Fail7
Not much going on at the moment. The sun has come back and it’s very lovely. I am the complete oposite of how I used to be, I used to suffocate in the summer and live for the winter. Now I can’t stand the winter (at least the cold) but the warmer it is the better I feel. Funny how things change.
Otherwise I have been spending a lot of time messing around with the computer and virtual machines and testing Windows 7, but it’s all a bit too boring to get into. Save to say that it seems Windows 7 has a high contrast mode that is very similar to XP, which means I should be able to use it okay even with my limited eyesight. So if I can run Win7 well then there’s no reason not to buy a new supercomputer. No reason at all. Certainly not. I might very well buy a really expensive one. Not right now, but in the foreseeable future.
Also a goat video from last week: youtube.com/watch?v=uQ33Fzst9A4. Good times with warm goats. Especially Mio with his dark fur gets quite warm in the sunshine. And as if it wasn’t enough they’re practically rolling around in the ashes of the campfire spot. I don’t know what it is about that spot but it seems to be the perfect resting place for goats.
Bandit is getting a lot braver. He comes up for treats now, and doesn’t back down as much, even when three bigger boys are cornering him. He’s a little star.
In a couple of days I will be going to the doctor to have my allergies looked at. I figure I shouldn’t just keep taking anti-histamines forever without talking to the doc. Maybe he’ll tell me to just keep taking them, since they seem to help somewhat. Maybe he’ll want to do some tests. I don’t know. I’m pretty sure I have some kind of dust allergy, but how severe or if there are other things affecting it I do not know. We’ll see how it goes.
So that’s all for now.
May 9th, 2011 at 22:23
good luck with the allergy stuff! Hopefully you won’t have to take them forever & hopefully you’re just allergic to dust instead of every plant & pollen known to mankind haha. I am glad it is summer also, am loving sitting outside & listening to the birds on my breaks. Take care.
May 10th, 2011 at 21:01
Traci – Thank you! Hopefully it won’t be anything too bad. I don’t think I am allergic to any foodstuffs or such. And I don’t have a pollen allergy on the level of my mother’s at least, I know that much. But we’ll see.
Bird singing is lovely isn’t it? I like it in my goat videos when you can sometimes hear the birds chirping away in the background.
May 11th, 2011 at 2:57
It looks like an ordinary tree stump to me, but it must be something special to the goatzies.
How embarrassing! I just got the tree stump how I like it, I lay down, and then I fall off. Silly little goatzie baby.
I liked seeing all the little goats on the campfire space and then we get to see the big goatzie with the hat and brown corduroy jacket! hee, hee
I see you have as many yellow dandelion flowers as we have here. I could hear doves cooing in the background, a rooster crowing, a 747 jet airplane, and a blue truck.
It has been hot here the last two days. Yesterday when I was out with the goats, Frankie decided to jump up on the bench I was sitting on. He stretched out next to me and laid his head on my leg and made little contented noises. His body was pressed right up to me. Any closer and he’d have been in my lap.
Frank must have good memories of his first owner, a little girl. She must have held him in her lap and he enjoyed it. I think they must have sold him when he got older. Our neighbor bought him at a sale. We got to know Frankie and my husband said he needed to come live with us. That was 5 years ago.
The other two goats are 6 years old and they like scratches and to be combed, but they aren’t lap goats like Frankie. Good thing Snickers doesn’t want to sit in my lap.
Snickers has pretty feet now. We had someone (who knows what they are doing) come in and trim her hooves. It was an ordeal, but we all lived through it. She’s walking great now. We can trim the goats’ hooves, they don’t like it, but we are able to do it. Snickers is just too big and headstrong for us to do her hooves.
May 11th, 2011 at 20:17
Debster – if only we could see what the goats see. I’m sure it would be magic.
I really don’t understand the attraction of that tree stump as a sleeping place. I would think the ground would be more comfortable!
Plenty of dandelions yes. I’m not sure the goats like the yellow parts, but sometimes if I give them stalk-first then they’ll munch them down.
You heard a blue truck eh`? I’m afraid my ears are colourblind !
That was a sweet Frankie story. It’s always nice when the goats get all close. I like when they just walk over and sit down up against me. Makes me feel like I’m part of the family
I’m sure Frank is very happy where he is now. Not a bad life for a goat!
I wonder if I could get a career in donkey hoof trimming? Seems like a nice job to me.
May 12th, 2011 at 3:54
I think you would want to meet Snickers before you decide to make a career change. She has not read the book that shows the sweet donkey gently lifting her feet for the hoof trimmer to begin.
Snickers was doing lots of rolling in the dirt today. This morning she was rolling and when we got home . . . more rolling going on. Silly donkey!
We now have 3 male hummingbirds and 1 female. They are so much fun to watch. One buzzed me tonight when we got home. They are very curious little birds. They like to get up close and personal I guess.
May 13th, 2011 at 3:56
You’ve heard of “The Running of the Bulls” in Pamplona? We witnessed the “Running of the Sheep” in rural Iowa.
We were coming home the scenic route via the gravel roads, when we saw a flock of about 40 sheep running down the gravel road headed towards us. There was a pickup truck driver and his border collie dog slowly following behind the sheep.
The driver said he turns the sheep out in the morning to go to another pasture and then opens the gate and sends them closer home at night. He had a coyote attack one of the ewes, so he brings them up closer to his house (and where the fence is better).
Quite exciting to have a flock of woolies running toward you! A few of them stopped momentarily by the side of the road to grab a bite of grass on the run and to look at us.
May 15th, 2011 at 9:05
Debster – Come to think of it, maybe a career as hummingbird watcher would be better suited for me! I can just sit and watch them and record their.. humming. I think I need to go to university for something like that though.
Running of the sheep sounds quite amusing. Actually I ‘m not impressed by the running of the bulls. No, put a pack of hungry goats at one end of a road and a bunch of food at the other end, now getting in between those two things would be brave!