Turns out there was a 15 minute thunderstorm that wreaked havoc on our yard- we lost a total of 5 trees (almost as bad as Hurricane Sandy! But thankfully, this time we only lost power for 1 day!)
A big walnut tree that was in the goat yard completely uprooted. Thank goodness the goats (and chickens) weren't hurt, and it didn't fall on the barn.
But it did take down the fence...
Our older goat stayed in the yard, but the little guys thought it was party time & climbed the tree right over the fence!
Then I turned around and saw half a pine tree had gone down across the back driveway entrance...
That one broke two sections of the white picket fence.
(Luckily it just fell short of the bigger privacy fence!)
After checking the rest of the property, we found three more trees down in the back. 
Happily, two of those fell onto the brush pile anyway!
<looking for a silver lining>
Just when we thought we had the yard in pretty good shape...
(we had literally just been saying this on Sunday!)
Our biggest concern that night was finding a place to put the goats. We moved their stuff over to the horse barn, and put them in one of the stalls. They were NOT happy (they didn't have free access to the outside from there) but at least they were safe.
Each afternoon, we let the goats out for "play time", while Mike was cutting up the tree & fixing the goat yard fence. Definitely not how we had planned to spend our evenings last week!
Next we tackled the tree across the driveway. I didn't realize how much we used both driveway entrances until this one was blocked!
The rest of the trees are going to take a while, but at least the most disruptive stuff is cleaned up!
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