Goose Butt

Goose butt! Is it any wonder our water tastes like goose butt?

The human was worried that the goose was stuck in here. She's all cooing and asking the goose if she's okay.

Her head is gone! Did something bad happen to her?

I can't believe she was taking a bath in our bucket of water.

I miss that big cattle tank. The geese would play in it, but they didn't take a whole bath in there.

After a few minutes, she just lurched forward.

Then she was out on the ground.

Change!

I do not know what this is all about, but this is not acceptable. We were only wanting to go out to pasture like we do every morning. We always walk through this open space.

But look what was there when we tried to walk through this morning. Have I mentioned that we goats do not like change?

We couldn't go through this other door in the barn because Cutie was standing there. We finally got to go out to pasture late this afternoon, when somebody finally moved their beard out of the way.

I do not know what that human thinks she's doing. I do know Snickers did this---

I'm not telling who did this.

What do you think the human has going on here?

Caterpillar Weatherman

I've heard that if there are lots of fuzzy caterpillars, it means there will be a hard winter.

I don't know why the human listens to those things, but she said this little guy is the only one she's seen this fall.

That's way less than last year, when we had our first snow on October 10 and then had tons. I hope she's right.

What do you think? Are caterpillars good weathermen?

Noisy and Dusty

It has been noisy and dusty here lately. Big monster vehicles have been behind the pasture where there usually isn't any traffic.

First, there was one of these removing the dead plants in front of the house.

Then this came and took away all those big round bales of hay.

Now, there's another one of those first machines removing all the corn from the field behind us.

Bambi and I stayed up in the barnyard tonight, but the human gave us some hay! Much better than all the noise and dust.

Fall

It is so pretty here right now. The trees are green and yellow and red and some are already bare.

I just love to stand out here and look around. I do enjoy browsing too.

Obviously, Muffin doesn't need to eat any more; look at that belly. Sugar seems to admire how much Muffin can eat.

We have so much yummy stuff to eat. I wonder if they are leaving that huge bale of hay here for us too.

The weather has gotten much better, so we would have to walk right in the ditch to get muddy now.

I just love fall at Eden Hills. Truly it is perfect!

Dana's Leaf

This is Dana.

She certainly did seem to be enjoying trying to eat this leaf.

She never did get it.

Finally, she dropped it and gave up.

Is This Heaven?

Bambi finally convinced me to join the rest of the herd out in pasture. I went with them, and we went all the way to the back hill, where the human had looked for me a couple of days ago. When she came back there today, I asked her, "Did I die and go to Heaven?"

She looked at me and said, "Silly Millie. This isn't Heaven; it's Iowa!"

I couldn't believe all the big green pasture. I had two of my girls with me--little Bambi and my Joe. Bekka, my grandkid, was right there too. The whole family!

There were areas of tall grass.

Everyone knew exactly where they wanted to go, but I just had to keep looking. I didn't know this even existed.