goats are made from the stuff
that bonds with a tender heart
 and makes softies of the tough

poetry by Poetic Homemaker at http://poetichomemaker.hubpages.com/hub/Whimsical-Goat-Poems
music by Kislap from the group called " X-KREW" in the Public Domain

Let's admit it. None of us likes watching home movies unless they are of our children or grandchildren. Our children do not like watching these movies. Our neighbors wish we wouldn't show these movies to them, and our siblings would rather we watch their home movies, which are, of course, much more interesting (to them).  But we persist.  Having no children of my own, I enthusiastically spend large portions of my day (when I could be doing useful tasks like weeding the garden) making movies of the goats and their kids. Thanks to technology,  I can also splice, edit, add sound, and generally make a nuisance of myself with iMovie; or so thinks my husband who would rather I was weeding or fixing dinner.  But being a wise man, he keeps his thoughts to himself (usually) for he knows that a wife on a home movie editing binge will not be moved except by her goats.  I have no siblings, my children by marriage would rather not discuss my goat mania, and they privately consider I have led their father astray. And my neighbors? They see my beloved herd every day as we hike through their fields and yards.  They also preempt my invitations to watch home goat movies by inviting me to their homes to watch movies of them walking around Florence (Italy, not South Carolina). So in the absence of an audience, you dear readers are it. Enjoy.

Music Credit: Used with permission by Trace Bundy, "Canon," from his CD Adept. Check out his website at http://www.tracebundy.com. And if you liked this song, buy the CD. It is terrific!