A friend from Weight Watchers was talking about her experience with a goat and it got me to thinking about the ranch we used to live on a few years back. Actually, I think about it and write about it a lot. We had a lot of things happen to us while on that ranch and with our animals.
Our kids were always volunteering us to bring this animal or that one to school. I usually didn't mind though. We took in geese, chickens, goats, an old rooster, fish, rats, a few puppies we were raising for the Guide Dogs for the Blind, and several other things, and there was always something that happened in the process. And many of our animals were chosen for science fair projects, all humane ones I can assure you.
But one event comes to mind most vividly today. It was the auction.
We decided to take an assortment of fowl to an auction that was over an hour’s drive away. We loaded the birds into their cages and put them into the back of our old jeep and headed out. The crowing and clucking and honking, we did okay with, but the ammonia smell got so strong that by the time we arrived at the auction we had all the windows as far down as possible and my dear husband was driving with his body slammed up against the driver’s door, his head part way out his window trying to see where he was going and I was hanging my head out the passenger’s side window in hopes for a breath of fresh air. Good thing we were only around other animal people at the auction and not going to some social event. We didn’t try it that way again and when it came time for the pigs, well they got to ride in a trailer.
I am still doing good on Weight Watchers and have lost another couple of pounds. Yeah! I've finally found a plan I can stick with and see results. It's great!
Wishing you all a wonderful month. Don't forget to get out and vote!
S A Slack
4 comments:
Hah, what a funny memory. :) I think the smell of the chicks in the tub... ammonia and guano + wood shavings... will live in my memory forever.
Yes, Renanse, smells from the past can stay with a person throughout their whole live and tend to surface from time to time. A loved ones perfume or aftershave certainly does. And the smells of chickens, or any other kind of barn animal, will definitely do that! :)
LOL Oh my! Bet you could write a book about things that happened on that ranch!
Yes, Kristy, I could probably write a couple of books about all the things that happened to our family on that ranch!
Maybe I will some day:)
For now, I'm just writing magazine articles about it.
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