Buffalo? Goat?
As we were driving country roads west of Chapel Hill, NC, we made our way to Saxapahaw (pronounced Saxapaw).
It was late and. Although we were on the Bethlehem Chapel — Saxapahaw Highway, it was little more a country road. We passed a corn field, a dairy farm and; just before the place that sells rabbits, it caught my eye. I was going too fast to stop and the road was too narrow for a U-turn.
The little fenced pasture had a gathering of goats watching me looking at them as I sped by. But, wait, standing in the back of the gathering it looked up and winked! (I think it winked)
What the devil was it? It looked like a buffalo, but the size of a goat! I asked my wife, she had missed it. She thought I was too tired to drive.
We went to the open house at Haw Village.
But I couldn’t get it out of my mind.
Later we drove back to see more houses; no goats.
I went back myself, no goats.
Today Sam and I went slowly up the Old Greensborough Highway, Left onto the Bethlehem Chapel — Saxapahaw Highway slowed before the Rabbits sing and, there were goat!
And, way back under the tree was the BuffaGoat/Goatalo.
I stopped. I spoke kindly to the goats, they came near, but not the BuffaGoat/Goatalo.
He was shy, I spoke more kindly. He stepped out of the shadows. I now have a picture of the elusive BuffaGoat/Goatalo of Alamance County.
The size of a goat, the characteristics of a buffalo and I have pictures to prove it.
