We got Muppets!!

Another Friday night auction (Yes, there's nothing much better to do in Arcadia on a Friday night than go to a auction full of animals. It is the social scene for sure. Sadly, I"m NOT kidding). I brought Luc along and we did a quick tour of the pens and cages (took about 15 minutes) and he was DONE and ready to go home. (sigh) When I was his age, that would have been big time fun! A whole building full of chickens and goats and sheep and calves and ducks and.. Ok, you get the picture. But Nooooooo, Mr. High Tech, DVD player tucked under his arm, bored look on his face, was ready to go home and play with his WII (that ALSO had a different meaning when I was a kid).

They had several cages of Silky chickens (always a great find) and a few pygmy goats, and lots of interesting chicks (cough, something else that means something different to most people) so I called my sister who was still on her way home from work.

She swooped by and picked up Mr. High Tech and took him home, fed the menagerie then headed back to the auction.

Meanwhile, the auctioneer had set a cage of 6 fluffy muppets up on the block. I swear to God, they looked like something from Jim Henson's imagination. White, fluffy, with these big eyes and fuzzy afros. They were all standing very upright with their necks stretched up looking around. So many people were interested in those white silky chicks. I had overheard people admiring what good looking silky chicks they were. I became determined to get them.

And so the bidding started. Many people were bidding, and every time, I'd raise my hand and counter. Finally... I just picked up my hand and kept it there, indicating I would match. The others gave up, many smiling and shaking their heads..."She really wants them there birds." Yes, she did.

And she got them :P

So luckily I had a small empty box in the car and I stashed them there and carried them around until Peg arrived with the truck and cage. Though we opted not to put them in the big cage but to leave them in the truck in the box.

The other silky chickens were were interested in were on the very last row, naturally. But there was a great assortment of colors. some were still fuzzy chicks and some feathered out a few months old. There were many stalls of livestock and two rows of caged birds and rabbits before them though. Which meant it was going to be a very very long night.

And that it was. $172 dollars and 34 silky chickens later, we went home (after midnight).

But yeah, we got muppets!

Goat Love

Well, we did it again. We bought another goat at the auction. This is a little carmel pygmy nanny. She is very sweet and doesn't know she's a goat. We bought her so that Jonesie (aka Davy Jones) would have someone to hang out with since he's a bit of an outcast with the other goats. He's sniffed her a few times, but pretty much continues to be the odd man out of the herd. He's young yet, though and the only "guy with gonads" in the pasture. So sooner or later, he's gonna be putting on Barry White and following her around doing more than sniffing.

Following the Pirate naming theme, we decided to call her Calypso. However, she's had a dozen names this week so far. Butterscotch, Buttercup, Butterpie... well, you get the trend. So little Butter is a houdini. She has escaped several times to come "maa-aa-aaing" at the house for attention. I think we've managed to shore up all the escape hatches in the pasture now. God I hope.

I have visions of coming home and finding her and Jonesie on the sofa with a cocktail, goat porn on the tv, and "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Baby" crooning on the stereo. Oh yeah, baby.

"Maa-aa-aa".