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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3257651, member: 56859&quot;]More local fun...</p><p><br /></p><p>From the rare Gummy Vine:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]856233[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There ARE <b><u>NO</u></b>!! ICe Cream At This Momment</p><p>[ATTACH=full]856234[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Lush pastures:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]856237[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The morning after hurricane Irma everyone was feeling the need for life-affirming activities... including this frog and toad:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]856239[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Edited:&nbsp; maybe this isn&#039;t a frog/toad mating pair... might be Cuban Tree Frogs, which are sexually dimorphic.)</p><p><br /></p><p>A random sight while driving into work one morning:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]856246[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Mobile goat:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]856247[/ATTACH]</p><p>I saw this adorable goat tied up in the back of a parked truck on my street. Random livestock itself is not unusual-- but not in my neighborhood. It was adorable. I got out of my car to take a picture. I swear it was smiling at me and wagging its goaty tail.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wrong. It was scared witless and freaked out when I got close, jumping around and leaping out the back of the truck! <b>OH NO!</b> <i>Short rope!</i> I dropped my phone and ran over, wondering if I was strong enough to un-hang a heavy goat. In that second or two I felt horrible--poor goat!--and I imagined an angry owner screaming that I killed his goat*.</p><p><br /></p><p>Crisis averted. The rope was juuuuust long enough for the goat to jump in and out of the truck bed. Mobile grazing, I guess. Very innovative <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>*Probably wouldn&#039;t have mattered.&nbsp; Goat stew (&quot;goat water&quot;) is popular here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hover goats, a Greek innovation:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/macedon-philipv-hovergoats-rt-jpg.712599/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>KINGS OF MACEDON, Philip V</b></p><p>221-179 BCE</p><p>Tetrachalkon (AE 22 mm, 8.37 gm, 12 h), struck circa after 186</p><p>Obv: Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress</p><p>Rev: BA / Φ Two goats recumbent right; below, grain ear</p><p>Ref: Mamroth, Bronzemünzen 14c. SNG Alpha Bank 1090. SNG Copenhagen 1250.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/026/657/hovercat-i-want-to-believe.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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