"Ode to Billy"

Oh Billy, seems like yesterday daddy tossed you over his shoulder and wrestled the State Fair crowds to get to our van, we had just purchased our first baby goat! You bleeted all the way home, making us wonder what we had just done. The crowds of people turned their heads as they wondered suspiciously whether that man, (daddy) had a stuffed animal he had just won, or was it real? The noise and wriggling confirmed the realness of this unusual scene. I was sure that we had made the newspapers; "Nortel Employee Carries Baby Goat through Suspicious, Gawking Crowd!"

Through the years you ate our daffodils, you climbed our outside grill, you ate our neighbors Gerber daisies. You bucked the pigs, you bucked the cows, you thought you were the "King Kidd!"

You walked around with a baby chicken on your back until it was fully grown, we're sure we heard it cluck, "momma!" You were spotted leaping and frolicking in the pasture, a joy for me to see.

You escaped our fences, you twisted our arms, then your worse offense; you died.

We love you Billy. The Best Nest Farm will not be the same!