**There was a time that I thought I needed to know all about mechanics, after all my dad was a good one and I grew up in the garage with him**
LOL I was my dad’s shadow from the time I could walk, he’s always been a mechanic/carpenter. Freshman year of hs, I was on the FFA tool team. I couldn’t understand why the guys didn’t know the names and uses of all the tools. I thought everyone knew that! I was not very popular, being a gilr, and knowing more about guy stuff than they did. Grin.
You’re right. The goat’s milk is wonderful. I got the milk goat because the kids needed milk and it was either that or go on welfare. Hubby was no help, couldn’t stand the goat, wouldn’t drink the milk, and went around nahing every time the kids drank some.
It’s a good thing we love are men or they’d all be dead and buried! Maybe—might just leave them for the vultures! LOL
Men, the most needed item in the house.
I had to promise Bill that he would not be asked to milk, cow or goat, but he willingly drank the milk.
And built the pens and even birthed the kids.
We had a cow that was milking, when the goats came fresh, so I milked, strained and then after a couple days fed it to the animals, then I started feeding it to Bill, and one night he says, “It does not matter to me which milk you give me, but quit thinking you are fooling me”....so we both started drinking the goats milk and bought day old calves for the cow to raise, along with her calf.
When Bill milked, his hands would hurt all night, he would be sound asleep and still working his fingers to get the pain out, due to arthritis in them.
Yes, I was dad’s shadow, he did all the fun things, while mom did not do much gardening, or working with the animals.......she was a farm girl, who dreamed of the city all her life and once she got there, refused to leave it.
Fred, the bother 2 years younger than me, is not mechanical and grew up to be a Baptist minister and school teacher, but Ray the other brother is my dad all over again, grease, animals and plants and building things.
Yes, I have had my problems, telling men how I want it done and knowing more about the subject than they do.
But I will admit the new cars did me in, I have no idea what half the stuff under the hood today is and what I did know, they moved and one motor/car was even in it sideways.
LOL, I see no real need for some of the new inventions.