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Is this a problem for us…(or a boon for Trooper?)…..

…..(you decide)…..

There are so many problems that can and do occur in rural life…..

…..things that begin as mini-oddities…flicker into a tiny awareness…..

…..flourish quickly into healthy problems…(which can no longer be over-looked)…..

…..and in less than a nano-second…..

…..they can become world-altering disasters…..

Such is a rural life in sunny sub-tropical Florida…..

I’m sure all of my friends out there with acreage in the serene countryside would agree with me…..

With Acacias’ recent near self-annihilation (eating moldy hay)…it made me start thinking…..

We try to plan and we try to avoid the big things…..

…..like exposed electrical wiring…or mayonnaise left out in the afternoon sun…or leaking propane tanks near open flames…..

You know…the obvious…..

…..but then…..

There are those subtle lurking dangers & potential extinctions…..

A few years back…after one of our mares foaled and before the baby took his first steps outside in the big wide world…..

…..he decided (as foals often do) to kick up his heels…and pelt a few stall walls with his newly-discovered tiny sharp hooves…..

…..the little bruiser left a pint-sized crack in the wooden panel of the stall door…..

Over the years it was ignored…..

And then…..

…..it was ignored a little longer…..

Subsequent stall inhabitants had their way with the stall door…..

…..and that small crack eventually turned into a tiny poke-hole…..

And it was ignored some more…..

Somewhere along the line…some dry-rot decided to settle into the wood…..

…..and then Trooper became the stall’s most recent boarder…..

We wanted to have Trooper stalled until the summer heat subsided…and better goat fencing could be completed…..

…..(that way when he most-assuredly would breed the does…the resulting babies would be kidded in cooler weather)…..

You know that old saying…”The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men?…..

Well…that little crack…which became a little hole…that got a little dry-rot(?)…..

“Suddenly” it became a moderately-sized hole…..

…..that Trooper decided to concentrate on…you know…normal goat-stuff…..

Goats are very-cranium-focused…..

…..they rub…they bash…they butt…and then they do it all again…..

And the dry-rotted medium-sized hole grew…..

…..and we…(the keepers of the farm)…knew everything was Okay…because Trooper’s stall door was securely locked…..

And the hole grew…until he decided to walk through it…and out into the pasture…..

…..to be with all his new herd of girls…(who immediately “adored” him)…..

…..(the “adoration” was mutual)…..

Now…..

I’m making that proverbial lemonade…..

The good news is that the kids will be born in cooler weather…..

The obvious bad news is…there’s a whopping big (goat-sized) hole in the stall door…..

And the obvious moral of this story?…..

…..(oh…screw the moral)…..

…..I’m tired…..

 

 

 

 

 

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