The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life, sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that binds us all together.

- Erma Bombeck

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Drove to PDX for Goats

(Pictured: Big Red, Tumbleweed, and Lilo)
We drove to PDX to pick up the goats from Sarah this weekend. We left on Sunday morning and returned on Monday night. We borrowed a trailer from Tom so that we didn't have to put the goats into the back of the Expedition...although I had planned to do that if we couldn't get a trailer. It's about a five hour drive from Sarah's house to ours.


It got a little more complicated when J had to fly to LA Sunday night. He returned Monday afternoon. That meant I drove the trailer across town to Sarah's...not a pretty picture. We made it to her house, unloaded some hay for her, and loaded up the three goats in time for J to arrive and drive us home.


We had to take Santiam Pass because 26 was requiring chains and we forgot them in the van at home. It was windy and slippery, and the trailer was heavy...but we made it. We left the goats in the trailer over night and put them into their new pen this morning. They seem happy enough to be here.

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