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8 Responses to “Ode To Goats”

1. Stu Says:
   November 21st, 2007 at 0:21

   What a great blog entry.

   I haven’t been commenting much lately, but it doesn’t mean I haven’t been reading!

2. Debster Says:
   November 21st, 2007 at 3:01

   No Stu has been busy laying his bike down and losing his riders! Plumey, if Stu offers you a ride on his motorcycle, hang on tight.

   I like that last picture of Vanilje. Mads’ beard is really getting long. I can see it in the last photo.

   In 1996, I was living about 2 1/2 miles from where I am now and had been dating my husband-to-be for about a year. We were married in 1999. I didn’t want to rush into anything. A 4 year courtship was about right for me. Although sometimes I look at my husband and think: “Who is this person?” ha, ha

3. LuisLemmings Says:
   November 21st, 2007 at 8:03

   The goats look so calm and happy. They are terribly lucky to have you there looking over their welfare and happiness.

   Debster, you should get a medal for working in retail for a decade. Man, that’s the hardest gig anyone could do considering the low pay and the unbelievable stress involved.

   After high school, I worked at Kmart and later on to earn extra money I used to clean Bullock’s and then later Mervyns along with Robinson’s and The Broadway.

   I used to see how those crowds would wait outside in the freezing cold and sometimes rain. It was like a rush of vultures to the kill!!

   Some of them even fell and got stepped on! I don’t know how you did it. I never went into retail because of the stress. I could handle pushing a mop and vacuuming acres and acres of carpet. But get me in front of a frustrated mother who couldn’t find a certain size and I end up having a heart attack.

   I guess that’s why you have goats and Plume has goats. They’re more calming and soothing than a mass of people on Black Friday.

   After reading your entry, Debster, I’ve decided to skip the Black Friday craziness. I’ll just let my friends go by themselves.

   I’d rather look at Plume’s photos of the animals and goats then wake up 4am the day after Thanksgiving, stand in a line in the freezing cold with money I shouldn’t be spending.

4. Debster Says:
   November 21st, 2007 at 22:43

   It’s snowing here, Plume. Do you have snow?

5. Plume Says:
   November 21st, 2007 at 23:48

   Stu – Thanks m8. I just hope you survive all that crazy biking and freezing and so on! You daredevil you.

   Debster – Don’t worry, I’m not going to be taken for a ride! Four year’s courtship, did he have to pay any goats as dowry? I couldn’t remember the word “dowry”, at first I wrote “dowager” which I gather is something quite different. Then I googled it and came up with what I hope is the right usage. Also this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm. It’s a funny world. No, that’s not the right usage of funny either..

   No snow I’m afraid. The temperature has risen a little, so it’ll probably be a while before I get any. Crossing fingers though.

   LuisLemmings – I consider myself the lucky one. No doubt goats are calming. I always describe it as “melting my worries away”. That’s really how it feels. All the bad just drips away.
   I have not heard of neither Bullock’s nor Mervyns or Robinson’s. Is The Broadway a theatre?

6. Desiree Says:
   November 22nd, 2007 at 12:09

   The link doesn’t work, Plume. You got my curiosity all worked up!

7. Plume Says:
   November 22nd, 2007 at 14:51

   Desiree – Whoops. the full stop got incorporated into the link

   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm

8. Debster Says:
   November 23rd, 2007 at 3:01

   The places LuisLemmings worked at are all nice big retail stores. Were they in malls, LuisLemmings?

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