As promised when my last column for United Caprine News was published in December 2020, here is my third book in the Life in the Goat Lane series: Still Life in the Goat Lane. Starting with the...
PREFACE
Back in 1991, I published my first book, “Life in the Goat Lane”, compiled from columns I had written for United Caprine News. In the preface to that book I wrote: “Life in the Goat Lane is a collection of tales about my twenty, crazy, fun-filled years with goats. The first twenty.” My husband said “the first twenty” sounded like a threat.
In 2000, “More Life in the Goat Lane” arrived, dedicated to the incredibly supportive goat community that pitched in to pay my medical bills after I pitched off my horse, (horses being another of my addictions). In that book, I wrote that we were planning a new goat barn… and had been planning one for many years… but first came the carriage house for my horse drawn equipment. As of 2000, the posts were up for the carriage house, but the goat barn was still in the planning stages.
In the summer of 2010, we poured the foundation for the long awaited new goat barn. Two years later, in the summer of 2012, it was finally finished and the goats moved in. Somewhere along the way I vowed to write the third in my “Goat Lane” series of books if and when I ever had a new barn.
And so, considerably more than the threatened forty years after those first two scrub goats entered our lives in 1969, “Still Life in the Goat Lane” is here. And, yes, so are the goats.
