Improvising for the Cause

I feel like I"ve been bottle feeding critters since 2013.  I mean, every year, I feed the calves for nearly 3 months, and it does seem that every year, there is at least one goat emergency that requires somebody to be bottle fed, but usually it doesn't begin until February and I'm through with bottles by the first week of June.  At any rate, I'm bottle feeding two calves and two kids now.  Some time in the past decade goat bottles changed and when my last one wore out, I found myself back to using the little black nipples that used to go on soda pop bottles.

The plastic bottles held up for years, and I'm not complaining about the change, except, soda pop bottles have changed since I used lamb/kid nipples years ago.  I don't drink soda pop, so an idea occurred to me.  I figured I'd try a wine bottle.  A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do!  It was funny to shop for wine according to the top of the bottle, and nothing else . . . well price, of course.  I didn't want to pay top dollar for something I didn't like, so I stayed in the Cabernet section and purchased sale wine, two with a cork then as an afterthought picked up one with a screw on lid.  I can already imagine what you're thinking, but it's a good thing I conducted this experiment.

I don't ordinarily buy wine with a screw on lid, except something about the rim around the cork looked like it might be a tough fit.  Sure enough, both work, but the threads from the screw on lid are much easier to work with, so . . . I'll have to buy another bottle of wine.  Fortunately Jacob's Creek is a pretty nice Cabernet.