Cory's a goat herder and the boys go fishin'!

Philothea, Ohio. June 18th, 2007.

On Monday we went to visit Julie's brother Dale, his wife Margie and their three kids, Derek, Devin and Madison. Dale recently moved the family onto a farm where they are raising goats. Or, "meat goats" as Dale calls them. Meat, because he is raising them for their meat as opposed to milk.

Dale's kids gave all of the goats names. Their favorite one is Jamie, named after Lebron James, and they like to take him (her?, it??) out for a run. They put two leashes on the beast and then they run him down the field. Or at least they try. Sometimes the goat has other ideas. As per usual, Cory was in the thick of things while Ryan and Jason wanted no part of the four legged scary thing.


Dale is renting only part of this farm and the rest is being rented by another farmer. The steer are not Dales, but I leaned over the wire fence to get a pitcure. Only afterwards did Margie tell me that the fence was electrified. Information that I could have used... Luckily I didn't get zapped.

Later that day we met up with Julie's oldest brother Dan, his wife Cindy and their two boys Sam and Will. Dan took us to Cindy's cousins house where they have a pond on their property that they keep stocked with fish. Lot's of fish. Dan quarenteed that everyone would catch a fish.Dan didn't lie, we all caught fish.

Ryan was the first to land a fish.

Then Cory caught one.

And even I got into the act, using an old bamboo pole. The old man still has it.



We let them all go so that they could be caught again another day. All in all a nice night out. Except for the 'skeeters.