These are Nigerian Dwarf Goats. They’re almost 2 years old and about fully grown now. You can get wethers* for pretty cheap and as far as I’m telling people, they are pets, not livestock. No harder to care for than dogs, maybe easier. And you get top notch fertilizer to boot. We live near a pretty big city, so suburbs but not track home style suburbs. Small yards, close neighbors. The biggest problem was finding a source of proper hay. But once we worked out getting and storing that, its been a blast.

*wethers are boy goats that have been “fixed”. Generally, goats that aren’t handsome enoughbor show worthy get wethered and sold cheap.

I can try to get my sons band to use it as a cover, but there’s no one on earth that wants to hear me play anything.

Typing on mobile, trying to walk goats, avoiding slipping on ice, and trying to keep my fingers warm.

This is English ivy. But yeah, they can eat posion ivy. Its actually good for them.

Yeah, he has the prettiest eyes. And yeah, he’s the eater of the two. He’ll keep eating till I pull him away.

My wife got me the pair for my birthday a couple of years ago. (after a lot of discussion. Never give animals as gifts as surprises). They’d have been a great source of joy and fun.

Its a damn fine leash.

Ha. No. They have a nice hut we put thrm in at night to keep them safe. We could bring them inside but chaos wouldnt begin to describe it. I have read that some people have house trained their goats, but I dont believe it. And we could diaper them but a) that would just be wired and b) I have 3 kids and am done with the idea of diapers.

Yeah, we walk them just about daily. They took to collars pretty quick after trying harnesses. All the neighbors love them. Kids flock to them to feed them leavescabd grass and stuff.

I wouldn’t let my goats eat them. Head but them? Yeah. Kick em? Yeah. Run their water through a Freemen recaimer then use it to wash my goats? Yeah.

They graze on this everytimecwe walk by and have never had a problem. I wouldn’t let them eat like an acre or anything, most stuff gets bad if its too much.

Its also hard to find solid “yes/no” lists. I’d heard black locust was really bad, and that it was OK. My guys got out one day and ate 3 saplings to the bark. Turns out its ok and they love it.

boop.

(this is, without a doubt the best thing I’ve seen online for several weeks).

Yeah, I go through about 40ish books a year because I can listen while driving. I actually like it better because I can ask my car for a word definition or check a date or whatever.

I’m that neighbor thats really, really into Halloween. My whole family is. We do a pretty big yard thing every year and this year we had the scene change every week to tell a bigger story. On Halloween handing out candy and goodies, everyone was stoked and wanted to stop and say how rad it was and how much fun it was to watch over the course of the month. Except one person. She just kept on going about how I should charge people to see it. Dude, first and foremost, I’m not going to make one of the few things I find true joy in doing another goddamned chore. Also, how the fuck would I keep people from just looking at my front yard? How do you expect me to manage that?

One good thing came of it though, after her insistence again and again I told her the only practical way to charge admition would be to do an actual walk through haunted house in my back yard. So the neighbors and fam and I are going to do just that. But for free because fuck that. I might charge her a dollar though because I’m super petty.

Ha, yeah. And later when we figured out how to double the size of 5.25 floppies with a hole punch.

Skateboarding. I’d give almost anything if I could go do that again.

I deeply believe that making money at someting is the fastest way to ruin it. That’s what my job is for, not the rest of my time. I love learning new things and having new experiences more than I love making money. As soon as I do that, it’s a chore.

Dude, that’s fab.

I just scored a comb binder from a job. I got it with that exact use in mind. Do you get front and back cover pages or just use paper?

So, checks notes, we shouldn’t do it. State sanctioned murder is still, checks notes, murder.