opportunities taken

So yesterday, the utility company was on our road trimming trees that are too close to power lines. Talk about a waste, they feed all those limbs covered with delectable leaves into a noisy machine and that's the end of that! I was in the pasture watching the horror out by the road and thinking there is something very wrong with a world where humans wantonly destroy and waste something so, well precious. I mean we don't have a lot of trees in our pasture and so we eat more grass than we'd actually prefer. I'm not complaining, there are a nice variety of weeds and such, but anyone knows that leaves are the best. Of course, the very best are always just out of reach, but I digress.

Then I noticed h-mom out by the road talking to the men do the trimming. I couldn't hear them of course, but there was some pointing and such and then h-mom went back to the house. A little later, I noticed the men putting branches (covered with beautiful green leaves) in a pile by the driveway. Hmmm, this piqued my interest and I moved a bit for a better view. Sure enough, a sizable pile was accumulating but unfortunately several hundred feet from my mouth. Some of the other goats had started to notice the pile of greenery by the driveway and of course, many had started to bleat plaintively, clearly begging. Some goats have no self respect!

Now when h-mom started the gator and drove over to the pile even I could barely contain myself and an inadvertent bleat escaped me. She loaded the back of the gator high with branches and turned towards ME, be still my bleating heart. Next thing I knew I was eating some of the biggest, most delicious leaves of my life. Bless you h-mom and the tree trimmers too.