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Or is it about the silly woman (me) who tried to catch her? |
Well I have
a confession to make, I did a naughty thang!
�I
got rid of one goat, Pollyanna. She was about half wild.we got so tired
of chasing her and every pen we put her in she found a way out of, done
eat my rose bushes, day lilies and Nandena bushes!� And was getting
out about 5 times a day.
when she
ate the rose bushes I knew for sure she had to go.. you
should have
seen us� trying to catch her to take her back where I got her..we
tried everything and was plum wo out. So I am thinking,what will slow her
down so we can catch her? I thought of everything and no good idea could
I come up with.
I went into
town to the grocery store still just a fuming cause I was mad at her.
All through
the store I wondered what to do. Then I got to a certain isle and a light
bulb went off in my head (I remembered watching a Ma and Pa Kettle movie
where all the farm animals got drunk from drinking sour mash). I went to
the end of the isles and walked across looking to see if anybody was in
the store that knew me, well I didn't see anybody that should notice anything
I did.
Then
I went back to the last isle and got a 5th of Boones Farm, Strawberry Hill
wine and crammed it way down in the shopping cart, hidden by other stuff.
I went on
to the checkout counter and put it on the counter ,kinda buried under bread.
The girl checked� out all the stuff that was covering it and that
bottle of wine looked like a spotlight was shinning on it! I am looking
all around to see who is watching. She finally scans it and sends it on
down to the bag boy and he puts everything in a bag BUT the wine and by
this time I have broke out in a cold sweat, expecting Sister Nosey Butt
from the church to walk in just any minute and her eyes zero in on that
bottle of wine.
Well finally
he put it in a bag and I relaxe abit.(Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee I got I bought,�
now to get it used!)
I got home
and found a lil bucket and poured all the wine in it. I put it over in
the goat pen...........well greedy Polly comes right on to the bucket and
sucks down about 1/3 of it and goes away, like she has had enough.�
I remembered how she hogged up all the goat milk replacement I had given�
the baby goats a few times so I went and mixed some of that and poured
in the bucket with the wine. I stepped out of the gate and here she comes
and sucks down all but a tad and I am thinking "O.K . Ole gal I will have
you soon! Then her 7 week old baby came up and got some for himself and
in a few minutes he was literally leaning up against a pine tree, looking
at me kinda cockeyed..
BUT his
mama just stood over looking at it all like nutin outta the ordinary was�
going on..So I waited a few more minutes and I thought , well she is just
standing there but when she tries to run she is gonna stagger and I will
catch her..so I go into the pen and start toward her and she shoots off
through the woods like greased lightening! Not a tad drunk , she did not
even warble, let along stagger or fall! and here I am done wasted 4.95
on a bottle of wine and sweat a lot worrying about getting caught with
it and it don't even faze that hard headed goat!
Man was
I ever more mad at her then.
Anyhow I
gave up and dared GaJarMan� to feed them anything else till she got
hungry enough to want food more than to run..so the next day we finally
caught her at the feed box!
You can
bet we wasted no time cramming her into a large dog crate and taking her
aggravating tail back to the man that gave her to me!!
She tormented
us so much we still look out expecting to see her walking down the driveway,
looking for more rose bushes!!!
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