Birthday Soup
Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone.
14/3 2022
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Good goat times today. A Beautiful day, cold but with a lot of sunshine.
Got a bit of a scare today, though. Lily was all worked up again, in heat I guess. She was huffing and snorting and bugging Mia. Mia whinnyid her displeasure and started pushing her away. They were butting heads and then Mia rammed Lily and got her head under her and lifted her up with her horns on her belly or something like that. Lily let out a big wail, one of those sounds where you can immediately tell that it’s no longer fun and games, this is hurting. That got me out of my seat pretty quick. Thankfully Lily was ok, I guess she mostly just got scared. I guess it’s a good thing that Mia’s horns curl around her head like they do. If she had had sharp horns sticking straight up she could have done some real damage.
But Lily was ok and a minute later she was back to huffing and puffing and following Mia around. Sheesh. Well I’m just glad she was ok. For a flash I thought she’d get her belly ripped open or something.
Much nicer later on when everyone was lazing in the sunshine.
There was another mishap, but no one got hurt. No person anyway.. I’ll show that in a picture a little later.
14/3 2022
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Here’s the other mishap from today.
That was a nice pair of pants I used to have.
Well ok no they weren’t really. I’m sure you’ve noticed but been too polite to point out that they old and dirty and falling apart. And now moreso. But I love them, they’re my goating pants. Perfect many pockets, warm enough for winter not way too hot for summer.
Surprisingly it wasn’t Nuller who wrecked them. But Lily. She had a busy day. Okay to be honest it wasn’t her fault. After her run-in with Mia i picked her up and sat with her in my lap to try and make sure she was ok. She was fine and relaxed in my lap for a while. When she got up she stepped on my pants. And got her hoof caught in a tear and ripped it wide open like this. Sigh.
Well, that’s what I get for walking around like a hobo in muddy pants that are falling apart. Let’s see if my parents can do another sewing round to try to keep them somewhat together.
Or maybe I need to go see if I can find a new pair to buy. I just need to find the exact same kind. I hate change. I hate new things. It’s always a disaster when I go to replace soemthing and can’t find the exact same thing.
Like recently I somehow lost that rubber pad on the end of one of my earphone buds. And I couldn’t find any extras. So I thought ok these earphones were pretty cheap so I’ll go on amazon and just buy a new pair because I like them. But these earphones are no longer available! Aaargh. I bought another kind of earphones, and of course they weren’t as good. Because new things are never as good. Luckily I found some other old earphones lying around and was able to scavenge rubber pads from them, so I can still use my good earphones.
When my walkman broke recently I went to try and buy the same model off amazon. No longer available. Aaargh! Luckily I was able to come up with sort of fix that let’s me keep using the good walkman. This is how I operate. Anythnig to avoid getting new things.
I’m partly excused by my eyesight. I can’t just necessarily operate any walkman (and even though it’s called a sony walkman it’s reall an mp3 player, in case you were picture me walking around with cassette tapes). Change is much harder to deal with when you can’t see stuff. I’m fairly dependant on knowing how to do stuff, how to go places, how to operate things. New stuff can be really hard, or sometimes impossible, for me.
And it’s even worse for me because of my social phobia. I can’t just go into a store and try on different pants to find some that suit my needs. I can’t just ask for help. Crippling social anxiety and near-blindness isn’t a fun combination. I’d rather take a monetary loss than trying to deal with returning stuff. I’d rather miss out on stuff than having to get in a crowded bus. I’d rather buy 3 new mp3 players hoping one is accessible enough for my needs than asking for help. And so on.
Anyway, this wasn’t supposed to turn into a long rant! Sorry. The point is, Lily wrecked my pants but she’s ok and that’s what matters. And hopefully I can still get this brand of pants on the amazon.
14/3 2022
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So a funny thing happened today. A lady came by the goat pen. I believe she was of asian origin. Her Danish wasn’t the best, although not horrible. She was looking for goat poop.
Now, it didn’t occur to me before I got home. Asian lady. Looking for goat poop. Would it be racist of me to say I couldn’t help thinking of Keiko? You know I love you, Keiko!
Haha. I was kind of confused at first, I wasn’t sure what she was doing. She was asking me questions like if I was the one who cleaned the goat pen. Eventually I realised she was looking for goat berries to fertilize her garden or something like that. I think she had the impression that the goats all pooped in one place all the time or someone swept it all together or something. That’s not how it goes. They poop everywhere. And I do try to clean it up from platforms etc, but I just brush it into the grass. She came into the goat pen and went into the goat house. But in there they just poop in the straw. She quickly realised that it wasn’t really feasible to just come in with a bag and collect a big pile of goat poop and walk away with it. So she had to give up that idea.
I don’t even know if goat berries are good for fertilizing. But in any case better they fertilize our own lawn and continue the circule of poop grass poop.
14/3 2022
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Yes, it was a big day for little Lily. She earned a break. And don’t worry, she was totally fine. Just zonked out in the sun after a hard day of skirtchasing Mia around and ripping uncle’s ski.. I mean pants.
14/3 2022
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Well, I’m off to bed. Need my rest. Tomorrow’s a big day of course. No particular reason. Cough cough.
14/3 2022
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Thank you all so much for the birthday greetings! It warms the old piece of coal I got put in my chest to replace my heart.
Another year older and deeper in a debt of gratitude to you all <3!
I’ve been living clean the last few weeks, doing good, my blood sugar great. But today since it is as it were in fact my birthday, I decided it was time to visit my old love, the pizza. A birthday pizza for me.
To make up for it I started the day with 60 minutes of exercise on the bike. Along with my audiobook I also got my pumpking music mix for some intervals with higher resistance. It feels good, the physical exertion and the great music. I really enjoy that.
And now, I enjoy the pizza. I hope it’s not made at me for kind of abandoning me.
Thank you all again!
15/3 2022
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A birthday smooch from my best gal
15/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.
16/3 2022
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Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes yesterday. You make me feel like there are people who care that I’m here, and I appreciate that. You’re the best. I tried to reply to everyone. I’m sorry if I missed anyone, my fb notifications are still completely whacked. I get more notifications about Mia’s posts (the posts that I have made myself) than about comments and replies on my own profile. Completely useless. Fb is frustrating, but I’m glad I have this network. Love you loves!
16/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Herman from 2014.
17/3 2022
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Good goat times today. A cold, grey and windy day. Not much spring of it today. But it’s always good to be with the goats. Nothing too interesting happened today, a little boy at the fence asked “which one is the ild one?” refering I assume to the bandit Milo. Although Milo swears it’s slander and we’ll be hearing from his lawyers.
I wasn’t feeling super great today, my body aching and tired. I guess from the super hard partying I did on my birthday. Or rather I guess from the exercising. Leg cramps coming in regularly. May have to apply more pizza.
17/3 2022
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The wild one and.. the other one.
17/3 2022
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Had an interesting dream last night. I was on the bus going home from the goats.
But then I realised I hadn’t been to see the goats. And I was puzzled, why was I on the bus going home from the goats if I hadn’t seen the goats? And then it occured to me, oh it must be a dream. I must have fallen asleep while getting ready to go see the goats and now I was dreaming. So I said hi to the three gaots on the bus. Ymm, maybe that also should have been a clue that it was a dream. Haha. I think it may have been Sassy, Lily and Nuller. I’m not completely sure though. But it was three nigherian dwarfs. And they responded when I said hi to them. In English. I went on to talk to the bus driver. Don’t ask me why I didn’t stay to chat with the goats. If it had been real life and i’d met goats who spoke English you darn better believe I would have staid and chatted with them.
Anyway, I told the bus driver that this was a dream, and he didn’t care too much. But he did say that it was good that he didn’t have to worry about crashing the bus. And then we proceeded to flip around like it was a toy car going down the hill. The whole bus rolling around like an action movie, but everyone was fine. And now we were at the playground, the old playground. And some other stuff happened that I don’t really remember much of. I just remember that I wanted to wake up so I could actually go visit the goats.
Eventually I did wake up. It was still the middle of the night. I guess I hadn’t fallen asleep in the morning just before heading out to the goats. Oh well. I turned over and went back to bed. It was a long and dream filled night. In the morning I got up and went to see the goats. I asked Nuller if he had been there in my dream but he just said “Look man I’m just here for the treats I don’t know what to yell you”. Ok, he didn’t say that. He said MAAH MAAH but I got the point, and he got the treats.
And that’s the end of that story.
17/3 2022
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Found a new Pepsi Max flavour today. Pepsi Max Mango. It’s kind of odd, but I don’t hate it. And it’s nice to have alternatives. Pepsi Max Lime and Mango are at least something different, since I can’t have the sodas. And you know I’m a man on the go, or something.
17/3 2022
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Hey hey! Thank you so much for the lovely birthday card Deborah Ladd ! A lovely customized card with goat buddies, and cowzilla. And Beverly’s art. Beautiful! Thank you for thinking of me, and us!
17/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Tulle from 2005.
18/3 2022
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One, two, three, four, five, six goats and a human in the shot! That might be a first, I can’t remember. And I don’t know if it counts when Sassy’s only there by the butt.
But it’s lovely to be able to sit with them all like that. Hopefully spring will take hold soon and we can have more days like that.
18/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Popcorn from 2015.
19/3 2022
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Good soup times today. My birthday soup, since we couldn’t do it on Tuesday. Yum yum. Also the last soup of the season, since the weather is getting warmer. But I have soup for another 3 days leftover in the fridge, so I will enjoy that. Love that soup!
19/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.
20/3 2022
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Here’s another shot. Six goats , heads and butts.
20/3 2022
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That’s all for now.