Can goats drive you mad?

Astrid and Frejya are getting naughtier and naughtier. For a while I managed to stop them ) from jumping up on the car by parking it under the balcony and throwing a bucket of water over the culprit. But Frejya, the devil that she is, decided she was going to make a game of it…..grrrrrrrrrrrrr

So in desperation I built a “garage” to try to protect what is left of my car’s duco. It’s pretty rough but is working for the moment.

With the car out of harm’s way now all I have to do is figure how to keep them out of what few things are in the garden. I made a cover for the garlic but the girls have started to get into that. Astrid got in the other day and before I could get down the stairs and get her out she had systematically gone along the trough and neatly nipped back ALL the garlic tops, at the same time toughing none of the weeds.

Very shortly the water chestnuts and the jerusalem artichoke will be shooting; heaven knows how I am going to be able to protect them. The lower vege garden is a right off this season – without a descent goat barrier e.g. electric fence gardening will be impossible this season which is a pity as I had such a fun and productive time last year.

On top of all that they have broken several glass panes in the windows for my house! People think I am mad for staying here, and sometimes I really wonder.

The “garage”.

In the background you will see the greenhouse I started building earlier in the year, but had to give up as I could see there was no way it would withstand a goat attack.

Butter would not melt in their mouth! If I didn ‘t love ‘em so much I would shoot them.