The week is over. Again. There have been really good goat times. I am really happy with how the move has gone and how things are at the new place. I have still, however, felt some sadness. Maybe it’s still Palle on my mind. Or maybe it’s just the heavy blanket of depression. I don’t know. It doesn’t matter, I’ll keep on trucking and appreciate all the good things I have. Things could be worse, much worse. Tomorrow is another day, most likely. We’ll get there. Just a couple of Facebook copypastes from this week and then we’ll move on.

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Good goat times today. I got a little morning bleater greeter from A38, that was nice. Normally it’s mostly Mia with the hollering. Had a little big adventure today. I decided to take the goats to the little, seperate pen on the other side of the pathway outside. It’s a nice place with lots of vegetation for browsing. Mia and Mio enjoyed that. But they didn’t enjoy the travel so much. Even though it’s right next door. There’s a couple of narrow passages to go through. And they really don’t like that. Plus everything is still pretty new and different. So I had to work hard to get them to come. And then when I got them in there… I didn’t close the gate properly so Mio darted out and started heading back to more familiar territory. I went after her and… heard a noise, turned around and saw Mia out of the pen too. I think she must have jumped the fence. She’s not Peanut’s mother for nothing. So another bit of effort to get the both back in there and Mia securely fastened to prevent further escape. Then I went to get A38. She’s considerably easier to get to come along. Mainly because she’s not strong as an ox. She didn’t seem to enjoy the new surroundings, though. She kept bleating and bleating, and not eating. Normally she usually only bleats when one of the big gals approach her. So it was odd hearing her bleat so much. It’s not their first time out there, Anne told me she’d taken them there on Tuesday. I let Mia and Mio get a good fill of fresh leaves and then I took them all back. Which went considerably faster than the trip out. Well, at least we had a new experience! I’m not sure I’ll take them there again. It seems a little too stressful. For them I mean, not just for me. There’s a beautiful landscape beyond though. It’s like a real park. Looks like hills with trees and bushes and such. I’d love to just take Mia and Mio out there and set them free to roam and browse. Only problem is there seems to be a lot of people walking their dogs out there. And I’m not sure if it’s customary to have them on a leash or not. I wouldn’t want us to encounter loose dogs in the wilderness,
Today I decided to bring my MP3 player and listen to a book while walking the walk. I figure if I’m goin to spend 1½ hours walking I may as well get some reading done too. Makes it feel more productive. Although I did almost end up crying in public because something sad happened in The Onion Girl. Stop judging me! I’m a manly man, I’m going to go smoke cigars and high-five my hooligan friends.
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I spend most of my time at the new place with the animals. But here and there I have my little human encounters too. Here’s a little human interaction report.
Anne often comes around mid day to take the horses out to that other pen. One horse at a time. Leaving them whinnying for their turn. And of course the goats are interested in that white door they go through, because there’s food in there. Mia was trying to get to the door while Anne was taking one of the horses through. She said “No, go over to your goat guy”. And then she sort of corrected herself as if she’d said something wrong. “I mean, Lasse”. Haha. I’m used to just being the goat man (some kids called me that today too). And as she said, she’d been “the horse girl” for most of her life there.
The morning when I was the first to arrive for the first time, I had a little chat with Finbarr when he came in. I think he’s usually the one who comes in first in the mornings and let’s the animals out and then he goes and does office work or whatever needs to be done at the playground. I still very much appreciate what he said on the first day I was there, “we want you to be able to do all the things you did at the other place”.
Had a talk with Ophelia too. I asked how she thought the girls were doing. And she thought the same as me, that Mia and Mio seems to have settled in well and that they’re happy. And that the relationship with A38 is slowly improving. I told her how she’d started standing her ground a little more instead of always running away. And as we were talking, all three goats were snacking on the willow branches in the pen. “One of them is a little bossy at feeding time” she said. Haha. I wonder who that could be. Cough Mio train cough. Today she was changing the water buckets and Mio and Mia were putting their hooves up on me. And she asked me about hoof trimming. Which I’d actually been meaning to ask HER about. How they usually do it. They’re overdue for a trimming, so I’m glad we got that brought up.
And so on and so forth. Humans. Not only the most dangerous game *twirls moustache*, but also the most confusing.
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And videos.

And that’s all for this week, see you in the next one.

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