windthread

so yesterday.   i am winding down at B Garden.   something says look to the right and i look up and over the house foundation up the hill to the back fence and the Goats are up there as they often are but  ….   Something Is Wrong With This Picture….. and i think,  some of them look awfully "close"….and they were.   Oona, Artica, Minion, Wendy who is really Grace and one other were INSIDE the fence,  mouths into all the luscious rattlesnake grass there and beginning to look toward all the low hanging branches of LEAVES to the side…..I jumped up and yelled   OUT!   Get OUT of here!  and they scattered in all directions and i took off to go up there,  find where they came in and fix it so i could get them out.  I will spare the details.  But what it ended up was somewhere around 15 or 20 minutes of me running after them,  trying to get them to go out the front gate while running back and forth to that fence line to figure out how i could let them out that way without letting all the others in  and they would run when i chased them but immediately out of my range begin EATING and as they ran by all the Garden Plantings,  taking a quick bite of anything green,  like the chard etc.   Tay,  for some reason just stood there.  Watching.  a stick in her mouth.  Usually when i yell at them like this she chases them.  NOT.   just stood there.

long story short,  i did get them UNDER the fencing,  which is how they got in,  Oona being an opportunist  and deft at that and pounded in the big "staples" i got for the tomato cages every 3 inches or so and it is secure.   the little ditch that the PVC water pipe runs through i stuffed with the mesh fencing that has "wires" sticking out that will prick their noses i am hoping.  

and if someone would have asked me if i thought i could run up and down and in circles around that whole area for 15 or 20 minutes…me,  who  needs to sit and take a break between things,  could I?   i would have for sure said no.   The terrain is totally uneven,  rock filled ,  holes unseen     But i did it.    Somewhere in the middle i thought….this is not good, grace.   this is too much.  Just quit.   I don't know at what point i would have.  just quit.   Let it go.   ???   But we didn't get there this time.  And i think today…this is how life is.   Particularly,  how it's going to be from now on.   There's no way to know.    

But this time…i DID it.   Ok then.  Yay for us.  We go.