The Fair & The Goats

Even though I am still running at about 50 percent and Randy still at about 75, we decide to forge on to the fair some 2 hours north of us. What a delightful fair it was! Beautiful setting, great smells, nice people. A fair from the old days for me. A corndog and lemon shake up for husband. We found the Goat Barn and came in while they were showing the Nubian's. The 4-Her's were so cute showing their treasures. I was also fasinated with the difference in a dogshow and a goat show. The judge actually had to critique the goats over the microphone as to why he put up one over the other! Unlike the dogshow arena where the judges don't have to do diddly as to their choices. We watched for awhile and finally met up with our Nigerian gal from IN. We met almost three year old Hope and fell in love instantly. She just reeked character. We felt confident in her lines and that she would be a great foundation doe to start us out. We then met five month old Susie and her sister Sarah, year old Callie and a few assorted others. We decided that Susie would also make a good fit here on the farm. She was a little timid but we felt she would come out of it with some good ole one on one and love. We had a lovely, very well informed visit with our gal from IN and pulled the truck around to the right side of the fairgrounds. We were on our "wheezing" way with our first goats!!!