Fourth Lost and Found Blog Post
Posted Monday, Jun 28th, 2010 at 12:39pmI have been going through my grandfather's notes for his memoir of Outer Island. I've discovered some wonderful lists of things he wanted to write about. Here is one compilation of four lists. It discusses their two goats: Mary Lou and Leaf-God.
GOATS
Cost.
Lack of smell –
Billy’s smell
Quantity of milk
No tuberculosis
The odoriferous Lord + (impatient nanny
Milking (First Mary Lou sat down)
Castration
Tits
Horn debudded
Italians at Easter time
Shape of the knuckle in a leg
The case of the Nubian with contagious abortion + how the news was relayed all over New Haven
Chicago’s distress at Leaf-God
Goat raisers’ camaraderie
Walks with goats
Leaf into the hammock
M. L. looks like a person standing in the trees –
Reading on the rocks with the goats
Mrs. B’s spoiling the goat
Butter content of milk
Rushes to Grace. The goat in the rumble seat
Butter content of milk
Leaf’s jumping
“Is she nervous?”
The man with the herd of goats
Momentum toward goats
Kidding
How much milk – excitement
Make the milk foam.
You never forget milking
Milk oozing through teats
Poison Ivy machine.
Mary Lou will only eat apples that are not in her pen.
Mary Lou looks like Leonardo’s John.
John plays tunes on her stomach.
Leaf on the look out –
All for $10 difference Leonard lies about her beauty.
Leafs eating petunias hanging from the mouth
Poor man’s cow for $50