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Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone.
18/7 2022
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Good goat times today. It was a grey morning with a bit of rain. Which surprised me because the forecast had looked quite summery. But turns out the summery part only came in later in the day. It didn’t get really hot until I was walking home, typically! Haha. But it was pleasantly warm all day and the rain didn’t last too long. So it was nice enough. I enjoy the clippity clops of goat hooves on the wooden floor in the goat house. Especially when they suddenly speed up because someone has to the duck out of fodge. This is usually the newbies running when Mia arrives or Milo or Sky running when Sassy arrives. Suddenly the hoofsteps speed up, possibly followed by someone banging into a wall and then a blur of goat running past me to get out. It’s a dangerous life in the goat pen.
We had some nice visitors at the fence too. A fun little boy who seemed like a handful. He was quite loud and his mom had to keep running after him and trying to contain him. They had left his bike at the playground, but the boy didn’t want to take the 1 minute walk back where they’d come from. He wanted to go the whole way around the goat pen and the horse field and all that. Maybe a 10-15 minute walk, probably more with a little rascal like that. Haha. He got quite upset but eventually heis mom managed to drag him back the short way. He also got a poop show from one of the goats. He wasn’t really grossed out or excited by it though, just said “that one is pooping”. And his mom said “yes, all animals do”. And that was that.
But speaking of poop, another encounter at the fence was a guy from the community gardens across the path. I am pretty sure I’ve mentioned him before. His Danish is very bad. But he came and was trying to find out when the playground staff would be around. I told him I didn’t really know, I was just a goat helper. He picked up on the word for goat. And then he asked ‘what’s that called’ just as Sky was approaching. I thought he meant her but he went no no and was pointing at the ground. Then he leaned down and picked up a goat berry. Haha. He’s been asking before if he could have goat poop for his garden. Well, now I was a in a bit of a dilemma. What do I tell him that goat poop is called? I figured telling him they’re called goat beries might not be helpful haha. I ended up just tell him basically that they’re called ‘lort’ which is Dansih for shit. Slightly vulgar, but he didn’t really catch it when I tried more polite bæ and afføring. Hahah. Well, I don’t know if he’ll get any goat shit. Since they just poop all over the place it’s kind of hard to get any decent amount in one place. But good luck to him,.
When did my life become so poop centric?! Haha. I’m not pointing any fingers but…
18/7 2022
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Uh oh, we got another jailbreak. Milo may be The Bandit, but watch out for The Baby was well. Sky took a hike. Funny thing, I wanted to film her for a minute while she was out the pen. Then when I was going to go fetch her back in, she came up to the fence.. and managed to squeeze through and get back in the pen on her own! Haha. It’s like she has her little personal cat door. She comes and goes as she pleases. Well, I did my best to fix up the fence where she squeezed throught (it wasn’t the part that they put new fencing around) so hopefully she won’t be able to keep doing it. Sheesh. Next she’ll be digging a tunnel..
18/7 2022
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Nuller..
18/7 2022
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NU LLER
18/7 2022
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“Hey, for some reason my escape hole in the fence doesn’t work anymore, can you open the gate for me real quick?”
Nice try, Sky.
18/7 2022
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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi daY everyone.
19/7 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.
20/7 2022
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Good goat times today. Phew, it’s a scorcher! And i’m not just saying that. Turning on the news in the morning before headnig out they were talking about how we might set a new record for recorded temperature in Denmark today. Not sure if we’ll break it, but it’s a hot one. The forecast for my neighbourhood said upwards of 34C/93F. And that alone is extremely hot and rare for Denmark. A little cooler in the morning of course, and thankfully there was a good breeze and a bit of cloud coverage, which made it more bearable. But as the day wore on you could really feel that heat. Panting goats. Lots of relaxing. Sweet visitors getting greens for the goats at the fence. And treats of course, treats and cuddles.
And I made sure to eat and drink before heading out, so I didn’t feel like blacking out today. But the walk home was still quite draining. I love a beautiful summer day like this though. And now a cold bowl of koldskål for dinner. And probably some iced creams for dessert.
20/7 2022
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Mia getting treated by the visitors.
20/7 2022
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Well, it’s official. We got a new Danish heat record for July. I don’t think we’ve beaten the alltime record yet, but it could still happen today. It’s a hot one for sure.
I went shopping after the goat trip today and when I left the aiconditioned mall it felt like walking straight out into a carpet of heat.
Thoughts and sympathy for our friends in the southern parts of Europe, and Britain, who are having it even worse right now. At least in Denmark it’s just one day of max heatroom and then it’s back to just normal hotness, and in a few days we’ll be back down around 20/68.
20/7 2022
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In the sun, with the goats.
20/7 2022
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Cuddles with Lily and Nuller.
20/7 2022
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Here’s that Sky escape I talked about on Monday.
21/7 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Herman from 2014.
21/7 2022
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One.. two.. three.. four.. five.. six. Six goats in the shot!
21/7 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Bob from 2012.
22/7 2022
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Mia is wise to the fact that I often put foodstuff on the roof of the shelter when I’m getting ready to hand it out to them. So now it’s routine that she has to check to see if there’s anything good there. No luck this time, though!
22/7 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Caturday everyone.
23/7 2022
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I’m quite popular with the ladies. Well, with Lily and Sassy anyway.
23/7 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.
24/7 2022
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goatlog
24/7 2022
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Be the goat
24/7 2022
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That’s all for now.