One house has goats, another sheep. When I mistakenly take the clay route home during a downpour, I have to grasp the wheel with both hands to prevent the car from sliding into a roadside gully. It shimmies and shakes with abandon, sending coins on the dashboard flying, and spilling any tea that might be left at the bottom of my cup. Still another has acres of sago palms. I pass by several owner-built homes set on 1- to 5-acre lots where there's always something interesting to see. The...

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But there is a place where you can often see mountain goats up close sometimes almost too close for comfort right from your car. It's probably getting pretty obvious that watching mountain goats requires climbing up to them in the cliffs where they live. About the time you are eating a lunch out of your day pack, the sheep will be seen finding a secure place on a ledge where they can be watchful for predators. The trail rises 500 feet in elevation on a wooden boardwalk that reaches an...

Dogs, ducks, sheep, cats and two breeds of goats Angora and Nubian were some of the animals that participants could see and sometimes pet. The family raises sheep and goats and use their wool to make clothing and fibers. The couple used to have the open house in April but endured two years of bad weather, Ball said. The event included a tour of the goat barn and a herding demonstration. One year it rained and another year it was freezing cold, she said, so we decided to move it to May....

That s why my husband who loves nature did not hesitate one minute in accepting the invitation of friends to visit them at their farm on his birthday. Needless to say, the lunch goat was from the same farm where cows and chicken are also breeding, all tagged and healthy. However, this beautiful farm is not just about the house, it has all elements of a wonderful retirement place and as Jennifer put it "a dream project" is in the pipeline. Though the house is not yet complete, the...