Comments on: Rural Unexpected Profession #42: Goat Manicurist http://www.dougfine.com/2006/12/13/rural-unexpected-profession-42-goat-manicurist/ Personal website of author Doug Fine Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:14:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Doug Fine: Author, Journalist, Adventurer, Goat-Herder » Blog Archive » Mozzarella Calisthenics http://www.dougfine.com/2006/12/13/rural-unexpected-profession-42-goat-manicurist/comment-page-1/#comment-14672 Doug Fine: Author, Journalist, Adventurer, Goat-Herder » Blog Archive » Mozzarella Calisthenics Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:57:33 +0000 http://dougfine.dreamhosters.com/?p=10#comment-14672 [...] that affect my immediate daily life and those of my neighbors (like rainfall needed for beans, behavioral modification necessary for goats, or acreage required for rural property tax breaks), and that seem so foreign to many if not most [...] [...] that affect my immediate daily life and those of my neighbors (like rainfall needed for beans, behavioral modification necessary for goats, or acreage required for rural property tax breaks), and that seem so foreign to many if not most [...]

]]> By: admin http://www.dougfine.com/2006/12/13/rural-unexpected-profession-42-goat-manicurist/comment-page-1/#comment-4 admin Mon, 07 May 2007 18:43:49 +0000 http://dougfine.dreamhosters.com/?p=10#comment-4 Yep. I find myself an amateur student of how t-shirts age. This one, for whatever reason, can survive the basic as well as the secondary rigors of rural life: goat defecation, excessive washing and line drying, and of course lying-crumpled-in-the-back-of-the-truck-for-weeks-after-the-last-hotsprings-soak. For those not familiar with the Kluane to Chilkat International Bike Relay to which Oliver refers, it's a whacky tradition shared between the weirdos of Canada's Yukon and the even Weirdo-ers of Haines, Alaska. I think the link to an NPR story I did about it is under tthe NPR link here on the Dispatches blog. Oliver, by the way, chose the R-rated name for the team (was that really our name? What does that even mean? I mean, I perceive lots of innuendo...anyway, don't answer. I told the Web host this is a family site. And was that the year Ramsey rode across the border in his birthday suit, yelling, "Nothing to Declare!"?) Hope all's great with you, O. Yep. I find myself an amateur student of how t-shirts age. This one, for whatever reason, can survive the basic as well as the secondary rigors of rural life: goat defecation, excessive washing and line drying, and of course lying-crumpled-in-the-back-of-the-truck-for-weeks-after-the-last-hotsprings-soak.

For those not familiar with the Kluane to Chilkat International Bike Relay to which Oliver refers, it’s a whacky tradition shared between the weirdos of Canada’s Yukon and the even Weirdo-ers of Haines, Alaska. I think the link to an NPR story I did about it is under tthe NPR link here on the Dispatches blog.

Oliver, by the way, chose the R-rated name for the team (was that really our name? What does that even mean? I mean, I perceive lots of innuendo…anyway, don’t answer. I told the Web host this is a family site. And was that the year Ramsey rode across the border in his birthday suit, yelling, “Nothing to Declare!”?)

Hope all’s great with you, O.

]]> By: oliver http://www.dougfine.com/2006/12/13/rural-unexpected-profession-42-goat-manicurist/comment-page-1/#comment-3 oliver Mon, 07 May 2007 18:21:01 +0000 http://dougfine.dreamhosters.com/?p=10#comment-3 hey i recognize that t-shirt in the first photo.........wasn't that the year you rode on my team?...."team rode hard and put away wet" ha ha.....oliver hey i recognize that t-shirt in the first photo………wasn’t that the year you rode on my team?….”team rode hard and put away wet”

ha ha…..oliver

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