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Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone.
28/9 2020
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Good goat times today. Twas a mostly grey day. A little scattered rain here and there. I would have stayed pretty much dry though, if it wasn’t for a little mishap. I guess it rained overnight and a pool of water had gathered on the tarp covering the shelter in the goat pen. I waned to do some filming on the platforms so I went under the shelter to set up my camera on the tripod. And I managed to bump up against the roof and… well down came a big pool of water. Eep. Thankfully it’s not freezing cold. Probably around 15C/60F. So it could have been worse. But i got a taste of how Mia felt last week when she stood on the pilebranch in the rain. A wet back. At least she had sunshine to dry in. I wasn’t so lucky. But thankfully the big splash didn’t hit my camera.
Other than that it was a pretty quiet day. When a little bit of rain started coming in we withdrew to the goat house, all 7 of us. The newb squad in their back room and Mia snuggled up close with her little adoptees Milo and Sky in the front room. They looked so sweet together. And Mia was pretty tired. She started nodding off, resting her head on my leg. So sweet. I held her head and listened to her breathing in and out, turning into snoring periodically. Every now and then her body would twitch. I wonder if goats dream? And if goats dream, I wonder if they ever dream of me.
It was perfect sweet calm and love. All the crazy fun stuff is crazy and fun, but there’s nothing better than just feeling that trust and bond and being quietly together. Not worrying about making content for the page, not fighting for treats or hierarchy, not entertaining visitors. Just being close and content. Website content is nice, a content feeling is nicer.
28/9 2020
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Here is Mia dreaming of sweet treats and soft bleats. And Sky and Milo snuggled up close.
28/9 2020
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Can’t wait to hear all the good oldfashioned folks with staunch republican values explain why it’s actually a GOOD thing that the ghost from shitmas past barely pays any taxes. No yeah we WANT to be ruled by a crooked business man who acts like a 13 year old who just discovered racism on twitter, that’s what we want. Him and the two corinthians he rode in on. Sell your soul for pennies, it’s not like you’ll need it where you’re going.
28/9 2020
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Dream a little dream of Mia
28/9 2020
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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi daY everyone.
29/9 2020
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goatlog
29/9 2020
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Your face or mine?
29/9 2020
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Aw, look at Sky tucked in the corner.
29/9 2020
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It’s weird what sticks in your head. Like, I remember the first English lesson I ever had, our English teacher told us a joke that went something like… what did the salad say to the tomato? Lettuce get married. Or, lettuce be friends. Some variation of that. All I know is, whenever I hear or see the word lettuce I think of Bent, our English teacher and being a kid in school.
30/9 2020
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Another thing that for no good reason just popped into my head: Taking the ferry to go see the grandparents. My grandparents lived on Zealand, we live on Jutland. So we’d have to take the ferry. Because when I was a kid there weren’t bridges. I don’t even know if the ferries still go between Jutland and Zealand? I guess not.
I think it was about 4 hours, something like that. It was kind of an adventure, four hors on a boat. Looking out the windows on the vast and endless sea. I was always a little scared of the ocean. Looking out on the waves, wondering there were whales beneath. Or schools of fish, like in the nature shows on tv. The ocean is like outer space, another world.
And the arcade machines. That was one of my favourite things. Getting change from my parents and feeding it to the arcades. They were pretty simple games, probably Space Invaders and Galaxians and Galaxian and Galaga and stuff like that. But the feel of the analogue stick and those arcadey sounds, with strangers walking back and forth around you.
And the gift shop. We’d always buy this box of candy, it was made of cardboard but it was made to look like a wooden box and it had different kinds of candy in it. Always a favourite.
Sometimes there would be a ball pit that you could play in. Somehow we didn’t die of a pandemic in there.
I can still picture the road my grandparents lived on in my head. Not in exact detail you know, but in feeling. The car going round the corner and down the driveway.
Grandma’s Kongen Af Danmark bonbons. Their vegetable garden.
Yeah. Time. You know?
30/9 2020
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*disgruntled grunt*
link: camera fall video
30/9 2020
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Will 2020 shut up, man.
30/9 2020
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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.
30/9 2020
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“stand back and stand by” is a completely normal response when asked to condemn white supremacists. Totally. If Obama on national television when asked to condemn Muslim jihadists had told them to stand by, all the good oldfashioned staunch republicans would have been a-okay with it. And if Mexican immigrants used loopholes to not pay taxes, all the religious moral highgrounded Republicans would have praised them for being smart and ressourceful. The suburban moms would have been more than happy to welcome coloured people into their neighbourhoods if they used ficitonal losses to bring down the rent, or whatever I’m not a lawyer.
Jesus christ America should be ashamed and embarrassed. What a shitshow. But hey, i’m sure the rich old white men will take you in the right direction. Everything’s fine. Once the madeup pandemic has killed off the riffraff you’ll be able to afford free haircare for all your realityshow betters.
30/9 2020
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Think goat thoughts. And get me some elderberry soup.
30/9 2020
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On a brighter note, I got a new supply of elderberry soup and flourballs today. My dad and Hans were nice enough to drop by with a new stock. So now I got my little freezer full again. Should last me a couple of weeks.
I am very thankful that Hans is willing to help us with driving my dad around. And that my dad is always eager to help. Unfortunately he’s still not doing so good. Last we talked he was doing a little better, but it seems to be pretty bad again. He had an appointment at the hospital in a months time, but they got it moved up to next week instead. So hopefully there will be some progress then.
I sure do appreciate the elderberries. Did you know in Danish they’re called hyldebær. Which could be translated as shelfberries or praiseberries. Praised be the berries, for they are good.
30/9 2020
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But to be honest, it was kind of unfair that Biden got to wear a wire so he could have his staff sitting outside feeding him advice like “don’t endorse white supremacy”.
Also, if Biden had been forced to take that drug test I’m sure it would have showed that he’d taken some of those experimental drugs that keeps you from expressing support for white supremacy groups.
30/9 2020
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Goat distractions
30/9 2020
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Tik tok. You think you have so much time. But you’re just a grain of sand on a beach. The only thing that is certain is that the tide is coming.
30/9 2020
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Keep your frinds close and your goats closer
30/9 2020
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Preben from 2012.
1/10 2020
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Good goat times today. A quiet day, mostly grey and chilly. Had a nice sit with Mia on the bench, again she was getting sleepy and resting her head on me. I love that. It’s nicer wren you’re sitting in the sun, but I’ll take it any way. Calm and quiet.
1/10 2020
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Sweetness with Mia on the bench. You can tell it’s getting colder because I had to put my jacket back on.
1/10 2020
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It feels like a 2 servings of elderberry soup kinda day today, yes it does, yes it does, yes it does.
1/10 2020
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You will never understand
How it feels to live your life
With no meaning or control
And with nowhere left to go
1/10 2020
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It’s the Milo and Sky show
1/10 2020
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Esther the wonder pig replied to one of my comments and referenced my ‘uncle’ nickname. Makes me happy that someone over there knows me, just a little. I love Esther and her dads and their whole operation. I wish I could do what they do. A fraction of what they do. Hopefully Mia’s page spreads some happiness and inspires kindness to animals, just a little..
There’s so much bad in the world, sometimes it’s easy to forget there’s good as well.
I’m sure you all know Esther, if you don’t then you definitely definitely should look up her page.
1/10 2020
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Off to bed now. Thanks everyone for the replies toe the Esther post, that was really lovely. Nice to hear such positive comments and stories of how you found the goats and I! I am thankful for all the good people I’ve gotten to know. You can say a lot of bad things about the internet and facebook, but I don’t know where I’d be without it. Love you guise!
Say hi, Nuller. Hi, Nuller.
1/10 2020
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Ping, or Pong, from 2016.
2/10 2020
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Jesus fucking christ. Trump got corona? You can’t make this shit up. The leader or the most powerful country in the world. What more evidence do you need that they haven’t been taking this seriously enough?
If I were a conspiracy theorist I’d claim that it’s all a hoax. Donny will pretend to have the rona for a couple of weeks then come back and say “look I had it and I’m fine, this thing is no big deal, just like I said”. But nah, it makes so much more sense that him and his administration are just incredibly dumb, irresponsible and negligent.
And before anyone says anything about all sides should come together and wish him well and this is no time for bipartishanship and blabla, fuck that. Fuck that hard. This guy had played a big role in letting the virus ruin America. This guy has stood on stage and promised it would be nothing. This guy has stood on stage and mocked his opponent for wearing a mask. This guy does not deserve sympathy. If you can think protesters deserve to be shot because they stay out after curfew then I can think this guy deserves getting sick for ignoring and enabling the disease. I wouild of course never (publically) wish harm on anyone. But I’m not an opposing presidential candidate, I don’t have to publically send well wishes.
I really do wonder what Trump would have done if it had been reversed. If Biden got it. You have to assume, even Trump couldn’t not have wished him well. Surely his people would have withheld his McDonalds burgers until he tweeted “get well Joe”. Of course once he got his burgers he would have gone back to send a tweetstorm about old Joe’s poor health and so on.
God, what a shitshow. 2020 has shit like the new Batman movie has villains. The Joker! The Riddler! Catwoman! The Penguin! Weird clowns! So much evil. Also in the Batman movie.
But thoughts and prayers for Melania. I hope you beat this thing. And by that I refer to your loveless sham of a marriage. I guess we don’t have to worry about their kids, no way their parents have had any physical contact with them. Finally Eric has an upside to never being hugged.
So anyway. I woke up with a big headache and feeling a bit nauseated. Ah well, I’m sure karma’s not going to get me.
2/10 2020
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goatlog
2/10 2020
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Mortality is a terrifying thing. Not in yourself, but in those you love.
2/10 2020
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Man, I love John Lithgow. I’m not gay, but if he asked me to marry him.. I’d have to seriously consider it.
2/10 2020
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Clark from 2014.
3/10 2020
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Oh Nuller. Little boy is growing up.
3/10 2020
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Lucky guy, hanging out with Mia and Lily.
3/10 2020
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I don’t know if Trump knew his diagnosis beforehand. But it sure looks like he didn’t wear a condom when he fucked everyone over.
3/10 2020
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Her majesty requires hoofrubs.
3/10 2020
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.
By the way, if you’re a newer friend and you’re wondering about these posts.. I like to start every day with an affirmation, and a picture of a past goat friend. Palle here is posted on Sundays because Sunday is Funday and Palle was the funniest goat ever. Our sweet old grandma Mio gets posted on Mio Monday. And Tuesday is Yogi daY because it’s TongueOutTuesday and Yogi had the funniest flapping tongue. Kamel gets posted on Wednesday because that’s hump day and camels have humps, and so did Kamel. And the rest of the days I pick random old photos from my archive to remember sweet old goat friends from the past.
So that’s what that’s all about.
4/10 2020
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“I believe in hope”
– Ted Lasso, 2020
4/10 2020
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goatlog
4/10 2020
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Immerse yourself in goats
4/10 2020
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Milo and Sky. Sky of course tucked insafely behind a goat shield. Making a funny face there.
4/10 2020
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That’s all for now.