Rat Race
Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone
31/5 2021
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Good goat times today. A goorgeous, sunny day. Over 20C/68F. Which is high summer for Denmark. So good. I’m glad I had a drinking horn on my viking helmet, I’m not sure i would have made it without drinks. I didn’t get any breakfast today and maybe that was why I started feeling kinda dizzy in the heat on my way home. I made it, don’t worry!
Sweet kids visiting at the fence too, asking questions and petting the goats. One boy asked if he could give a pasta to the goats. Then he got a little scared and sort of left it on the fence and pointed at it for Mia. His mom helped him get it done properly, and Mia enjoyed the treat. I can understand how Mia can seem intimidating when you’re a little kid. “The giant one” as she’s referred to occasionally. As Sky is ‘the baby’. And Milo is ‘the bandit’.
Other than that, too hot to do much but sit around. Mia gets so tired in the sun. Panting. I still think of her as my baby, but you know she’s getting to be an old goat. She’ll be turning 9 in a couple of months. She definitely takes more breaks these days. Especially when it’s sunny. We’ve been through a lot, I think we deserve a summer of just sitting around in the sun. Let the kids do all the running around.
Well, as soon as I bring out treats or go to my backpack, Mia still comes running like a kid. Not too old to get excited for food. I hear ya, Mia. I get excited when the pizza guy rings my doorbell too.
31/5 2021
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Went on a couple of bucket runs to make sure the goats had fresh water in the heat. I’m glad the outdoor faucet is working again.
31/5 2021
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Had a doctor’s appointment this morning as well. To go over the results from my last tests. Generally things are decent. My blood sugar is a little up. Not alarmingly, but something to work on. It’s not surprising, I’ve put on weight too, the depression hasn’t been good on my eating habits. But I’ll work on it.
There was a cute kid at the doctor’s office. Like a little goat, running around being super curious about everything. Her mother was chasing her around going “no you can’t go in there. No you can’t touch that. No you can’t go in there. Hey look at this picture. No you can’t press that”. Haha. Seemed like a handful, but the mother, and everyone else, took it with a smile.
31/5 2021
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Well, my new double platform was not allowed to remain. I suppose it’s ok, they took the pavement tiles and laid out a little path. You can see it in the picture. The pallet was the foundation for the new second platform. Now instead there’s a little walkway next to Nuller’s rock. That place is one of the worst when it’s muddy, so this will be really good in fall and winter. The mud there was so bad. The timing is just a little wonky, since were going into the summer season and the mud won’t be a big problem for a while. But alright. I’ll miss the double platform. But the pallet is still there so there’s still something to stand and sit on. It’s not too bad.
Funnily enough Mia spent a lot of time sitting on the first platform today. I don’t think she’s sat there ever since we came back from the horse field. But maybe she likes it better with a pallet next to it. Or maybe it’s just because it’s cleaner now with the mud gone. She can sit on the platform and I can sit on the pallet. Pretty good.
31/5 2021
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Mia making the most of the remaining platform. And the pallet still has use.
31/5 2021
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El Bandito
31/5 2021
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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi daY everyone.
1/6 2021
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goatlog
1/6 2021
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I tell you hwat, I still love me some Radiohead. I don’t know if kids today still think they’re cool. But you put on a Radiohead concert from literally any era and I’ll happily listen to it all.
Humanity has a lot of flaws, but you gotta low the art it makes. Music, books, movies, paintings. The ability to extend ourselves beyond our mortal limits, is pretty neat.
And weird fishes.
1/6 2021
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Ahh! Nuller!
1/6 2021
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You know, there’s more to me than just goats. I can take selfies without goats. I’m not some one-note stereotypical goat-obsessed crazy person. Wait, do you smell peanuts?
2/6 2021
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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.
2/6 2021
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Good goat times today. A little bit of slight rain on my walk there, but thankfully it passed and we got mostly sunshine afater that. I arrived to a big drama at the playground. I found kitty Heino sitting outside the goat pen. I thought he was relaxing and I could get some cuddles in. But he was not relaxing. He was on the prowl. He was hunting a mouse. He was suuper focused. I saw the little mouse a couple of times, I think it was trying to hide under things where Heno couldn’t get to. But Heino was persistant. He squeezed himself under stuff and scaled an enclosure and would not give up. He got to the mouse a couple of time too. I heard the little squeaks. I’m not sure if he was toying with it or if he just didn’t get properly hold of it. But the hunt continued. I am not sure if he ended up getting it or not. I must admit I felt a little bad for the mouse. Those little squeaks… but I guess it’s nature’s way and all that. That’s what the barn cats are there for.
A little later on I had Sky out of the pen to do some filming and Heino came back. But Sky chased him off. there’s always a bigger fish! Even though Sky is the baby of the goats, she’s still bigger than Heino and with horns. A wise retreat by the mouse hunter.
After all that drama I spent the rest of the time mostly just sitting in the sun with the goaties. That’s more my jam.
2/6 2021
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Here’s a snapshot from the big drama. Heino hunting the mouse. At least, I think it’s a mouse. I know we’ve had a rat problem at the playground. Would cats go after rats too? I don’t know if any of you can tell from the picture, it went way too fast to get a good shot.
2/6 2021
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New change at the playground. That barrier in front of the shelter. I wish it wasn’t so tall, it’s even taller than the one in front of the goat house! But I guess it’s ok. It will help keep the bedding in there and make it all less messy. And the goats have no problems getting in. Here’s Nuller scaling it to get in with his mama Lily. In fact, the goats spent more time in there than I can remember them ever doing on a sunny day. Maybe they like that barrier, it’s always good to have walls and corner and stuff for security. They all had turns sitting in there in the shade today.
2/6 2021
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Here are the newbs sitting in the shelter, behind the new barrier. You can see there’s considerably more space between Nuller’s rock and the shelter. I’m not sure I’m a fan.. but eh, as long as the goats like sitting in there, I guess it’s good.
2/6 2021
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Still a good place to sit.
2/6 2021
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Thor and a couple of butts from 2008.
3/6 2021
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Hand in hoof
3/6 2021
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Got a problem on my facebox. When i look at my feed I only the first post, then it stalls. I think it’s loading in a ‘would you like to sponsor this post’ thing from Mia’s page. But it doesn’t load anything after that. So I can barely read posts. Sorry if i’m missing anything important. Not that I don’t always do that anyway.
In other news, that was a good pizza.
3/6 2021
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I love when she sits with her legs splayed out like that.
4/6 2021
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Magnethe from 2005.
4/6 2021
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“I heard you hve a bandit problem, and for a low low price of all your pasta I can offer my services as a bodyguardgoat”
It’s a nice racket Mia and Milo’s got going on.
4/6 2021
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Preben from 2012.
5/6 2021
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goatlog
5/6 2021
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“A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall”
The new Bo Burnham special is pretty epic, if you’re into that sort of thing.
5/6 2021
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Aw, Craiggy’s first show. So now i got about 500 shows to watch.
5/6 2021
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Uh oh, Milo has spotted the camera.
5/6 2021
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.
6/6 2021
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Is thinking you’re a hypochondriac a sign of hypochondria? Asking for a friend..
6/6 2021
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The boys sitting togher. You don’t see that too often. Usually Milo sits with Sky and Nuller with his mama Lily.
Good vantage point for Nuller to keep an eye on his rock there, though.
6/6 2021
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Sky’s favourite place to sit seems to be the unstable platform, which has been stable since wrestled the second rock over to it. There’s even room for me, although i do have to hang out.
6/6 2021
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That’s all for now.