Goat Feeding and Other Nonsense

Every year when our parents make the 4 hour road trip South to St. George for the Parade of Homes, Lori, Robyn and I take shifts staying with Andrew in Freakin Eagle Mountain.


My shift started at 2:35 yesterday afternoon when I picked Andrew up as he stepped off the bus from "work". I hopped out of my car to greet him and had to laugh as he took his own sweet time making his way down the 3 steps of the bus. I hugged him "hello" then asked him if he wanted to get some fries and a Sprite...which of course he did, I just like to hear the excitement in his voice as he repeats the words "fries" and "Sprite".

I love it that a $1.69 can bring so much happiness! The crazy thing is that he doesn't take his time to savor them, his method is more of a quantity over quality type, so he was done eating these about 7 minutes into our ride home! I actually considered stopping at the next McDonald's to get him some more, but I didn't do it.

This is the sheet of instructions my dad left for us. I still can't believe he's raising a goat (the other one died last fall) and chickens...what the?!


Even though my shift was only 27 hours long I made sure I was well prepared with my book to finish, a new one to start, my Book of Mormon, a bag of candy, a stack of good mail to blog about, my iPod and a bunch of Chick Flicks--it just makes good sense to cover all my bases right?

This is the long, soggy walk to Gunther, the hungry (and loud) goat.

These are my cold, wet feet. It wasn't really flip-flop weather, but I hadn't planned on feeding a goat.


After I had watered the seedlings in the basement (it's gardening season don't you know?) and finished my goat and Andrew feeding duties, I hunkered down to watch Anne of Green Gables for the first time ever (that's right, ever), only to find that the DVD player did NOT want any part of playing that show for me.


This is how I felt about that as I listened to the DVD player make a very disconcerting noise.


I never did get it to play that disc, but was happy that it would play the "thirtysomething" disc I'd brought with me. I put all of my mom's photos from 2008 into an album; this involved trimming all the photos to fit the pages so it took me 4 hours to do!


Andrew took a break from watching AFV and Monster's Inc. to check out some photos.


Amie came over at 8:30 to clip coupons (she gets 5 papers for the coupons) and to hang out while I continued working on the photo album. We finally called it quits around 11:30, which is a little sad considering we used to be able to stay up all night to scrapbook, but now we're old.

Amie gave me these delightful Christmas gifts.

Her cute, pink slippers cracked me up.

I was surprised that I was able to sleep well, but I didn't wake up until 8:10 when I heard Andrew (he slept in too). He was happy to see me awake and was ready to hunker down on my parents' bed to watch more episodes of AFV (they have 22 of them recorded on their DVR).


I scanned photos and watched "Waitress" on the computer while I worked. That show is so bittersweet and charming. I've quoted this on my blog before, but I love this line..."If I had a penny for everything I love about you, I'd have very many pennies."


Amie came back over to finish her makeup and continue her coupon clipping but had to leave within minutes to take her daughter's basketball jersey to her at school. It was kind of funny.

She brought lunch when she returned!

She even gave me some of her coupons.

When it was time for me to leave and Robyn's shift to begin my car wouldn't start (#$@!). I think my battery is dying. Luckily Robyn read the manual and was able to jump my car with my mom's car. (I have learned how to do it before, but have never needed to do so.) It could have been bad news, but it all worked out fine and I made it home without incident. Good times.

**Have you ever fed a goat?
Do you love McDonald's french fries?
What color are your slippers?
Do you like watching AFV?
Can you jump a car?**

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