golden days are gone

Looks like our fall is over, it has been the mildest, prettiest  and longest I can remember. Cleaned out the shearing barn yesterday so the younger kids and does and lambs could get in out of the cold rain and frost. They have a barn on the hill pasture but refuse to sleep there, instead  they prefer to just hang outside the gate of the shearing barn waiting to be let in. So after a couple of months I gave in and opened the gate. Goats are stuborn. Extreme weather can take a toll on the young kids, older goats have more fat on them and can usually make it. Sometimes you have to be their parent and make them come in out of the weather.