three months ago I held this very goat when it was just a day old.
I’ve almost taken it home twice!
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me doing a psa on how exactly *not* to hold a day old goat to make if feel safe and secure :-O
on an organic valley farm visit, i found myself holding this cuuuuuute day old goat and almost went home with it.
contemplating the gazes of zeldman, meyer and a goat.
so i’ve got this an even apart lunch box on my desk at organic valley for no other reason than i’m a big fan of two folks on the box, jeffrey zeldman and eric meyer. i personally don’t have have much to with website design in my day job as the organic valley milk and cream brand manager ( though having a long running website i do like keeping track of what’s happening in the industry ) and thusly can’t convince ov to foot the bill to send me to the an even apart conference. but our interactive marketing manager did go to a recent conference, and when she learned i’ve always wanted one – she gave me the lunch box for nothing other than the promise of some purple moon ice cream. 100% completely excellent exchange.
i was going to give it to odin so he could have a cool lunch box but , uuhhhhhh, it’s still sitting on my desk because i’m a bad dad and not so ready to part with the lunchbox.
which is all a rather long explanation for how the goat issue of modern farmer ( excellent new publication by the way ) ended up on my desk next to an event apart lunch box.
maybe i’m a little punchy, but look back and forth quickly at the gazes of zeldman and meyer on the lunch box and gaze of the goat on the cover of the magazine. makes me laugh. every. single. time.
a dreary day at the pumpkin patch with frida and pigs and goats and rabbits, oh my!
some years you get great weather when you visit the local pumpkin patch and some years, not so much!
and this year instead of grandparents, we brought frida so instead of tromping around the pumpkin patch together in between rain showers i took one for the team and wandered around the farm while kris and odin got wet and picked pumpkins 🙂
i briefly thought the bigger pig might be grumpy but it was all good.
the goats were all “HEY! COME BACK! I THINK WE CAN HAVE FUN!”
the rabbits were all “nope. nope. nope.” frida really, really wanted them to make a run for it 🙂
MOAR PIGGIES! i think frida was not so happy that i wouldn’t let her get in the pen and slog around in the mug.
i planned on getting a bunch more pictures of odin and actual pumpkins and such but it started raining so frida and i made a break for the car. hi. ho. next year!
i’m bummed i didn’t get any pictures of our first flock of chickens who are now living out their years running around the pumpkin patch.
day 2660: A Pumpkin Patch Adventure with Grandparents!
since fall is fast approaching ( or, rather, technically here ) that must mean halloween is not far away which means it’s time for our yearly trek to a local The Pumpkin Patch to search for the perfect pumpkins for jack-o’-lanterns.
it’s a seasonal ritual made all the more special this year because grandma and grandpa snowdeal came for a visit and got to partake in the pumpkin hunting fun.
the pumpkin patch we really enjoy has all sorts of fun stuff beyond pumpkins, including a barn with many different kinds of animals including very curious goats who like to nibble on anything they please.
odin isn’t quite sure whether or not he’s going to lose his whole glove to one particularly nibbly goat.
i think the sheep would like to taste the camera.
since we live in a small town it’s certainly not unusual for odin to run into a few friends who are on their own Pumpkin Patch Adventures. it’s mighty nice that the old tobacco drying barn has a slat missing that’s just the right size for posing.
it’s all fun and games jostling around the opening, at least until the llama decides it’s time to stand up and leave everyone guessing as to whether or not he’s going to spit on you!
this is gunner. he’s one of the nice folks who drives a group of pumpkin patchers to the patch in a wagon pulled by a tractor.
you know it’s time to leave when he blows in the horn.
he asked odin to look after his horn when he jumped into the tractor. see if you can guess what happens to the horn.
and we’re off! gunner is happy to not look where he’s going and tell you all sorts of stories about the history of the area, including the fact that the very path we’re driving on was originally a horse and buggy trail that connected two nearby towns.
since halloween is approaching you never know what spooky, scary stuff might appear on the trip. since odin is a seasoned veteran he knows to keep on the lookout.
SPOOKY!
one year they had a gorilla jump out onto the trail which i think freaked too many kids out since they haven’t done it since.
the ol’ riding the tractor like a bronco through “raging” stream bit never gets old.
every year, even though it never happens, i think there’s a small chance we’ll get stuck in the stream.
finally, it’s pumpkin huntin’ time!
it doesn’t take long to find The Perfectest Pumpkin that’s all the more perfect ’cause it’s easy to carry.
and even the bigger ones are perfect when grandpa offers to help carry them on your head.
odin poses in The Wilds of the Pumpkin Patch with his Prize Catch.
i almost think we should have it “stuffed”.
grandpa and grandma caught documenting the adventure with their camera phones :-
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we were lucky enough to find a few gourds which was a treat because odin really, really though grandma would enjoy taking a few back home to michigan.
back on the wagon, odin says, “hey grandma, how about how put the horn on my head like a hat. that’d be funny!”
the request, i think, was all a set-up for his next request to put the horn on her head so he could could talk into it and she could tell him if it was loud.
to the bemusement of the rest of the wagon riders, she complied.
what could be more perfect that a little picnic after pumpkin hunting? not much, expecially when the pumpkin patch place supplies brats and sauerkraut!
of course, we can’t leave without saying goodbye to the goats!
such a fun annual tradition, much better than just picking up pumpkins in a parking lot. highly recommended if you’re in the area.
“tucker and becky’s pumpkin patch” on oboe road off PC between highways 27 and 33.
amusingly, our Pumpkin Patch Adventures take place a hop skip and a jump away from odin avenue. in fact, i think we first stumbled upon the road when we went on our first Pumpkin Patch adventure.