after all the butting. Coco and Gurgle seem to be the most relaxed about it. Stormy just keeps running around saying I'm neutered but I can still mount you. We'll see. Feeding time should be interesting.

Caroline spent the day driving around Vermont showing expensive properties to a couple from Pennsylvania. Don't expect anything will come of it but it sure would help the bottom line if they bought something.

I spent a good part of the day in Waterville doing maintance work. I graded the drive and did some grass cutting. Still entirely too wet to think about digging for leveling the sawmill shed. Actually it looks like we are putting in a pond at the moment.