Personal Petting Zoo

Last weekend we had the chance to go and visit Billy's parents. It had been about two months (too long!) since we had seen them. The kiddos looove going to see Nannie and Pop, and always love roaming/running/climbing all over their farm. Nannie and Pop have several goats (they are working towards having a lot of goats) which provided some serious petting-zoo type entertainment.

I was a little concerned that the goats would bite them. But I'm not so good at animals...I hate dogs and honestly I'm a little terrified of horses. (Hello...they are huge, don't look where they are stepping, and they kick people.) But the hooligans didn't seem to have any trouble making friends. Tirzah was fearlessly feeding them all kinds of scraps she yanked out of the yard, and Merrick looked like he wanted to just climb right in the pen with them. (We also had a problem with him climbing into goat pens at the fair. He seems to have a kindred spirit with goats...probably mountain goats in particular since he's been climbing like one since before he could walk.)

I had one close encounter when I was leaned over the fence taking pictures and looked down to see this. She is probably thinking my iPhone would make a good snack. As far as goats go, these ladies were pretty good looking. I've seen goats before, and cute was not a word I would have used to describe them, but these guys kind of won me over. But don't expect to see me on any horses anytime soon.