Country Goat, City Goat

Well, there is currently no furniture on my lawn and my lawn is no longer 12 inches tall in the dog poo zone.  I feel all classed up.

  (I am actually proud my lawn has taken it upon itself to be so plentiful and thick with NO chemicals or annoying fuckery such as bagging clippings and raking leaves. In fact, our lawn is MUCH healthier than those of our neighbors because the grass clippings remain on the lawn and I mulch the leaves and leave them in piles on the flower beds to make dirt.  Not all neat and tidy, but nature isn't neat and tidy.)


Just wait til next trash day when Old Smelly Pokey (our old couch with the spring sticking out) hits the lawn to wait for a very important date with some garbage men, it'll class this joint right up.

Using a borrowed lawnmower, I did feel a bit like I was mowing a hayfield. Cutting it kind of made me sad because the dogs were having happy fun times hiding in the long grass, only wagging tails visible--leaping out at one another then chasing around the yard like idiots.  On the other side of things, I didn't want Redford fining me for having a nice grassy field where a lawn should be--a product of their battle against urban blight. 

If I was allowed a goat, I wouldn't have trouble with long grass and a lawnmower that doesn't want to start. 

Dear Redford Township:

Goats are the environmental way to a nice, healthy, fertilized lawn and make great pets.  No more run off from the horrible chemical spray guys.  No more picking up lawn clippings and sending them to landfills.  Plus, nanny goats give milk and cheese can be made out of it. Goat poo is a lot like rabbit or deer poo and nearly odorless. Just tiny little pellets. Goats run on grass, not gas. Goats don't bite. The dogs and the goat could frolic and it would be amusing.

I also should be allowed to have 2-3 laying hens if I should so chose (not that I in particular WANT them, but I think I should have the right to keep them on my property should I change my mind) because they lay eggs.

I should be able to dig up my entire lawn if I so desire and plant it in corn, tomatoes, green peppers, or what not.  (Not that I can, nearly my entire lawn is so densely shaded I had trouble growing things in planters last summer.) I don't actually know if this is against any city ordinance but I suspect that since it doesn't fit the "sameness" and weird Stepford Wive-ish yard style Reford wants (to distinguish itself from Detroit and Brightmoor) that it probably is.