These past few weeks my wife has been getting goats ready for the county ffa show. She has them on the best feed money can buy, feed additives, hair conditioner, hoof polish and even new clothes. Yep, she bought them clothes. I can’t even get a new pair of socks, but the goats got new clothes.
I went out the front door the other evening to get some fire wood for the fire. I noticed a couple of boxes from Amazon on the porch. I sat them just inside the door, so the dogs wouldn’t use them as a chew toy.
Before long I heard my wife opening up the Amazon boxes, curiosity got the better of me and I wondered in to the front room to see what she’d ordered. I was hoping for some new cooking things for the kitchen or maybe a new coffee cup. Nope, it was all goat stuff.
One box had a big gallon jug of stuff that looked like V8. It was a special feed additive for the goats. It has to be given at exactly the precise time each day. I remember that much for sure. There might have been directions stating the goat had to be held upside down and facing south when this special feed is administered, but don’t hold me to that….
Then there was another pretty good size box from Amazon that was plumb full of goat clothes. There was the slinky things, puffy cold weather coats and then a couple of the normal looking winter blanket type blankets that I use on horses, except these were for goats. The goats got new clothes. I can’t even get anyone to help me find my cowboy boot the dogs drug off the other day. There’s a reason I refer to our porch pets as hoodlums.
Show season is a peculiar time of year. I swear there should be a moon phase for it. My wife goes into a sort of hypnosis like state during show season. Needless to say, it’s a time of year we have a lot of fun. I bet Amazon has her account fixed to reorder this stuff every year.
James Lockhart lives near the Kiamichi mountains in southeast Oklahoma. He writes cowboy stories and fools with cows and horses.
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