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My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish.

Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known.

Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull.

Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

I had disagreements with all my neighbors about my dogs. I had a disagreement with myself about my dogs. They were noisy.

I live my life in a very peculiar way where nothing gets my goat as such. I don't look at things in a manner where they offend me. I look at things in a manner where they amuse me.

If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.

People are sheepish when they approach me.