goats in the garden

i have this garden.  it is really wonderful.  

or rather, i had this garden.  it was really wonderful.  

my garden was great until some unidentified neighbors refused to tie up their very hungry goats.  those goats came, and they ate.  and they ate.  and they ate.  i used to have huge vines of green beans overtaking the whole plot, but now i just have some dried withered stems.  

well, we arrested the goats.  the goats remained tied up for two days outside my house, but no one claimed them.  at last we had to release them, because we weren't up to the task of adopting strangers' goats, and it seemed a little bold just to kill them and eat them without even finding the owners.

so they went free.  

and came back and ate some more.

ugh.

but, before my beans were destroyed, i picked FIVE green beans.  and they were delicious.