Near Wild Heaven
I have a little surprise treat for you today. I was at the playground enjoying the company of goats, when Alice came over and asked me if I had seen the website of that place in Odder. The one that bought Lakrids and Chokolade. I had not seen that website, no. But as soon as I got home I loaded it up. And what did I see?`Well, see for yourself. Who is that if not the two cutest little goat darlings? Oh how I miss them. Look at Lakrids’ horn! They’re huuge. Oh my.
It looks like a really awesome place they have got. There’s an English version of their site if you want to read a little about it. The goat part of the English site hasn’t been update though, so you can’t see the kids there. But doesn’t it look great? 20 acres of ecological joy. It looks like a little slice of heaven. I’m sure they’re going to have a wonderful life there. I feel selfish for wanting them to come back “home”!
The picture says “Lakrids and Kanel” by the way. Kanel means cinnamon. Maybe Chokolade isn’t called Chokolade after all. Come to think of it I don’t think I was ever officially told that that was her name. I just heard people using it. And I used it. But maybe she was called Kanel after all. Or maybe they have renamed her. Lakrids og Kanel sounds better in Danish anyway, I think. And a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.. if it was a goat.
They even have a Mads-almost-lookalike. Bill. What a handsome boy.
Yes, I am happy for the girls. That they have found such a wonderful home. Who knows, maybe I can visit them some day. There are directions on the site. I think that I might be able to figure out the busroutes. It would be a lot to deal with, though. Going there. It’s not something I’d do once a month. But maybe sometime in the future. I always really wanted to see what Lakrids would look like as an adult. So when they’re a bit older maybe I’ll try to go visit them. Maybe the site will put up an updated picture some day as well. I mean, they can’t advertise with having goat kids when the goat kids are grown up, right?
We’ll see. I wonder if that place needs a goat-keeper. They wouldn’t even have to pay me, just let me sleep in the hay and feed me every once in a while. Just like they do the goats.
I might even let the visitors pet me when I’m in a good mood.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:13
Wow, the Organic Garden is really interesting. Growing their own food, the greenhouses, and the flowers. Looks like a really nice place for the girls.
Maybe you could e-mail them some baby pictures of the girls. They might like to have some when they were first born.
Their shop looked interesting, also. Wine, honey, cakes, all kinds of goodies. Looks like a really neat place I’d like to visit.
We have a place opening up from the 1st of Sept. thru the end of October nearby. They raise pumpkins, squash, gourds, fall flowers, etc., and have all kinds of things to decorate for autumn and Halloween.
During the rest of the year, they farm, raise cattle and pigs, and help run a nearby florist shop.
It also has a place for kids to pretend to be farmers, gather eggs (not real ones), take a horse drawn ride, or go to the field and pick your own pumpkin.
That’s where we first made Jasper, our scarecrow. He needs some work, so during “Make Your Own Scarecrow” time we will have to get him some new clothes and straw and then put him back in the flower garden.
They used to have a big tent, but this year they’re building a permanent building to hold all the produce. They also have a “corn maze” where they grow corn, then cut down stalks in a maze which you have to follow to get out. The corn stalks are easily 9-10 feet tall, so you have to follow the maze path to get out.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:45
The girls look absolutely grown up now. I’m sure in time you’ll take a bus there and visit them. The place looks heavenly! We don’t have anything like that in San Diego…not even in the country, the eastern part of the county.
Where Debster lives, in the middle part of the US is where you have more rural and farm-settings. I’ve seen those corn mazes on tv and they look so neat. Have you been through one before, Debster? Is it difficult or easy? My sense of direction is pretty bad. I’d end up getting lost and then having the fire deparment rescue me.
Because San Diego is a pretty big county we’re starting to have farmer’s markest in various places in the county. That’s the ‘in’ thing now. With gas prices so high, still, no one wants to drive far these days for food that’s already too expensive to begin with.
Other than the farmer’s markets, we don’t have those neat things like you have Debster and Plume. Maybe one day, I hope.
September 2nd, 2008 at 17:26
Debster – It looks like a swell place. We should all go on a picnic there some day. I’m sure the girls would love to see us all.
Your place sounds great as well. Every day should be “Make Your Own Scarecrow” day.
LuisLemmings – I bet they’re way too heavy for me to lift now!
I don’t think I have ever seen a corn maze. Although I have run through a corn field. Scared that the farmer was chasing us! Hah. Those were the days.
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:27
Knowing my luck, I’d get lost in a corn maze. Five or six years later you see my skeletal remains, clutching my cell phone.
September 3rd, 2008 at 22:44
uislemming – And a half-smoken cigar in your mouth, right?
September 4th, 2008 at 2:20
LuisLemmings: it wouldn’t take 5 or 6 years to find you. They cut the corn down later to make way for next year’s crop! We’d find you right away, if there is any consolation in that.
I read it was a 10 acre corn maze. There is no way I would wander around in 10 acres of corn. Especially not at night even with a flashlight. I’m a scaredy goat.