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Animal Planet Farm Animals (Animal Bites Series) | Animal Planet

I colored this picture and made up a story about it.

#haiku #haikuhive

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JenlovesJT47 So cute 🥰 1mo

TheBookHippie ♥️ 1mo

dabbe 🧡💜💛 1mo

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CBee 💚💚💚 1mo

AnnCrystal A cute, happy story 👏🏼🐝🐂🐎🐖🦆🐖💕🐝💝. 1mo

lil1inblue 💛😍 💚 1mo

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Amor4Libros

Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir | Jennifer McGaha

bailed

This one was not for me…

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Amor4Libros

Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir | Jennifer McGaha

Current audiobook…Can‘t decide if the narrator‘s voice is boring me or not…

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DebinHawaii

Goatwalking | Jim Corbett

#HaikuADay #HaikuHive

When I was driving along Hwy 19 in Kona yesterday there was a family of dark brown goats (males, females, kids) just casually walking down the side of the highway. Apparently they are feral& pretty common but their casual stroll captured my attention & inspired today‘s haiku:

Goat Gang 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

Brown goat parade struts
Like they own the whole highway—
Cruisin‘ Kona style.

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JenlovesJT47 So fun! 🐐💛🐝🖤 4mo

TheSpineView Cool! 💛🐝💛 4mo

AnnCrystal
🤩🐐👏🏼🐝👍🏼😍🐝💝. 4mo

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dabbe I'm learning so much more about Hawaii through your haikus! #goatgang 🐐💛🐝🖤🐐 4mo

Eggs Love this! Great photo 🛣️🐐 🤎 4mo

julieclair What fun! 4mo

bellabella wow! So cool 😍 4mo

lil1inblue Fun! I love “ cruisin Kona style“ 4mo

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TorieStorieS

Happy Medium | Sarah Adler

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This #AardvarkBookClub pick has been waiting on my shelves & I had so much fun reading it! I giggled, I even teared up! Gretchen grew up a conwoman & for the last few years she‘s worked as a spirit medium in DC. Her best wealthy client sends her to a MD goat farm to perform an exorcism so that it can be sold… & Gretchen meets not only a grumpy farmer, but her first actual ghost who she can communicate with! I really had fun reading this! So cute!

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Robotswithpersonality

Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir | Jennifer McGaha

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Whoa. That was A LOT. A lot more than I thought it was going to be. I'm sure part of that's on me for browsing available non-fiction audiobooks and choosing one based on title alone. But even within the realm of 'economic crisis leads to more rustic accommodations', that was a lot. 1/2

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I appreciated how the author reflected on the circumstances leading to the dire financial situation, it always feels like a good time to remind oneself of the importance of fiscal responsibility and the perils of a too cavalier approach to credit and loans, the danger in investing in real estate you can't really afford, though I did not see the 'didn't pay taxes, owe back taxes' part coming. Which kind of leads into a fairly major point 8mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? I didn't see coming.
McGaha appears to be a bit more clear-eyed at the time of writing this account, but the level to which she ceded financial matters to her husband (even if he is an accountant) sent a chill down my spine. Especially in light of the harrowing details related of her experience with domestic abuse by her first husband. 8mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? The interval where she basically went off to try out a better paying job in the Midwest and seemed to have the first time to explore her own interests as an adult (first husband in college, first child soon after), the fact that it seemed more like the land and heritage of Appalachia called her back than the idea of her husband and the burgeoning farm, part of me wonders if a woman from a different generation, 8mo

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? less strongly connected to heteronormative relationship standards and generations of her family history would not have been happier elsewhere. Where the book ends doesn't leave me all that certain that she's happy, more like content with her lot, relieved it's not worse. It was a fascinating read for all that Gaha shared, the details of foreclosure, owing that much tax, the familiar tragedy of being underemployed 8mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/? because full positions in chosen field are not offered but low paying temporary ones are, learning to acknowledge how much she may have been relying on someone else to make choices, look after things for her, how her husband was actually fairing, figuring out caring for farm animals, and making at least some of your own essential foods, but I'm still getting 'has not grasped the consequences of acting without thinking' off of some of her 8mo

Robotswithpersonality 7/? behaviour and it's a little exhausting.
As a vegan reader the animal passages were rarely endearing. The attempted mental distancing from animals which are supposed to be primarily a source of food, even if they are not killed for meat, the effort to be philosophical about death and illness, the open admission of where McGaha and her husband mis-stepped and the animals paid for it, it meant that there weren't really any idyllic moments in the 8mo

Robotswithpersonality 8/8 Am I too naive for hoping for a better ending from a 'making the best of it' book? Perhaps. But as much as I can admire McGaha's writing, reflections, vulnerability, her connection to her family, I cannot see making the choices she made, even if I can fully empathize with the mistakes that led to a limited number of choices available.
⚠️Domestic abuse, animal death, recounting experience of seizure 8mo

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JessieKB

Happy Medium | Sarah Adler

@Graciouswarriorprincess I don‘t even know where to start!!!!! I am literally going to be covered from head to toe…cute nails, bracelets, socks, so many sweets🎉, and how have I missed these cute book bags?! A cup for each of my daily drinks and of course TBR‘s. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! A wonderful box💜🖤🧡 #HHS

Graciouswarriorlibrarian @JessieKB I am so happy that you love everything! Honestly, it was a lot of fun for me! Happy Halloween and reading-enjoy! 😊 11mo

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