Uzzi and I can hardly look till Christmas ! There ’s a software package with our name on it under the tree . The wrap is pretty and the box smell goooood , like homemade goat kickshaw . Yum !
There ’s aYulegoat in our Christmas tree too , a tangible straw julebukk from far - off Sweden . Mom buy it at eBay after Fayre ( she ’s aPortuguese Water Dog ) eat our old one . Bad dog ! I bet that Portuguese Water Dog in theWhite Housedoesn’t eat the Obamas ’ Yule goat — if anybody eat our julebukk it should have been Uzzi and me !
Uzzi apparel up to go julebukking .
We goats go gaga for Christmas trees . ma and Dad pick a wild , shaped - by - nature Christmas tree diagram . Hank the Beagle says in Minnesota they harvested a petite tree that the snowplow wings would ’ve sheared off . One year a tall , skinnyblack sprucein their bog toppled over and Dad cut out the very top for their Christmas tree .
It had little globs of rosin on its subdivision and when Mom dropped beadwork of resin on the woodstove , the smell in the family was heavenly sweet . Here we have anEastern red cedarChristmas Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . That ’s because they raise everywhere in the Ozarks .
Mom ’s horsey friend , Melba Mullinssays ruby cedar ’s foreign odor is , “ the feel of
The sheep get in the Holiday look too !
Christmas in the Ozarks ” but Dad says cedars smell like wienerwurst pee .
Our Christmas tree is small and penny-pinching because Mom and Dad cut Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree from a bigger brush so that cutting avail the others acquire handsome and strong . Also , thanks to Fayre , the ornament feeder , it has to be small enough to sit down on the kitchen counter . Its outgrowth are pretty wimpy , so our tree is decorated with one string of blinking lights , dainty transparency wreath and decoration mold like sheep , horses , donkeys , a moose and ( of trend ) caprine animal .
After Christmas , Mom move out the medal and we goats get to rust the tree !
Another Christmas custom at our house is visiting theCaroling of the Goatsat Karin Christensen ’s Biology of the Goat entanglement web site . We watch and listen to it lots of times a day . Take a look and show it to your stooge . It ’s fun !
Merry Christmas from your favorite Arkansas Nubians : Uzzi and me !
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