Pacific Northwest 101

[Southernbelle]

The Twilight books sparked an interest in the PNW for me. I'd love to see your part of the world someday.

 

[JennsPeeps]

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C'mon up! We'll show you around!

 

[sparkles2307]

HAHA we dont even live there and DH thinks he is going to rent out our goats

I am going to call him "the goat renter guy"

 

[JennsPeeps]

Why not? The business model has worked really well here. They're called "Rent-a-Ruminant". Think of it: you feed your goats for a few days on someone's land, they get a cleared field/lot, and the only gas that's used is that to get the goats there.

 

[sparkles2307]

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HIS sales pitch is "wont the grandkids love them!?" um sorry but I am not too keen on my goats getting tied to a tree in someone's town yard for a weekend, where they have access to who-knows-what Granny grows in her flower beds... My goats are lazy too, I picketed them over a week ago in some long grass and bushes/bracken and they ate the leaves off of ONE cottonwood sapling and then just ate a few mouthfulls of grass but its still all long and they just lay around ! Of course when its my garden they are ravenous beasts then!

 

[JennsPeeps]

They way they do it here is to encircle a lot with cyclone fencing, bring in 60-80 goats, and let them clear the lot over a few days.

Check this out: http://www.metroparkstacoma.org/page.php?id=649

Be sure to look at the slide show, which shows the goats "at work".

 

[FrenchHen]

They've used goats in Nashville to clear kudzoo from park areas. That stuff eats houses.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Like I said before, I noticed that people from the Seattle area have an accent, my aunt is visiting for the week and it makes me laugh hearing her talk. We are like 6 hours away but way different accents, haha. I have more of a country talk sometimes and most of the Seattle people have a weird fast techy accent, its hard to describe.

 

[Imp]

We have NO accent in Seattle, everyone else does though.

Imp- pronounced imp

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Lol, she said the same thing. She said me and my friends sound southern to her.