For Soup And Country
It’s been a nice week. We’ve had more snow, but also a good deal of sunshine. I got presents and cards and magnets from Facebook friends. And a lovely package from the one and only Debster. Thank you, Deb! A very nice package. I have quite the Pheasants Forever hat collection now! And I wore a pair of the socks today. They are quite smooth and nice. And the crocheted cloths will go into my kitchen very nicely! The soap is smelling lovely and the christmas decoration is hanging from a drawer handle within eyesight. Good tidings! Thank you so much, and please say thanks to the husband and the animals as well! Hope everyone is doing well.
Today I went back to my parents’ place for the last supper. I mean the last soup. In the hold house at least. My parents will be moving out right after new year’s. I’ll still be going over there a couple of times before then, but this was the last soup gathering in the house I grew up in. Sniffle. But good soup and good times and now leftovers for a few days as always. It’s all good.
Meanwhile, in goat news.
Bob looking for hay in a haystack.
Snow in the suburbs.
Snow in the streets of Århus.
Road to the playground.
A bird in the snow. They must get cold feet.
Kamel doing a headroll. I love when they do that. Kamel and Bob do it quite frequently.
Mia looking particularly adorable.
Scratchies for Mia.
Mia and I. There may be some forced perspective in the picture, but her head is almost bigger than mine now…
Mio camouflaged in the snow.
Periodically Mio goes to that spot at the fence and looks towards the main office building of the playground. And if she sees people she’ll start baahing. “DINNER TIME PLEASE?”. If she hears people inside the stable she’ll usually go to the far end of the fold and look up at the windows and baah at them from there. It’s funny when you know goats so well that you start to learn their habits.
Sun shining on the snow.
And up above the sun is shining.
A snowcone on the fence.
And videos.
First off is one of my favourite videos of all time. Mia and Bob playing in the snow. Running around, chasing each other. Sprinting and jumping. So much fun, so cute. Several times Bob runs up to Preben and jumps in the air as if to challenge him and then runs away to safety. A perfect winter interlude.
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Goatlog from Monday. More snow, more fun.
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And finally goatlog from Thursday. A beautiful day with lots of sunshine and snow still on the ground.
That’s the lot for today. Everyone take care out there. It’s a big bad world out there sometimes, so be good for goodness sake.
December 17th, 2012 at 20:26
Hay, hay! I’m glad you received your gifts and liked them. I sent out a package to my friend in Australia last week with hardly any trouble at all. Although I did go to a different post office!
I loved seeing Bob and Mia running and chasing after each other. Lots of jumping and twisting and snorting going on in those videos. When our boys were little, we used to play “Gonna get a goat” where I would run after them and chase them, then they would run after me.
Bob is so funny with his standing up near Preben, then running away just as fast as possible. I swear in one video, Mia tossed her head as if to say to Bob: “Come on, I’ll race you” and off he went after her.
The pictures and the video of where you live are beautiful. I liked the last video beginning with the sun shining. I remember you made a video where you were walking down the path either to or from the playground in the snow, I think, and we saw the snow sweeper and the little creek. You also had a video of where you shopped for groceries and other things.
I think those are so interesting to see what your surroundings are like – the houses, the playground, your walking paths, etc. Makes me feel like I’ve actually been there to visit with you.
You will have to show us where your parents are moving to and what their place looks like when they get moved in. Are they moving everything themselves or hiring someone or a combination of both? We moved everything ourselves with some help of friends in 2010. Then we ended up helping 2 other people move that year. I certainly had enough of moving things two years ago.
December 19th, 2012 at 18:31
Debster – It was a lovely package, thank you very much! Worth all the postal trouble. At least for me it was !
I wish I could play “Gonna get a goat”. I try a little sometimes, but because of my eyeight I can’t really run around too much. The other day I walked around Mia in a cricle and she started spinning around and jumping away. Maybe she thought I was going to chase her!
It was lovely to see Bob running around like that, nice to see that he’s still a little kid in his heart.
Maybe I’ll make some more videos of my surroundings some time, just for you! A little tour of my world. The little bit of the video with the sun was from the road outside the “complex” where my parents live, at least for the next couple of weeks until they move. I have walked down that road hundreds of times as a kid on my way to school. And I still walk up and down it when I go to the playground.
I think my parents will be hiring help for the move, but I haven’t talked to them about it. I think there’s too much stuff to move for them to handle it, even with help from friends. I don’t think we know anyone with trucks or anything like that, and we don’t even havea car ourselves.. They aren’t moving too far away though. I shall have to inquire.
Are you sure you guys can’t come over and help? Teeehee. There might be some soup in it for you!
December 22nd, 2012 at 0:28
Oh, I would like that (videos of your area – birds, houses, cars), I’m a “nosy nelly” and like to see what you encounter in your day to day life.
Well, we survived winter storm “Draco”. We went out during the blizzard yesterday to feed animals – boy was that tough! Whenever you watch TV or movies about blizzards, they aren’t exaggerating one bit. The wind was blowing 30 to 35 mph with higher gusts of wind.
You couldn’t see or hear because of the howling wind. We made sure the goats and donkey had water and hay. The cats and dogs were holed up in their houses, so we fed them in the morning.
No wind this morning, just sunshine and snow. We probably had 1 1/2 inches of rain before it turned to snow. And although we only had between 3 – 4 inches of snow, there were some big drifts. Not as bad as last year in February when we had blizzard conditions and 20 + inches of snow.
All the animals were fine and John Boy took a little walk out into the snow, then decided to turn around and walk back into the pen and stand in the sun with Billy. Frank and donkey were busy making nose holes into the hay my husband gave them.
We were out and about today on the highways and they were mostly clear and all clear in the afternoon after the sun had been shining all day. Still saw a few cars in the ditch and we came upon one accident that had just happened as the police, ambulance, and fire trucks were all rushing to the scene. One person was sitting in the snow with his leg stuck out like there was a problem with it.
Both cars were in town and probably going fairly slowly, but still had damaged the front ends pretty good. Glad we weren’t right there when it happened!
Mmmm. . . the promise of soup would almost be enough for us to come help your parents move! hee, hee We are “expert” movers, too with all the practice we’ve had helping others. Most important is to have handy is sheets and pillows ready so you can sink into bed once you’re moved and to know where the toilet paper has been packed!
A box of kitchen stuff and some easy to make food/drink will keep you going that first few days till all the boxes are unpacked and things are put away in their new places.
We have two pick-up trucks and an enclosed trailer (for work) that we used to haul our belongings when we moved and helped others move. We also have a 4 wheeler with a snow blade and a snow blower to use to dig ourselves out.
My husband has a chainsaw to help his friend cut wood or cut up tree limbs after a storm. We also have a generator for back up when our electricity goes out as we have a propane furnace for heating.
We sound like those “doomsday preppers” ready for anything, but since we live in the country, you need to be able to take care of yourself for awhile during a snowstorm or bad thunderstorm, etc. Our landlord is a farmer, so he’s really handy about fixing anything and everything. Of course, you have to be that way to be a farmer otherwise you’d go broke having to pay someone else to fix things. He’s really self-sufficiant.
December 22nd, 2012 at 10:14
Will you be making a Christmas video special this year?
December 22nd, 2012 at 19:12
Rghy – I plan to try, but whether I upload it or not depends on how it turns out. So we’ll see.
Debster – Glad you survived the storm! Sounds like it was quite the Gryffindor. Hope the folks in the accident were alright. We don’t get many storms in Denmark so on the rare occasion we get a little bit of wind it’s always big news.
For a second I thought you were saying that your husband had a chainsaw that he used to help people move! That would be some help… I’ll just chop this bed in bits, that’ll make it much easier to move! We live in the suburbs, more or less I guess, so not much need for chainsaws or the like around here.
December 25th, 2012 at 0:27
My husband finally got around to reading your blog and said: “I think Lasse thinks we are going to help his parents move”. I said: “That’s right, pack your bags cause we’re out of here and headed to Denmark!”
All I heard was: “WHAAAAT?” hee, hee