A Labor Day Excursion

For our Labor Day adventure, we drove 90 miles north to get a new goat today. Her name is Mia. She is full of milk, and was living with 27 other goats on a raw milk farm. Some day we plan to join the Colorado Raw Milk Association. But, for now, we will learn the basics and enjoy the milk ourselves.

I do not have any pictures of the boys, because they met a new friend, who was teaching them how to launch grasshoppers in plastic bottles. You place the grasshopper in the bottle on a plank. You then raise a twenty pound log over your head and drop it on the plank, thereby launching the grasshopper about fifty feet in the air. I tried to get a picture, but the action was too fast.

This goat knew something was up, and wanted to be included in the adoption.

Getting ready to milk Mia.
We all got lessons milking Mia. Colleen couldn't wait, and was the first to squeeze.
We tried to feed this cute baby goat, but his rude companions always took the delicacies away from him.
Maybe you should not pet this particular animal, Sara.

Mia was not thrilled to ride home in the back of the van, and she voiced her thoughts at a level equaling the joyous sounds of the children.


Safely home, Colleen takes Mia to her new digs.