Houses we can't have...and goats gettin' it on

Heard back about the great house in Saguache, which has a contract on it. It may or may not go through. Who knows. The owner wants 20% down to carry it, which is about 20K. Now, I wonder, where would one get twenty thousand dollars in this economy? Isn't everyone living paycheck to paycheck, like we are? Ha! People are saving that kind of money? Maybe they'd like to loan some to us?

The person that may buy the house is from out of state. Maybe looking for a place to grow weed. That seems to be coming up a lot lately. Everyone thinks they can get rich off the ganja. Cannabis...legal in Colorado, except some counties don't want anything to do with it, including Saguache county. No growing, no distributing, no selling, no cannabis related business of any kind.

I guess we continue on, renting, where we can. I am thankful we have a place to be with all of our animals. I like it much better over on this side of the valley anyway. Even if it is colder. We have the wild horses. And the Sandhill Cranes. Less of the massive crop circles too, which means less spraying, I'm hoping.

Today big ugly billy goat, Molet, is out "playing" with the females. He doesn't play very nice. The little girls are locked in the barn, although he may have gotten to one of them before Richard separated them.

Molet, courting Oreo

Big ugly and tongue

That male goat is intense. He flaps his tongue around, makes loud moaning noises, head butts the barn walls, pees all over himself, and all because he can't get to the female goat he wants. It's just as weird when he goes through his mating ritual with an open and willing female. Not pretty.

If Molet has his way, there will be lots of goat babies next spring. Maybe we will find a permanent place to land by then. And yes, we do have ten acres down near Taos, but the roads are horrid, and come to find out, there is a livestock tax in NM on everything from llamas to goats, to sheep. I knew Taos county had some outlandish registration fee on exotic animals. Alpacas and llamas fall into this category. $50 per head, per year. Crazy. We can't afford that. And alpacas and llamas are pretty mainstream these days, aren't they?

Well, whatever. We will continue to pay on our land and see what happens. Maybe someone wants to buy it outright? Then we could pay off our owner carry and have a down payment for another place a little more farm friendly. The right place and the right circumstances will show up. That's how it works. I have faith.