truckinbutch
Silver Member
With 2 daughters that I spent mega bucks on to college educate into professional carreers and they brought along 4 grandaughters from unweaned ,not walking to preschool that never close their mouths .
We get seats in the buyer's arena and the bidding starts ....
Green produce then eggs .
No problem .... 3 of the little girls are dandling about to the amusement of the uninterested bidders.
Next comes the small live critters pulled out of cardboard boxes for the bidders to see ........
Rabbits ! Hampsters ! Doves and chicken peeps that the gkids loudly tell Pappy they want ; to the amusement of the crowd that is encouraging him to bid .
" Go tell your Momma's ",has been my response ... When 'Momma's' say NO ! the crowd laughs .
A few rounds of this and the little girls settle down .
......And then the last box gets opened and out comes 2 baby goats so young that their umbilical cords aren't dry yet . And ........
my two ' educateted ' matronly 'professional' daughters go so "buga$$ foolish that they are sittimg side by side bidding against each other for these worthless goat children until I can get them back under control .
And the crowd is laughing it's collective butt off.
End result is that for $60 my oldest daughter gets to carry 2 baby goats home in a cardboard box inside her state of the art SUV
and care for them forever 'cause her kids bonded with them ....
Update ,
Yesterday and today were family work days helping my oldest daughter build her horse stable . She had the 'cutest' little baby goats playing around underfoot and climbing all over everything we were working with when they weren't playing with the grandkids .
The minor nuisance of a pesky pair of baby goats is far overshadowed by the rewards of enjoying an extended family .
We get seats in the buyer's arena and the bidding starts ....
Green produce then eggs .
No problem .... 3 of the little girls are dandling about to the amusement of the uninterested bidders.
Next comes the small live critters pulled out of cardboard boxes for the bidders to see ........
Rabbits ! Hampsters ! Doves and chicken peeps that the gkids loudly tell Pappy they want ; to the amusement of the crowd that is encouraging him to bid .
" Go tell your Momma's ",has been my response ... When 'Momma's' say NO ! the crowd laughs .
A few rounds of this and the little girls settle down .
......And then the last box gets opened and out comes 2 baby goats so young that their umbilical cords aren't dry yet . And ........
my two ' educateted ' matronly 'professional' daughters go so "buga$$ foolish that they are sittimg side by side bidding against each other for these worthless goat children until I can get them back under control .
And the crowd is laughing it's collective butt off.
End result is that for $60 my oldest daughter gets to carry 2 baby goats home in a cardboard box inside her state of the art SUV
and care for them forever 'cause her kids bonded with them ....
Update ,
Yesterday and today were family work days helping my oldest daughter build her horse stable . She had the 'cutest' little baby goats playing around underfoot and climbing all over everything we were working with when they weren't playing with the grandkids .
The minor nuisance of a pesky pair of baby goats is far overshadowed by the rewards of enjoying an extended family .
