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Happy Mio Monday everyone. I hope it will be a good one.
19/9 2022
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Urk. I was getting ready to leave to go see the goats. And then my tummy exploded, more or less. Feeling okay other than that, but don’t feel like going out right now. I think the goats will have to wait. Might have been something I ate. Hopefully I’m not getting sick again. Send Nurse Bell to my room, please.
19/9 2022
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HappY Yogi daY everyone. Let’s try this again!
20/9 2022
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Good goat times today. A beautiful, sunny day. I could have thought it was still summer if it wasn’t for the cold morning. It was lovely in the sunshine though. Eventually upwards of 15C/59F. And that’s about the maximum we’ll be getting now. It will get even colder soon. But still, as long as the sun shines it’s still lovely.
And in the goat pen, it looks like the stuff Jesper has been working on is done. Construction complete. A couple of platforms with some shelter. There’s a ramp leading up to the platform but… it’s too steep. Well, Sky managed to jump up and climb the ramp and got up on top of the platform! Aw, she’s a little mountain goat. But there’s no way Mia is going to be able to get up top. Too much junk in that goat trunk. Hmm.
Well, Jeanette had noticed the steepness too and we talked a bit about it. It hadn’t been her idea to make them so steep. We discussed if maybe making the ramps less steep would be possible, but I’m not sure if they can actually be moved and changed. I said, maybe put another less steep one on the other side. To which she replied “oh you’re so smart!”. Haha, yes yes. I’m a good boy *wags tail*!”. Haha. Well we’ll see. If their intention is to have the goats jump up top on the platform they’ll need to do something, change the ramps or add others. We’ll see if that happens. They’re still nice additions to the goat pen. The goats love scratching their bodies against the woodwork. And it’s a nice place to sit under on a sunny day. I’m not sure exactly how much shelter they would give on a rainy day. I think the goats may still prefer to sit in the goat house if it rains, but we’ll see about that too. I told Jeanette that it would be nice to add some pavement tiles underneath, because the goats love sitting on those and it’s good for their hooves to walk on. So she made a mental note of that and said she’d inquire. Talking about pavement tiles reminded me of the old pen and the things we were supposed to get from there. I asked about that, but Jeanette hadn’t heard anything about it. I told her that both Malene and Lars had said we could bring the bench. I told her how it had moved with us from Bispehaven where Mia was born to Kappelvænget and she agreed it would be neat to have it follow us to Gellerup too. I’d also like to maybe grab some pavement tiles there, at least the ones that aren’t fixed solidly in the ground by now. And that big black trough that they like to jump up on. I figure that could go beneath the tree and help them reach higher leaves. Well, I think Jeanette and I may go to the old place next week to collect some of that. She said she wasn’t good at backing the car up with the trailer, but we could drive there with the trailer and unhook it and move it by hand and get the stuff onboard and bring it to the new place. Hooves crossed we can do that together next week. that would be nice.
That black trough or tub, I like that too because it’s easy to move around and place my camera on. Speaking of, today I brought my old tripod for the first time since the move. It’s a cheap rickety one. But by now MMS are settled in so well that I figured I could begin to do a little filming of us just sitting around, especially on such a nice sunny day. And that was nice. But of course that also meant the continuation of that classic old saga. Milo vs camera. Had to run some interference a few times to get him away from the camera when I had it set up. At one point I had been filming for a few minutes of me sitting with Mia after I’d gotten him away from the camera. Well, when I went to turn off the camera I discovered he had actually managed to swivel the camera so all the film was just bushes and greens. Sheesh. Why is he scared of evertything BUT the camera?! Oh boy.
It was a nice day though. Some kids visiting the fence. Jeanette told me that she’d had kids in the pen again while I wasn’ there and that it had gone well. But she’s mindful that it helps giving Milo a lot of cuddles to distract him a bit, giving him attention helps everyone get along. And I had other nice talks with Jeanette, she remarked that I hadn’t been there Monday and I told her I had been about to leave home when I felt bad. And we talked about my eyesight issues too and how I was coping with that all and things like that. She asked if there were any operations I could get to help me. Nope. I can only hope for things not to get worse too soon. But again, she is so nice to talk to and she’s really mindful of the goats and their needs and mine too.
I asked her if they had given up the plans to mend the fence to stop Mia jumping over. She said that from what she’d heard it wasn’t deemed necessary anymore. Well yeah, that’s because I’ve been dragging in Mia and locking her up everytime I leave… it’s a little stressful on me, and the goats too I think. Well, we decided that she should be there in the pen when I left today to see if she could keep them calm and see how that would go. I haven’t actually tried leaving without locking Mia in since the first week. One could hope now that they’ve settled in so well she wouldn’t feel the need to escape and follow me.
Well, we tried. I am not sure how well it went. I could hear all the goats hollering like mad as I left, and I could hear Jeanette try to calm and preoccupy them. I figured I’d better just walk away as quick as possible and not turn back, because that would only make things worse. So, I don’t actually know if she managed to stop Mia from jumping over the fence. I am pretty sure if Jeanette wasn’t there Mia still would jump over though. So, I still hope they’ll want to try to fix the fence up. I guess we’ll see. There is still room for improvement. But I still get the feeling they are really happy to have the goats and willing to work on improving the things that need it. I am very happy that things turned out like this for MMS, not least because of Jeanette and how well we are clicking. Just need resolution for SNL too, I’m getting worried about that. But we’l see, we’ll see, we’ll see.
20/9 2022
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Look at Sky! She definitely are the champions! As I said in my goat day post, she really surprised me by getting up there. The ramp is way too steep for Mia, and even for Milo and Sky it’s tricky. There’s the same kind of steep ramp on the other platform and Sky tried getting up there too but only made it about halfway. We’ll see if they’re going to make it less steep or add another ramp or whatever. Otherwise the goats will be spending considerably more time BENEATH it than on top of it. But it’s still a nice place to sit and a good place to scratch your bum on. The goats, not me.
20/9 2022
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Sky, very proud of herself. And rightly so.
20/9 2022
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Sky is on lookout duty.
It IS a bit high. Maybe it would be possible to lower the platform somewhat and make the ramp less steep. Well we’ll see I guess.
20/9 2022
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Well if you can’t get on top, at least you can go below.
20/9 2022
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Oh boy, good news for me! I just got my yearly status for the utilities bill. As I mentioned recently I was very worried about this. I pay an estimated amount each month and then once a year it’s added up to see if I paid too much too little. And I was so worried that I would get a big bill because of the rise in heating and energy costs because of .. you know. The world. But I’m getting money back. Not quite as much as the previous two years. But still a fair little amount. And most importantly, not a big bill. What a load off my mind. I still have to be careful, it only covers up to the end of June. So the increased energy costs the last two months aren’t factored into this. Next year might be considerably worse. But hey, that’s a problem for Future Lasse. Present Lasse is just happy that he can still afford pizza. Thank goodness. Won’t have to cut the goat treat budget either. Phew.
Now I gotta go wipe off the cold sweat that sprung as I opened the email to check the budget.
20/9 2022
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This is a very important video and I’m going to need you to watch every second of it. There will be a quiz afterwards.
21/9 2022
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Happy Hump Day everyone. I hope it will be a good one.
21/9 2022
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Good goat timest today. Double duty, new place first then the old. All in a day’s work.
No Jeanette today. She only works 3 days a week. I have kind of been patterning my own visits after when she’s there because I just like being around her too. as well as the goats. Today it was Maja on duty, and she’s very nice too. But I think she’s a little more introverted than Jeanette, and two introverts don’t make for as much chatting. She’s very sweet and nice, but we don’t talk as much. I think she’s also not quite as comfortable with the goats. The couple of times I have been there on her days, teh goats haven’t been out yet when I got there. And she’s generally not around as much as Jeanette is on her days. And I heard her tell Malene as much, that she wasn’t as comfortable with the goats and that a guy, I think called Isaac?, had been letting them out. Apparently he’s ‘the goat whisperer’. Pfft, whatever. I’ll let them think that. We all know who the real goat whisperer is.
Haha. Oh yeah, Malene was there. Nice to see her again. The first thing she said as she came to the fence, after greeting me, was ‘oh those ramps are way too steep’. Oh yeah. Well it’s good they realise it. Hopefully it can get fixed. Jeanette told me the other day that Jesper the handyman was busy at another place he works, so it might take a while. But hopefully it will get fixed. Although Sky showed again today that she can conquer the left platform. It’s less steep than the right one. and she can make it up there with some effort. I suppose Milo could too then, but he doesn’t seem interested in trying. More scaredy cat then muntain goat, that boy.
Well, it was a nice time and another sunny day.
Then off to check on the newbs. They were in good spirits, thankfully. Since I no longer have the key to the gate, I approached the fence next to the goat house instead of where I usually arrive at the far end of the pen. They couldn’t see me from inside the goat house were they were resting, but after a bit of bleating back and forth they came out. And I climbed over the fence. And it just so happened that just then a daycare lady with some kids came by the fence, over by the gate. So I walked over there and got the goats to follow. They hadn’t wanted to get out of the goat house before I arrived, so the visitors were lucky. And the kids got to pet the goats. And I talked a bit to the lady. She asked if there didn’t use to be more goats and hadn’t there been horses once? So I told her all about what was going on. And she asked “whose decision was THAT?” in a slightly disapproving voice. Not mine, lady. That’s for sure. Some of the younger people using the playground and club will be happy to have the horses back, but there will definitely be people missing the goats. All the people passing through especially. I told the lady where the 3 other goats had moved to and she thanked me a lot for that and said she’d try and come by there, so maybe we’d meet again. She was very nice.
And then, a lot of cuddling with Sassy, Lily and Nuller. All in a cuddly mood today. It was so sweet, but it also made me so sad. I try not to think of it, but it’s just so unfair. I miss them. I miss having all 6 together. I miss all the cuddles and group dynamics. I miss the way things used to be. And as I’ve said before, I feel so guilty. I know it’s not my choice, but I can’t help feeling it’s something I’M doing to THEM.
I have been feeling really depressed around last weekend and the beginning of this week. I think it was the ‘the deadline is approaching fast’ thing that Lars told me. Got me extra down. I didn’t talk to him today, but he’s got my number now so I assume I’ll hear from him when there are news. It just sucks. Sometimes life blindsides you. A couple of months ago I had no idea how everything was about to change. I’m trying to focus on being happy for MMS and how good they have it now. But it’s just hard not being sad too.
Well, there was a lot of good goating today, so I try to focus on that. One day a day.
21/9 2022
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The newbs entertaining at the fence.
21/9 2022
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The newbs were in good spirits and seemed to do well. There was however a lot of noise in the stables building next to them. At one point a loud saw thing went off and Sassy quickly retreated to underneath the goat house. It’s sort of funny that this is the spot Sky would beeline to when she wanted to be safe from especially Sassy. But when things get real dicey they all seek refuge there.
21/9 2022
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Once again Sky is on top of the world, and the little people can only look up with envy.
21/9 2022
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Hanging out with the newbs. It’s a quite unflattering photo for my personage, but i wanted one with me and the gang.
I also was going to link the video I just posted on Mia’s page from the visit today, but for some reason no posts on the page are loading so.. if you want to watch the newbs you’ll have to go check yourself I guess.
21/9 2022
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I hope today will be a good day. Here’s Bob from 2012.
22/9 2022
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Good goat times today. Fair bit of sun, nice and comfortable fall day.
It was a Jeanette day today, so I asked her how it had gone on Tuesday, when we did our little experiment of her staying in the goat pen when I left to try and see if that would help the goats cope.
She said it had actually been pretty unpleasant. Mia had kept trying to jump the fence, so she had had to keep getting in the way, and they’d all been screaming after me. So, it does not seem like Mia is going to have less seperation anxiety even though they have settled in well by now. So I’ll have to keep locking them up when I leave. Hopefully the idea of mending the fences is back on. When I left yesterday I locked them up and told Malene to let them out when I was gone. She seemed surprised to learn that Mia would still jump the fence. Hopefully now they are aware again and we can get the fences heightened, along with the ramps to the platforms un-steeped. It’s a stress on me and the goats when I have to lock them up. They are not dumb. They know exactly what’s up when I try to lure them inside. The only time they won’t come running for a treat is when they know i’m trying to get them to go somewhere they don’t want to be. Sigh.
But it was a nice day other than that. Jeanette had brought some trimmings from her own place and the goats enjoyed the nice leaves and branches. And we had some visitors, a couple of kids came into the pen to meet the goats. Very sweet. And then a guy recognised me. “Oh, the camera man is back!”. He remembered me from Bispehaven. The old old place. Apparently he had seen me a lot back then. I’m nto sure if we ever spoke or met really, I can’t recognise faces anymore and my memory is bad. But I had left an impression on him I guess. And we talked a bit about the goats and the playgrounds. Very nice.
22/9 2022
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Hello goat!
A little visitor saying hi.
22/9 2022
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Sigh. In less good news… I have started coughing and my nose is running.
I’m feeling completely fine actually. But I have been coughing enough that I can’t write it off as just random. Yesterday when I rode the bus to see the news, a lady was coughing right next to me. I BET IT WAS HER. Ugh. Well I guess we’ll see how it goes. I just got better from the thing a week or two ago with my throat.
Maybe this won’t get worse. Maybe it’ll be fine. i definitely won’t be spending the weekend coughing and snotting and feeling miserable, that’s for sure!
Sigh. Send soup.
22/9 2022
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The three, digging into the trimmings that Jeanette brought from home. She told me she had googled some stuff before bringing it to see if it was okay for the goats to have it. i appreciate she cares about the goats.
22/9 2022
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Well I suppose I should share some better news. My brother had a checkup at the hospital and apparently all the tests were good, all the values were great, blood pressure, kidneys all that. So that’s super. He might be the healthiest of us now, despite the transplant and all. But we’re dragging ourselves along, as best we can.
22/9 2022
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I hope today will be a good day. Here is Popcorn from 2015.
23/9 2022
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goatlog
23/9 2022
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how am I doing? Better, I think. Coughing a little. But my nose isn’t running. I feel like I’m a little better than yesterday, and I was fine other than the coughing and slightly runny nose yesterday. So that’s good. I had kinda thought I’d wake up and have a real cold today. But maybe I’ll be fine, just fine.
Famous last slices of pizza
23/9 2022
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I’m going to miss that blue sky, we’ll be seeing it less and less now.
23/9 2022
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Happy Caturday everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
24/9 2022
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The bleating of my heart
24/9 2022
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Happy Funday everyone. I hope it will be a good one.
25/9 2022
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goatlog
25/9 2022
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Sure am happy they didn’t split these two apart.
25/9 2022
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25/9 2022
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Sky is master of her domain.
25/9 2022
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That’s all for now.