Goat Derby

Posted: October 8th, 2013 | Author: Michael Goldstein | | 1 Comment »

My colleague Theresa went to a Goat Derby this weekend. She writes:

Here are pics of the little goats dashing across to the finish line…though many didn’t run in that direction. They (the goats) wear the color of their sponsors. Few ladies wearing massive hats, there was lots of cotton candy, bbq! (or the closest thing to smoked bbq here)…and many beer tents.

Flashback. When I was really young, maybe 4 years old, my dad arranged to have a goat, or possibly a sheep, stay with our family for the weekend. I think the idea was to give us a little dose of farm life. Dad, somehow your buddy’s name sticks, the farmer — Bob Burns? What the heck were you thinking? Do we have film of that?

Pru — what do you say we put a goat in the backyard for a while, have the kids walk it around the neighborhood?