I routinely write/talk about restaurants from my travels.  But sometimes, one can leave out a great one that is a regular stop.  Rafy’s Tacos in Shattuck is awesome.  Small scale, big time good.  I have always eaten their tacos–either asada or barbacoa beef.  But tonight, I had the green sauce beef enchiladas.  AWESOME!!  They’ve also got me hooked on pineapple Jarito’s for my drink there.

If you are in need of tacos, and it is an emergency, dial 9-Juan-Juan.

The webmaster–aka Julie–is giving the Kelln Livestock page a facelift and a conversion kit.  She had to backup the blog page.  1146 total blog posts.  Not bad for not-quite-5 1/2 years.  What is scary is that the best blogs never got the submit button pushed.  Some of those probably needed to see the light of day, but it is probably best that they didn’t.

One has not truly lived until they have driven a school suburban to a judging contest that is filled with 9th & 10th graders and gotten to hear the concert of these kids singing Charlie Daniel’s “Devil went down to Georgia”.

My feeding program does not involve a whole lot of different additives.  For years, my standard program has been Special K feed mixed with GO Juice and Vindicator.  We vary feed amounts, exercise levels and styles according to each goat’s fit and finish.  Some have called this a “minimalist” approach and I won’t disagree.  But the results show that it works.

Over the past week, Duke and I have sheared his 4 wethers.  One is going to be an under 90 pounder.  That is where he fits and where his genetics are dictating that he will be.  So be it.  Two others are weighing similar and they both handle similar–a bit soft.  The fourth one handles right one and we are feeding him hard.  As Duke and I were discussing current weights, feed amounts, growth patterns, time left on feed and pulling/pushing to meet a desired weight for each goat, it is becoming apparent that we are going to have 3 wethers all weighing about the same.  I am a believer that it is more important to make an animal look and handle appropriate than it is to enter at a given weight.  So, we will play our hand of cards like we know what we are doing and see how it all turns out.  If it doesn’t work out, well, we will wish that it would have.

Have a good one and a better tomorrow!