The Big Six
Today will be a good day. Here’s Herman from 2014.
13/8 2018
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Good goat times today. Muchly needed. It was a fairly cold morning with light rain. And the rain only got worse. Which lead to one of those standoffs where you tell the goats to go outside and the goats look at you and look at the rain and look at you and you get the pictured. I was a big meanie, though. Someone had left a wheelbarrow inside. So I got the goats all lined up at the door and I bulldozed them outside. Haha, no. I just moved the wheelbarrow a little that was enough to scare the goats out in the rain. I know, I’m horrible. I think they forgave me once we made it to the goat house and I handed out treats.
And then, lots of sweetness in the goat house. Listening to the rain. Relaxing. Giving everyone some good one-on-one time. I think grandma took a little nap while I was holding her head. After a while she stopped chewing her cud and then she was making little snoring sounds and her head started getting heavier in my hands. So sweet. I was tempted to take a nap myself, but I was in a pretty uncomfortable position. And you know how it is when you don’t want to move because you don’t want to disturb the animal. And usually I’m the one resting my head on her, only fair to let her relax like that on me.
See, I’m not always the mean wheelbarrow guy!
Eventually the rain died down and we went out to do some grazing. Usually we do the grazing in the morning and then relax in the pen when the bellies are full. Today we did it the other way around. And we went out a little further than usual. Past the kindergarten to a nice, green corner with lots of leaves. The kindergarteners were playing a game called Quiet Game. It consisted mostly of them screaming QUIET GAME 1 2 3 and then everyone’s supposed to be quiet, but inevitably none of them are quiet and so someone else yells QUIET GAME 1 2 3 and again no one is quiet and so it the QUIET GAME 1 2 3 announcement gets louder and higher pitched until everyone is just screaming gibberish. Haha. They also played some kind of superhero game, and I believe they were all girls. There were only 3 or 4 of them outside. One said “I’m Batman” (In a cute girly voice, not a gruff Christian Bale voice) and then another said “I’m Superman”. And then another one said “I’m Girl Batman” and one said “then I’m Girl Superman”. Haha. Who needs a TV when you can listen to kindergarteners. They tried calling the goats over too, but the goats were too busy with the greens and the very loud QUIET GAME wasn’t helping. Sometimes kids get the idea in their head that that they have to be really loud to get the goats’ attention, not realising that really loud kids are not something goats are terribly fond of.
Not too many visitors because of the rain today, but we did meet one of the dog-walking ladies that we’ve met before. She was very nice and we talked a little. It’s nice when you get to know people a little and they recognise you and are happy to see you.
13/8 2018
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Oh yeah, guess who’s back? I mean, guess whose front?
13/8 2018
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In the goat house with goofs. Or in the goof house with goats.
13/8 2018
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Watching the rain go by
13/8 2018
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Grandma’s ready to go nap-nap.
13/8 2018
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Today will be a good day. Happy Yogi Day. May her gentle spirit inspire us all.
14/8 2018
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goatlog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM3yjqLj6qo
14/8 2018
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It’s a lot nicer having Milo step on my foot compared to when Mio does it…
14/8 2018
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Idea for a sketch:
A guy goes into a fish store (What’s a fish store called? I don’t.. words) and tries to buy a fish. But the Fish Store Owner refuses to give him a fish, instead insists on teaching him how to fish.
14/8 2018
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I love grandma Mio all the way from her beard to her tail and back.
14/8 2018
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Exclusive outtake for the premium subscribers. I am pretty sure Mia did this on purpose. Stepped in front of the camera and started pooping.
link: Mia video
15/8 2018
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When you gotta sleep you gotta sleep
15/8 2018
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Today will be a good day. Happy hump day everyone.
15/8 2018
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Denmark VS Fox News
15/8 2018
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Mwah
15/8 2018
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Happy birthday, Mia. Six years, and hopefully many more to come.
15/8 2018
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Peanut from 2015.
16/8 2018
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Good goat times today. Cloudy, but it stayed dry and pleasantly warm. Good times grazing and browsing and entertaining visitors. Several groups of excited kindergarteners came by, amongst others. Remember that one little kid that got awfully frightened when the pygmies jumped up on the picnic table? I think that family was back. I’m not sure, because I can’t see well enough to recognise them. But it was a mother with two kids. One very young, which I believe was the scared one. But it went much better this time. The goats were in the pen, so a lot less scary. The mother said “they’re so cute, when they’re not eating our food”. She asked if the little ones could pet the goats and she lifted her over the fence so she could pet Mio, who as always stood still and enjoyed the attention. So that was a much better experience for the little kid.
I also did some work expanding the new platform I had made. Bigger and better now. And I got to chat a little with Ophelia, which was very nice.
16/8 2018
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What… are you doing?
Mia supervising the construction of the new platform. I was being a little noisy and dragging heavy things around (which they do NOT like), so Mia was kind of hiding behind the goat tower there. If I’d been a little faster with camera it would have been a cuter picture with her peeking around from the side. But when I stopped construction and took out my camera she sensed that the danger was over so she came out from hiding.
16/8 2018
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Room for two on the platform now.
16/8 2018
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respect
16/8 2018
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I tried to get grandma to get up on the platform, but this was as close as we got. Gravity is a harsh mistress.
16/8 2018
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Milo says it’s good enough to nap on. I’ll take that as a compliment.
Sky came over and started pawing the ground (it’s cute how they do that even when they’re on a solid surface) to prepare to sit down next to him, but then something must have caught her attention elsewhere because she wandered off instead of sitting down. Too bad, I would have liked a picture of them sitting side by side on the new platform.
16/8 2018
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Well, grandma didn’t make up on it, but she found it good enough to sit NEXT to, so that’s something.
16/8 2018
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Popcorn from 2015.
17/8 2018
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My jaw hurts. I probably shouldn’t have stuffed that whole pizza in my mouth in one go.
17/8 2018
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I would do anything for chocolate, but I won’t do that.
Wait, how MUCH chocolate are we talking about?
17/8 2018
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I feel off. Disassociated. Struggling to put words to the feeling. The machine keeps going.
17/8 2018
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Put a little goat on it
17/8 2018
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Black cat appreciation day? I can just imagine a horde of straight, white male cats raging about this on twitter.
18/8 2018
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Preben from 2012.
18/8 2018
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Really loud bagpipes and steel drums right outside my door. It’s been nice knowing you all, I wish you good luck during Ragnarok.
18/8 2018
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All users of the MagicGoatSelfie App should upgrade to the latest stable version. We just fixed a bug that accidentally posted selfies without goats in them. Thank you to everyone who submitted a bug report, we take these kinds of things very serious and we assure you that such a thing shall not happen again. The responsible parties have been pelted with goat berries and severely reprimanded by our CEO screaming goat.
18/8 2018
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Who nose?
18/8 2018
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.
19/8 2018
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Good dream times last night. I’ve been having trouble for a week or two getting into the real deep dreamscape, so it was great to find my way back to the magic. Well, I’m sure I’ve been going there. I just haven’t been remembering and feeling reality and dreams mix. I love whn that happens. Last night I was adventuring with Indiana Jones (although he didn’t call himself that, I think for copyright grounds) and we jumped out a plane and where kind of gliding around in the air on ropes and it was quite cool. And there were enchanted horses in a forest and doublecrossing mafia people and boobies and frying pans soaking in the sink and goats. I dreamt that Mia and Mio moved into my apartment. How cool would that be?
19/8 2018
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goatlog
19/8 2018
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Big girl and little girl.
19/8 2018
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Watching Matt Groening’s new Disenchantment show. Cute so far. But my favourite thing about it is all the Futurama voice talent on display. I miss that show. Nice to hear some of the voices again.
19/8 2018
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Bleating heads
19/8 2018
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Lots of you to love
19/8 2018
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That’s all for this week.