I feel as if this is a bit of a cheater post since the above picture was taken more than four years ago. But it does serve to illustrate today's topic.
A couple of weeks ago I featured a book in my Friday's Favorites that I said looked interesting to me and was at the top of my to read list.
I was lucky enough to win a $100 Amazon gift card from work last week so I ordered the book. The Bucuolic Plague by Josh Kilmer-Purcell.
It's the story of two Manhattan gentlemen that, practically on a whim, buy a 100+ year old farm and try their hand at weekend farming.
First of all I love this type of story – a modern day memoir of someone trying their hand at sustainable living. Like Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – only with drag queens.
The author is the type of writer where as I'm reading I suck in my breath and think "I wish I had written that line." He is so subtly witty. I loved how he sort of accidently, without mentioning it to his partner, who so ardently opposed the idea to begin with, brought a herd of 80 goats to live on their farm. And only had to come clean when they showed up on Friday night and he had to explain what they were doing in the barn (I admit to employing this same tactic when introducing new cats into our household).
I had a hunch this would be a good book and I was so completely right. I'm only about 100 pages into it and I'm already mourning the approaching conclusion to the story.
Makes me wish we still had our goats.
Have you seen their TV show…The Fabulous Beekman Boys??
I have this book on my Kindle, I got it to read at the beach but haven’t read it yet – glad to hear you like it. I think that other book is on there too. Your goats were so cute!
Donna