All Good
September is coming along. The weather is actually quite nice. We have had plenty of days around 20C. Summer is hanging on. I’m quite enjoying that. The goats are good. The new place is good. I’m loving it, really. Even the walk there is great now that I’m listening to audiobooks while I walk. Currently Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. It’s all good and I appreciate the good I have. My mind kinda fell in a dark hole this week, but I’m crawling back up. Appreciating the good. The football is great. Brøndby is number 1 in the league after 8 games. Miracles never cease. That’s about it. I’ll copypase a couple of Facebook entries and then on with photos.
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Good goat times today. Another lovely, warm day. The calendar says autumn in Denmark now, but we still have a little summerlife left.
I decided to take the goats out to the seperate pen again today. Just to try. The journey went a lot easier. I put A38 on a leash and just walked ahead. Mia and Mio followed without too much complaining, since they didn’t want to get left behind. Just as the gals went out on the path on the other side of the trees a group of kids came walking by. A daycare or kindergarten group I think. So they got an upclose encounter of the goat kind. Lots of laughter. It all went a lot smoother this time. And A38 wasn’t constantly bleating in the new pen this time either. Improvement! Later on Anne brought the horses out to the pen too. She takes them one by one, and I don’t think they like being seperated much. Mulle, the one that’s taken a bit of a liking to me, came first. And she started galloping around a bit. The goats were not amused. They fled in terror. I don’t think Mulle was actually exactly chasing the goats, but she was just running back and forth and the goats had to keep fleeing. Poor things. I almost didn’t laugh, a little. Once all the horses were in the pen everything seemed calmer. Until A38 noticed that Anne hadn’t closed the gate properly when she left. “I’m outta here” A38 screamed, in ny head, as she ran out of the pen. Instead of trying to get her back in I took all the goats back home to the safe pen, and let the horses have the other one to themselves. At least we had some fun and some good greens.
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Good goat times today. Another beautiful, sunny day. A lazy day with lots of sitting around with the gang. Funny start, though. I was walking down the path to the playground. Normally the girls are out in the big pasture. But they’d gone into the little one with the dark woods. So they spotted me from there before I was expecting them. A nice and loud surprising bleat from Mia, haha. And just as I was coming up a mother with a little boy and girl came around too. She had to laugh and said “I think they know you!”. The kids got to pet the goats through the fence, as I handed out some treats. To the goats. The little boy looked at me in awe and said “the man has peanuts in his pocket!”. Oh yes. If only more people were so impressed by a pocketful of peanuts. But it works on goats and kids, I guess.
When it was time to leave I got some nice bleats from A38 as well. It’s always nice when your coming and going gets registered as important enough to bleat about. She must like me after all. She’s showing a little more group mentality too. Bleating after us if I walk away from her and Mia and Mio follow. Then she’ll follow too, still at a safe distance. But just little signs that she’s feeling part of the group, even if she isn’t allowed in hoof’s distance.
And it’s lovely when we’re all just sitting in the sun and doing nothing. One of my favourite things to do.
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And videos.
And that’s all for this week, see you in the next one.
September 11th, 2016 at 23:32
Interesting to watch the goat group dynamics. A38 wants to be friendly in the worst way, but just is a bit apprehensive of those two new goats.
It’s nice to see her come up to you for a peanut and scratches. I would hope Mio and Mia would smell you on A38 and understand that she is part of the new herd now.
And I was under the impression there were more than just the goats who were afraid of the horses! And then I see you having a nice moment with one of the horses. What a nice gentle horse. Don’t you like the way horses smell? I certainly do.
I could hear a rooster crowing in the background and a chicken clucking like crazy. Do they have rabbits that hop around the pens, too? I did see the yellow cat. Have you been able to make friends with it yet?
Such a nice playground. I don’t hear as much traffic noise in the background either. It must be a little ways away from the road and probably safer for everyone, animals and people.
Glad to hear you are feeling better. Nothing like spending a beautiful day (with blue skies and puffy clouds) with some good animal friends.
September 12th, 2016 at 0:16
The new girls are awfully big compared to sweet, little A38. She’s just a mellow, sweetheart. Reminds me a lot of Kamel in many ways. I do like the horses. Especially that one, Mulle. She’s hoping for treats i think. There are bunnies too I believe, but I’m not really sure where they are or what they do. I don’t think they’re allowed to just roam around freely as some of them were at the old playground.
I don’t see the cat very often, I think she goes off on her own adventures.
This playground is a little tucked away, there’s kind of a park around it almost. It’s very nice and feels like a better neighbourhood.
September 12th, 2016 at 21:10
Wow! I am so happy you all found a good place to hang out and for the goats to live. I know the place where they were did have some nice kids and visitors, but still wasn’t quite as safe. Maybe they will have better security when they redo the old playground.
I know I read somewhere NOT to give our donkey and I assume horses, peanuts in the shell. Something about them not being able to digest them. I would check with the current playground staff about horse treats. They may have some you could give them or let you know if you could give them crackers or apples occasionaly.
You really replied quickly to my post! My husband said you had replied AFTER I had already gone to bed. We went to work early, so thought I would get back to you now.
Just finished washing windows where we live. Sure is bright in here now. Guess that means we should have been cleaning windows more often! Hee, hee.
September 17th, 2016 at 12:36
Haha, my replies here are probably a bit erratic. Most things are going on at Facebook now. So it all depends on when I see things.
I really am enjoying the new place. I think at some point I’m going to try to inquire if we could possibly stay there permanently… although I don’t want to get my hopes up because it probably isn’t possible. But at this point.. I wouldn’t mind if we could. Lovely place for the girls.
Yeah, I read up a bit on treats for horses. No peanuts for them. I’ve given Mulle some apple slices. She’s the one who keeps coming over to see if I have something for her. And now she probably won’t stop!