Instabilities & Utilities
Today will be a good day. It’s the first day of the rest of our lives, so make it good. I’ll try to keep it light.
9/10 2017
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Good goat times today. A lovely, sunny morning. Though the air felt cold against my skin. But dry and sunny is what we want. Fair bit of goat wrangling today again. When I got there Mia and Mio were chained up outside the pen. Work is still being done to the fences. They’d gotten their chains a bit tangled up and grandma was in a growly mood, banging heads with poor Mia. There was grass where they were standing, but not really that good quality. So I figured I’d take them down to the alt pen. I went and got A38, who was just chilling inside. Took them all down to the other pen. Unfortunately I found that I couldn’t get the padlock unlocked with my old key. Oh well. Tied the goats down outside the pen and spent some time like that. With bemused bypasser and of course the requisite “is she pregnant? …no really, is she?” question. Eventually Alice came. She told me that they hadn’t changed the lock for then pen. When I tried it again… it worked. It’s just a very stubborn lock. But I got it opened and took the goats in there. As I’ve said, the only problem with that pen is that Mia can easily jump the fence. That’s not a problem when I’m there, because then she doesn’t want to get out. And even if she did I could get her back in. The problem is when I’m not there. Finbarr came by and mentioned they’d had a complaint the other day about a goat walking free. Haha. Oh Mia. Why is the grass always greener on the side of the fence where you aren’t supposed to be?
They’ll probably be spending more time in that pen, though. Alice told me that they had discovered that the fences around the horse pasture weren’t just stuck in the ground. They were stuck in concrete and stuck in the ground. Which mean they can’t just pull them up for the work they’re doing. They have to have a digging machine thing to come by and dig it all up. so it’s going to take a bit longer. But hopefully it’ll be good when it’s all done, with new, good fences and a new goat stable and who knows what else. We just have to get through the wait and the mud.
It was really nice today actually. Once all the goats were in the pen (A38 made her escape once when I was getting Mia and Mio in. She can run when she wants to!). I sat back against the fence. The sun shining down on me from a blue sky. The temperaturre risen to a point where I could feel the warmth of the sun on my skin instead of cold air. The goats walking back and forth in the undergrowth. I could almost imagine it was summer again and everything was as it should be.
Until I had to leave of course. What do you do about a problem like Mia? I had to tie her up in the pen. I hate doing that. Mio and A38 can’t jump the fences. One is too heavy and the other is too small and well behaved. So I let them go free and tied Mia down. Problem is that there are so many trees in the alt pen. There is literally no place I can put the spike down in the ground and have enough space around her to avoid her getting the rope tangled up in the trees. Which means 10 minutes after I’ve gone she could be stuck in place, tangled up in a tree. Not fun, and potentially dangerous with the horses. She had a couple of close encounters with Black Beauty already, could be a problem if she couldn’t move away. so I ended up tying her leash to the fence. Which means she was standing right next to the fence of course. I was hoping that she wouldn’t have enough room to get a running start and jump over the fence. But even if she jumped over she’d still be tied to the fence so she wouldn’t be able to just run off and cause complaints from the neighbours again. So I left her like that. The minute I went out of sight she started bleating in a panic. And bleating and bleating. And as I walked away, suddenly her bleats sounded like her mouth was full. I went back to look. And she’d jumped the fence. Oh Mia. You couldn’t wait 30 seconds. She was still bleating after me because I was gone but she was simultaneously eating leaves on the bushes she now had access to. No reason to stop eating even if you’re panicking! Haha. Well. In the end I decided the best solution was to keep her tied up outside the pen. I don’t like doing that, but at least like that she has plenty of fresh vegetation. The horses can’t bother her. She can’t cause trouble. It’s not ideal. But I guess it’ll work. At least she’ll have a lot to snack on when she calms down after I’m gone.
Oh goats. I wish I could fast forward to springtime when it’ll be sunny and dry and warm and there’ll be no mood and presumably there will be new fences and a new goat stable and who knows what else. The end.
9/10 2017
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The troublemaker
9/10 2017
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At least she doesn’t have to worry about grandma knocking her head.
9/10 2017
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If there were more blue skies I’d have the blues less often.
9/10 2017
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‘m sorry if I’m all over the place these days. I am quite unstable. Still adjusting to the readjusted meds adjustment. Not going so well yet. And it’s just. The Vegas thing. The politics. The mud. The submarine. The family stuff. It’s all been adding up. And there’s something else too, but I don’t want to talk about that yet. The cold makes me sad. When I wake up in the morning now it’s so dark that I can’t see the “TODAY IS A GOOD DAY!” wall sticker that Joan sent me. Feels like things have been piling up. But I’m doing my best. I am only human after all, allegedly. Thanks all for sticking with me. Keep leaving those pizza crumbs to lead me back to the good place.
And now, bedtime. I’m so tired that my head hurts and I feel like throwing up. I’m going to go dream my problems away, because that always works. Here’s to love and peace on Earth. Either one would be nice.
9/10 2017
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Today will be a good day. We are not alone, we are many.
10/10 2017
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It’s a pizza and chill by myself kinda day.
10/10 2017
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Today is World Mental Health Day. So I ordered extra cheese.
Just kidding. I always order extra cheese.
Hope you all have good mental health. I know I sure have, extra cheese.
10/10 2017
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Where’s Yogi? She might win this round.
10/10 2017
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Hey people. Do you like goats? Do you enjoy calendars? Do you like movies about gladiators? Can you correctly identify different kinds of trees from quite a long way away? If you can answer yes, no or maybe to any of these questions then listen up.
Many of you know Jessica Pottebaum and her wonderful goats. She’s selling a calendar and I’d like to support her and to make some people happy. So if you want one of her calendars FOR FREE then leave a comment on this post. The first 4 to do so will get a calendar paid for by me.
TLDR Goats Gone Grazing Acres calendar to the first 4 commenters.
10/10 2017
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I think we need a closer look at A38. Love your face.
10/10 2017
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goatlog. Keeping it light.
10/10 2017
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updated his profile picture.
We are the Porg. Resistance is futile.
10/10 2017
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Here is my extended cut of The Last Jedi trailer. Dedicated to Lynne Howard
link: Kevin Smith trailer reaction video
10/10 2017
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I want my wedding to be held in a pizza place. And I don’t really want to get married, I just want the pizza.
‘With this tomato ring I thee wed’
11/10 2017
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I believe not having easy access to pancakes is a human rights violation. Stop oppressing me. I demand House Of Pancakes setup branch in Denmark.
11/10 2017
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Today will be a good day. Happy hump day, guys.
11/10 2017
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You’re a fruitcake with nuts.
11/10 2017
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Keeping it light as a feather
11/10 2017
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Where’s Yogi?
11/10 2017
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Here’s another video dedicated to my fellow Porg lover, Lynne Howard. So glad you’re on our team! We are the Porg collective, you will be assimilated!
link: Mia porg bleat video
11/10 2017
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That thing when you really want to debate someone. On every single thing they post. But you know that way lies madness. Someone tell me which way lies goats, I should probably head in that direction instead.
11/10 2017
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What happened to my debate post?
11/10 2017
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Are we? Falling… in. Love. This time
I only want to be, with you
11/10 2017
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Today will be a good day. Go for it.
12/10 2017
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Good goat times today. The weather was a mixed bunch. Pretty sunny while I walked there. But later on it was a mix of sun, rain and sometimes very strong wind. So it goes. I took the goats down to the alt pen. It’s getting muddy down there too now, but it’s still way better than the regular pen. Of course I had to do some goat wrangling along the way. Today A38 was the troublemaker, believe it or not. I decided to let her run free while I got the great whites down to the other pen. Thinking it would be no problem. Then when I went to get her, I couldn’t find her anywhere. I went around looking for her thinking “I HAVE LOST YOGI”. Then I went back down to the alt pen to check and there she was casually eating greens across the path. Sheesh. Later on she slipped out of the pen because I hadn’t closed the gate properly. And when Mio saw that she ran right after her. I managed to shut the gate just before Mia got out too. Then I had to tie her up while I went and got the two others back because otherwise she’d have jumped the fence to follow. Nothing but trouble those goats. Maybe I should become a scruffy looking hamster herder instead.
Yeah, things are a little messy right now. I think it will be a couple of weeks before the fence construction is done. Maybe more. We’ll just have to get trough it. If we stick together I think we might make it. I’ll get the superglue.
12/10 2017
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Just out walking mah Yogi.
12/10 2017
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Oh yes, for those who wondered. Yes, they are berries. Not goat berries, but berry berries. Mr and Mrs Barry Berries and their kids, the Junior Berries.. I think I took this too far.
12/10 2017
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I am now a berry photographer. Please respect my life choices.
12/10 2017
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I want to hang a painting with the text “Do Not Even” on my wall, crookedly.
12/10 2017
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I’m glad I made it out to see the goats today. I almost didn’t. I was in bed and decided to stay in bed. Because getting out of bed is a human rights violation. But then I reconsidered and decided I should force myself to go. And then I looked at my alarm clock and saw that it was so late in the day that it was pretty much pointless getting up and that I should go. BUT. Then I realised I was dreaming. And I looked at my ACTUAL alarm clock. And it was still fairly early in the morning. Yes. My dream tried to trick me into staying in bed. Tricksy dreamsies. So I did manage to force myself up and out and away, and I’m glad I did. I just thought it was funny. I feel like my dreams are getting even stronger. A couple of times lately I have experienced that thing when you’re in a dream and you realise it’s a dream. That’s when the dream usually becomes some degree of lucid. But recently instead of becoming aware it’s a dream, the dream has convinced me that I’m awake. Even when I ‘test’ the dream it doesn’t buckle. I have mentioned it before, but another thing is how I used to not be able to read text in dreams. It would be gibberish. But now I can read text. It makes sense. And even further, the other day there was a kind of.. visual puzzle. I forget the exact details, but it was on a blackboard in school. And it was like one of those things with lots of seemingly random letters and you have spot the words in them. Only this was some kind of mathematical equation. And I was able to look at it and pick out the patterne and understand it. So I feel like my dream muscle is still getting stronger and stronger. Who knows. Some day I may be able to completely withdraw into a dream and never come out again.
Or maybe that has already happened. Maybe this is the dream. Hmm. I wonder if I can write in dreams. I can’t recall it ever happening. I would need a pretty darn strong dream muscle to be able to write all this rambling nonsense.
The thing that almost made me aware it was a dream last night was looking out the window and seeing thick frost everywhere. Having to wipe it away to even close the window. And a couple of nights ago I dreamt that it had snowed, even though it was summer in the dream. I hope those aren’t bad omens. The actual weather forecast seems promising. Shouldn’t be any frost here yet.
So anyway, I write many word
12/10 2017
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That thing when you’re hanging with your goat, amirite?
12/10 2017
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Time to head to dreamland again. I can’t stay away for long. Or awake for long. We’ll see if I ever make it back out. When you see me again it won’t be me. Or maybe it will. Tell me the codephrase “Solyent green is furries” and if I reply with “What the heck are you talking about, I thought I blocked you a long time ago” then it’s me. If I respond with anything else then alert the authorities and meet me at the secret rendez-vouz in Schwitzerland. Also, how do you spell Schwitzerland? How do you do, har du slugt en flue?
12/10 2017
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Today will be a good day. Happy #FlashbackFriday guys, with Ping and Pong.
13/10 2017
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Every beginning is an ending
13/10 2017
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In the good pen
13/10 2017
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Colourful banquet
13/10 2017
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goatlog
part 1
part 2
13/10 2017
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Who ordered the goofball sandwich?
13/10 2017
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autopilot into outerspace
13/10 2017
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Snapshots from my hood. That apartment block is right next to mine. I don’t know if you can tell, but you can currently see right through it. They’ve ripped out some of the apartments there. And they’ll rip out the walls and floors in that section too. They’re making a hole in the building and leading a road right through it. It’s going to look pretty spectacular when it’s done I think. And luckily I live right next to it so I get to hear construction work for year, hooray!
13/10 2017
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If when eating an ice cream cone you don’t start by biting off the bottom tip first then you may have just failed the Turing test.
13/10 2017
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New alternate universe who dis?
14/10 2017
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Today will be a good day. Every one is precious.
14/10 2017
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Aarhus, in the middle of our street.
They forgot to mention the goats. Pfft, tourists.
link:nytimes 36 hours in Aarhus
14/10 2017
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Got my utilities bill for the year. I pay a monthly fee for heat, water and electricity. Then once a year they tally up how much I have actually used and then I either get money back or have to pay what I owe. Last year I got about 320 dollars back. This year… I have to pay about 220 dollars. Oops. Haha. Well, I was expecting that. I have changed some habits. Especially with the heating. So I was actually afraid I’d get a huge bill. 220 is big, but I can afford it. And it’s worth it to stay warm. Maybe I’ll limit the sauna to the winter months for now, but no way I’m taking down the all-year christmas lights and fountain in the courtyard.
Ah, now it’s a year until I have to worry about that stuff. Bills can’t hurt you until you actually know how big they are.
link: E lec tri ci ty video
14/10 2017
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When you’re gorgeous and you know it
14/10 2017
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goatlog
14/10 2017
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You better be getting my good side…
14/10 2017
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Soft like fluffy clouds
14/10 2017
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Can you please stop time? Can you stop this pain? I feel too cold. And now I feel too warm again.
14/10 2017
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday, guys.
15/10 2017
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We are just temporary glitches in the mainframe
15/10 2017
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some goatlogs
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15/10 2017
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Hold on
15/10 2017
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he crazies took over the asylum. And handed it over to the crooks.
15/10 2017
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Don’t let go
15/10 2017
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When your friends talk about things that aren’t goats.
link: Mind’s eye video
15/10 2017
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Judo-Christians vs Ninjas.
15/10 2017
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Goat company
15/10 2017
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End of Facebook, go go goat photos.
That’s all for this week.