Showing posts with label goats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goats. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Goat day at last!

So, GOATS! Here are my encounters with dozens of goats on Sunday alone. Goats are a regular feature of Samothracian life. You can hear their bells on the breeze at night and in the morning. 81.8% of the dig team enjoys this sound – the other 19.2% say it disturbs their sleep. I am actually listening to a bleating goat while I type this – appropriate, because 45.4% of the dig team enjoys eating goat. Here are some photos – the goats waiting by our porch on Sunday. They are near our rental car – you can’t park your car under the trees here, because goats will climb up on in to eat the leaves from the trees. They actually sit in the branches (take THAT, Kevin Owen! Goats can fall from trees! Maybe not camels….) Cindy bought a goat bell as a souvenir before brunch. Then we saw goats at the beach, politely crossing in front of a goat-crossing sign. We also got a shot of a goat from the car – looks like he’s moving fast!

I did not take a photo of the goat roast we have for dinner every Sunday.

In other goat news – my first week, I ran at dawn most days. One morning, a baby goat paced me for half a kilometer! There may be more goats than people here. Last week, I saw an actual shepherd using a crook to put the goats in a pen. Wow. You can buy said crooks near my church.

I’d love your addition to the goat statistics – charming or noisy? Cute or tasty?









Friday, July 20, 2007

Working, working, working

I know that, from the outset, it sounds like vacation -- Greek island in the middle of nowhere, someone cooking and cleaning for you, a few feet from the ocean, games most evenings, yoga....

wait a minute. It IS pretty vacation-like.

However, this consulting thing is killing my beach time. I'm editing from 5:30 - 6:30, 12:30 - 3:00 and 6:00 to 7 or 7:30. With weighing coins and typing in little data cards in between. I'm really looking forward to being done next week when they submit their proposal!

This is my long excuse for why there are no pictures of goats today. I'm sorry! I will definitely get many photos of goats this weekend, but I ran out of time today. However, I'm not complaining, because I'm pretty sure I'd get no sympathy from the desk bound!

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Workin' for the Weekend

So today, we did more work with coins. This is actually very interesting, although I couldn't really sum up for you what I'm learning. But I think I'm learning to LOOK at the coins in a different way, and this will help when I look at Renaissance coins at home.

I am also looking at the goats in a different way, now that I know Shanley loves them. I will do a 'life-cycle of the Samothracian Goat' post tomorrow. Please do stay tuned.

I'm off to do yoga. I hope my roommate will call out the poses to the porch, despite the fact that she got an eye infection and can't really see (no contacts allowed, and her glasses are an out-of-date prescription. poor girl. let's all hope she mends soon.)