The Castle On The Boat On The Moat, With Goats
Today will be a good day. Mio with Bruce and Clark here. Sweet boys.
16/4 2018
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Good goat times today. Headed out early to a foggy morning. But at least it wasn’t cold. I think winterfeels are finally over. Now gimme that summershine!
Lots of fun with the goatlings. We got out a little further than we’ve been before. Well, just a few steps. But that was enough to discover a castle. Made of old pallets. It had thrones and dungeons and a holy tree on top of a tower, that Mia immediately tried to destroy. I managed to keep her away from it. But they all seemed to enjoy climbing around on it. Of course Mio mainly stayed on the ground floor. You’ll see ita ll when the videos are done eventually. I still have a big backlog, and it has something to tell you hashtag twin peaks.
The littles have picked up the essential goat trick of twisting your body around when you run to gather extra momentum. As you can imagine, it’s sofa king adorable. They don’t run very often (usually they just trundle along like two beachballs with glued on legs) but when they do take off they are so funny.
16/4 2018
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Here’s a bit of the castle. Actually, it might be a ship now that I look at it. Maybe a castle on a boat, in a moat. With goats!
16/4 2018
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Here’s an outtake from our upcoming ad campaign. The big bucks is in sponsored content.
… don’t tell them uncle is a Pepsi Max drinker.
16/4 2018
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Today will be a good day. Happy Yogi Day, everyone.
17/4 2018
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Aww, rest your case in peace Harry Anderson. I absolutely loved him to bits on Night Court. He seemed so wondeful. Also when he popped up on Cheers. Just the other day I was thinking how I kinda wanted to withdraw from the real world and just spend all my time watching Night Court and Cheers and Friends and other sitcoms that were my family and friends in the old days.
17/4 2018
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Just a little goat in a big world
17/4 2018
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Just let your light shine, everyone benefits from the brightness.
17/4 2018
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Sometimes I’m appalled at my typing. But then I realise it’s because I’m so super smart and my brain so incredily fast that there’s no way those fat, little fingers can keep up. So really, all my typos is just nature’s way of saying that I’m a very stable … let me rephrase that, a very smart person.
Yeah, works for me. Please do not fact check this.
17/4 2018
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Scenes from the castle on the boat in the moat, with goats.
17/4 2018
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Tomato season is almost back in full force. They’re good enough for the goats, almost for me too.
18/4 2018
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Pet peeve #241: When people being interviewed on TV don’t look straight into the camera, because they’re being filmed from the side but everyone is pretending they’re actually talking to a camera right in front of them. Just look at the forking camera filming you. JUST LOOK AT IT. WE’RE OVER HERE!!
Kinda like when you have a camera crew filming a camera crew filming a scene. If you’re seeing a camera crew filming a guy with a big check knocking on the winner’s door THAT MEANS THERE’S AN EXTRA CAMERA CREW FILMING THE CAMERA CREW YOU’RE SCEEING hashtag monty python lost in the jungle sketch
18/4 2018
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Today will be a good day. Happy hump day, guys.
18/4 2018
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A little goat cave for the kids.
18/4 2018
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‘Here we are now, entertain us’ is a great refrain but I don’t think it worked as a voting strategy.
18/4 2018
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Hi. Can you bring the peanuts round to this side?
18/4 2018
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Bought myself a new PC.
A cheap, refurbished one. Maybe I’ll call it… ReFurby. Anyway, I want to do Windows 10 and Linux Mint experiments on it *laughs like a crazy scientist* IT’S AAAALIIIIIVE. At least I hope it is. I haven’t turned it on yet.
So we’ll see how that all goes. Get ready for a couple of months of complaints and lightly obfuscated swearwords.
Don’t get me started on my Yahoo/Oath debacle today. I look forward to seeing the head of Verizon in front of congress in a year or two.
On the plus side, new Eels album! Mmm, that’s the stuff. I have a premonition it’s all gonna be fine. You can kill or be killed, but the sun’s gonna shine. I had a premonition that we’re gonna get by. You and I have a love that never can die. It’s not the weight that you carry, it’s how you carry it. we can get through anything, we can take the hit.
All my other musical heroes are getting assholier and assholier, but E is still the man.
18/4 2018
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Okay, one little Yahoo/Oath tidbit just for fun. Ignoring the whole “We’ll spy on your interactions with your bank” this was my favourite I think: “We’ve also added a class action waiver. These provisions are an important part of our relationship with you”
Oh I’m so glad you’ve added something that prevents us from suing your [obfuscated reference to the lower half of the human anatomy]. And I’m so glad I have to accept that if I want to keep using the email I’ve had for 20 years. What a mutually beneficial truckload of feces you just dumped on my lawn, here do you need some matches or I can go get a lighter for you if that’s better?
18/4 2018
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Sometimes… the captcha just speaks to you.
18/4 2018
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Today will be a good day. Heee’res Herman, from 2014.
19/4 2018
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Good goat times today. Can you guess what today was? I’ll give you a hint: Today was bloody gorgeous, that’s what today was. We got past 20C/70F. For Denmark that is legit summer. A summersday in April, and lovely it was. Just two downsides. 1) I don’t have the body for T-shirt weather yet. And B) I should have brought something cold to drink. The walk home was like a Walking Dead dehydration march. Straigh to the fridge to inject Pepsi Max into the veins. Also, the little butterballs are going to have to shed some of thaf fuzz soon. They were shaking from the warmth. Helped to sit in the shade and relax, though. First I took them all out to do some grazing. Perfect in the sunshine. And as I’ve said, it’s so nice that I can take all four out together, no ropes or anything. When I want to take them back in I just pick up Sky and walk back. Then I know Milo will come running and bleating after us, and Mia will follow and eventually grandma will catch up. It’s funny how Sky is a bit like Mio, calm and a little more cautious. While Milo is more like Mia, prone to hysteria and overreaction. He has opinions and demands and he will not, I say WILL NOT, be left behind. He’s so funny.
Some people stopped by in the good weather. One woman came over and said “Oh you’re out having a good time with your goats again, perfect weather for it!”. With my blindness it’s hard for me to recognise people. But she must be one of the daycare people that bring kids by now and then. A couple of kids came over to pet the goats. It’s always funny whne the little human kids are basically the same size as the tiny pygmy goats. If they got down and crawled around on all fours they’d pretty much be identical. Well, apart from the bellies. Rarely any of the human kids are as round as the pygmy littles.
Then it was back to the pen to relax. Grandma sitting in the corner of the goat house, Mia and I sitting next to her. A couple of arm’s lengths away the little ones sitting huddled up. Summers with goats, it’s the do I like to do.
I did get a little productive in between lazing around too. Gathered up some of the hay that’s been spilled and was lying around the pen. In the hopes that we’ll get some grass growing. There isn’t really grass in the horse or goat pen yet, but hopefully it won’t be long. I also gathered some of the sticks lying around, throwing them on the big pile. Mia was looking at me like “Why are you touching my stuff? I had a perfectly good system…”. Yeah, I think her system is the same one I have employed for most of my life. Leave s**t lying around wherever I drop it and it’ll probably turn up again if I need it.
Let’s hope for more days like this. I can neither confirm nor deny the rumours that I stopped off at the supermarket to buy all their iced creams, but let’s just say, I did.
19/4 2018
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A beautiful day in the goat neighbourhood.
19/4 2018
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When you set the self-timer and the goat is like ‘naw’.
19/4 2018
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This is a joke about Jack White and Jack Black and racism but it’s too controversial to type out so instead please enjoy this blank stare and mild judgment. Mission acclompfished!
19/4 2018
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I don’t understand Cardi B. I mean, as a concept.
19/4 2018
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Off to the dreamscape. Hope the sun is shining there too, under the rainbow and inside the fog. See you the morrow.
19/4 2018
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Today will be a good day. Have a Fuzzy Friday!
20/4 2018
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I took a little trip to the old playground. It’s been almost 2 years since we left the place. I can’t say it’s looking too good. I think they must have abandoned the plan to rebuild the house that burnt down. There’s a sand pit with some playthings there now. The animal areas are in total disrepair. It’s a little sad when you consider that I spent 10+ years with goats there. But then the magic was always in the goats, not the surroundings. The goats bring the magic wherever they go.
If I ever win the lottery maybe I’ll buy the lot and turn it into a goat museum. Or a pizzeria. OR A BOTH.
I have to go back and see if I can take the playhouse. I forgot to try. I’m pretty sure it’s nailed to the ground, so I probably won’t be able to take it. But I gotta try. It’s the perfect size for fat, little pygmy beach balls.
link: old playground visit video
20/4 2018
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Did I ever thank you all for how great you were while I was offlined? It was so nice the couple of times I got to log on and see people asking and wondering and caring, posting old stuff and talking. That kind of thing means more to me than having a bank account full of cash or a fancy house full of expensive furniture. I am very happy that you are parta of my life, sha la la laaa! And since I am not good at normal human behaviour and emotion, here is a premium behind-the-scenes bonus goat video, because that’s the kind of thing I can do. Love you all, whether we’re on the same page or in the opposite ends of the library. Thank you, and please remember that I am not a time traveller and if I were I certainly wouldn’t admit it on Facebook, so let’s just assume I don’t know the future PS invest in buttcoin.
link: me and goats video
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Mathilde and baby Magnethe from 2005.
21/4 2018
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The magician longs to see the colours of magic descended from pure air
21/4 2018
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I can’t believe they appointed e.coli as the new press secretary.
Hashtag not sure if the onion or not.
21/4 2018
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Fuzzybutts on parade.
21/4 2018
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Can’t eye anymore. Gotta bed. Avenge me. Party.. on… Garth
21/4 2018
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday, guys.
22/4 2018
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If I could draw I would draw a fork with a smiling face saying “I’m a forkboy” because that’s the kind of finish sentence press post
22/4 2018
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goatlog
22/4 2018
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Isn’t my new computer a beauty? Well, it’s a big, black box that hasn’t been unwrapped yet. But still. Please pardon the mess, still in the process of simplifying. A constant stream of junk being thrown out, yes still somehow there’s always more junk. Goat painting is definitely not junk.
22/4 2018
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Hmmm. Someone sent me… pampers? I guess the invitation to Maury will come later.
stay tuned!
22/4 2018
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Oh, that’s what was in the Pampers package! Big thank you to Gabi Wolff for a wonderful package! Raisins and peanuts for the goats. They will enjoy that for sure! And uncle will enjoy the treats for him and the Star Wars flash drives. Perfect!
22/4 2018
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That thing when you’re feeling a bit down so you buy a 4-pack of mini cakes. Then you eat one and save the rest. Then you decide that you’re going to be superhealthy and you don’t need cakes and you show superiority by throwing out the last 3 cakes. And then the next day you find yourself thinking “boy, I really wish I had cake”.
Story of my life condensed into the pure essence.
But it’s okay, I have carrots.*holds back tears bravely*
22/4 2018
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Oh now you’ve gone too far, uncle mad scientist! Too far by far!
22/4 2018
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Sky is on the pooped deck.
22/4 2018
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another goatlog
22/4 2018
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“AR-15 used today had been seized after that, but IL law enforcement returned it to his father who gave it back to [him]”
? I don’t even. You don’t want the government to take your guns away? Why not, apparently they just give them back with wag of the finger. I mean, the guy was arrested at the white house, wanted to “meet the president”, had multiple firearms. No alarm bells going off? At least he shot up a waffle house not a school, right? Jesus. Why does ANYONE have an AR-15? Why does a parent give it back to their son after he’s been in trouble with the law? Why is a murder more tolerable than a nipple in your movies, why on and on.
22/4 2018
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Deep breath. Let it goat.
22/4 2018
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End of Facebook. Go go goat photos.
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That’s all for this week.