Minto-kun's new roof, and how useless it is in a typhoon
It seems that Minto-kun will stay on our farm for a little longer (a few more years). This is great news, but it also means that Minto-kun needs a permanent shelter.
Ideally Minto-kun would stay with other goats in their Grand Goat Shed:
Grand Goat Shed
Grand Goat Shed interior
But Natchan, the senior goat, doesn't like Minto-kun, and Minto-kun always makes his "I'm going to cry" face when Natchan is around. Conclusion: Minto-kun needs his own place.
So we started building one right next to the tool shed. It already has a roof!
Minto-kun's freshly built roof, occupied by Natchan and Momo-chan.
Minto-kun (left) is waiting gloomily on the side.
Our masterpiece of two pillars and a two sheets of plywood was completed despite the goats' best efforts to help.
Goats being helpful.
Goats being more helpful.
Roof is ready! Minto-kun (left) is sipping water while waiting
for Natchan and Momo-chan to leave.
... still waiting...
If this was a fairy tale, Minto-kun would be Cinderella, suffering from all kinds of injustice but finally winning it all. And there would be a happy end, Cinderella moving to the castle.
Happy end!
But this is not a fairy tale and the happy end was in fact just an intermission.
The tale continued and a typhoon came, last week, and the roof was absolutely useless in protecting its dweller against the wind and the rain.
Dramatic typhoon twist
Fortunately, the dramatic twist had a happy end too: Minto-kun was evacuated to the chicken coop, all complete with a temporary goat bed and a heap of fresh grass, and he and the chickens spent the typhoon in safety. The most rain-soaked character from this adventure was me.
Typhoon from chickens' perspective. Please note the pool outside.
MInto-kun and the chickens
The storm passed and everyone and everything survived - including Minto-kun's new roof! That was a second happy end in a row. Maybe it was a double fairy tale after all.
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