“Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat.”

They're back! En route to Kaleo Cafe (one of our favorite wi-fi spots) today, I caught a glimpse of the bearded brown-scarfed gardeners grazing on the hillside at Laguna Honda Hospital. Apparently this is the 4th year that the City has brought in 600 South African Boer goats from Monterey County's Sycamore Farms for this late-summer landscaping project: to munch on 22 acres of overgrown vegetation to reduce rat and yellow jacket (wasp) habitat and the chance of fire.

I was especially amused by the RFP for this job, which said "clearing must be performed by goats and supervised by goatherders who will stay on site with the goats to monitor cutting activity... The city to be held harmless for any loss of goats, theft or otherwise." HI-Larious!