Day One
Soon after we got married, Tony and I bought a small house with eight acres Most of it was a luscious pasture. With all that grass, we couldn't let it go to waste. A few animals would take care of it, surely.
One Saturday afternoon we discovered a livestock auction in Emmett, a small town down the highway a bit from where we lived. For a couple of city-folks, our first Livestock Auction was quite the experience, let me tell you. There was a square pen with a dirt floor surrounded by these thick metal cables.
The metal cage seemed a bit much
as the first animals came through the gate: a few pigmy goats and sheep. We held onto
our bidding cards and hung tough; The smell of those first few were nearly enough
to chase us right out of there.
