DRIPPING SPRINGS BABBLE: DRIPPING GOATS: WE GOT YOUR GOAT (NO FOOLIN'!)

DRIPPING GOATS: WE GOT YOUR GOAT (NO FOOLIN'!)

Dripping goats in Dripping Springs.

Dripping's own Pure Luck Farm and Dairy blogged on March 30 that: "Kidding season is over! Most of our goats have had their babies now, and we are back in full production! One weekend last month, we had 10 goats having babies at the same time!"

Read their blog entry which details where they sometimes find the babies with their free-roaming mamas. Sweet!

We have never been successful when it comes to a good April Fool joke. Plus, in our book, that guy who made the mummified fairy in 2007 wins. We did think about Photoshopping a bluebonnet into a Dripping landscape, but thought that would just be cruel (C'mon bluebonnets!). But what is definitely cropping up around Dripping, no foolin', are baby goats. Living here, we've become accustomed to the many goats of Dripping Springs, and how goats are an intrinsic part of Dripping's identity. Dripping's Pure Luck makes world renown goat cheese, and when the city did one of those charity "art herds", the artists created colorful, whimsical, and dramatic goatly visions. We snapped the photo to the left earlier this week, and it's only a fraction of that particular frolicking herd of goats and kids. But while we see the many goats and eat their delicious cheese, we have not eaten goat meat around here since our PawPaw owned the Driftwood General Store (and that was many moons ago). He and his buddy Clarence would (ear muff it, kids) cook cabrito that melted in your mouth. While we're surrounded by goats, interestingly enough, it appears that New York City restaurants are the ones now leading the way when it comes to goat meat on the menu. New York City! It was this article in yesterday's NY Times (registration required) that really got our goat.