Auction

On Wednesday evening we decided to go to an auction. Now this isnt the typical household goods auction that you might normally think of, but a livestock auction. Down the road from us there is a "Sale Barn" about 15 minutes away. We had never been there before since the sales are at night and my husband used to work nights. Also probably due to the fact that I would feel sorry for animals and bring them home if he wasnt there with me....we would have a pasture full! The auction started at 6:30pm which would be great....enough time to have some dinner and then make it home early enough to get the boy ready for bed for school the next day. I had planned on taking some pictures to post but forgot the camera and the camera on my phone just isnt the greatest...maybe next time. They did have some nice (and inexpensive) goats go through...some not so nice, but that is typical too as there are meat buyers there. There were some very nice and cute pygmy goats that were sold. That got my husband and I to thinking....we dont really want another goat buck kept on the farm but why dont we get one that we like at the auction. Keep him around for a month or so to breed Ethyl and then either sell him or take him back to the auction. We are going to wait and breed her until Feb/March of 2009 so she can grow a bit more and then the babies would be born July/August 2009. The dairy goats that went through were too sickly looking for us to consider...they had certainly been used in a dairy. Ok~well thats about all for today but I will close with a pet peeve....and I see this guy quite a bit driving around in a 1980something Ford Escort hatchback wearing a cowboy hat....it just doesnt fit ya know. Kind of like driving a dumptruck with a pillbox hat on.P.S. want to see an auction but dont know where to go? You can watch from the comfort of your home online! www.lmaauctions.com You can watch something close to you (maybe even go there in person sometime?) or something all the way across the country.