Family Strains
Happy Mio Monday everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
10/10 2022
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Good goat times today. No news about snl, though. I talked to Jeanette, and her neighbours hadn’t responded to her text yet, which she said was a little unusual, but she didn’t want to be pushy about it. So I think we’ll have to wait a few days more for confirmation. But we are assuming that Sassy, Lily and Nuller are at their place now. Apparently Jeanette lives in a little village, and the neighbours live sort of at the end of the village with a little land and forest. So it’s not like neighbours you just see next door. But sounds like snl will have some good space. I’d just really like to have it all settled and everything in its right place. But we’ll have to see.
But a nice day with Mia, Milo and Sky. Sunny, but a bit cold, around 10C/50F with a cold wind. The greens are startin to fade, but there’s still enough for them to go around and rummage for. And we had some good time sitting on the bench too.
When I was leaving I bumped into Malene, which was very nice. Haven’t seen her in a while. She’s the leader at the playground, she mostly does indoors stuff, she’s not out working with the animals. But nice talking to her and Jeanette. They were appreciative of what I do with the goats, which is always nice. And we talked about fixing the ramps and the fence, but she told me Jesper is busy at another location and that is a higher priority right now, so it may take a while. But it’s still on the list of things to do. They were talking the hens too. Apparently they got a couple of them from another playground and I guess their lives there hadn’t been so great. They hadn’t laid eggs in years, but Jeanette said that one of them had started laying eggs here, which was big news i guess. That hen is really cuddle, it follows Jeanette around and wants attention. Sweet. She said she’d had to move my backpack, I usually put it in the wheelbarrow in the goat house, but I guess the hen likes to lay eggs there now! How about that.
well anyway, enough about hte chicken adn the egg. I crossed the road and went home and let’s hope for news about snl soon. Jeanette still says she wants to take me out there so I can see where they’ll be living, once things are all settled down. So that will be nice. i am thankful for Jeanette and her help in setting it up and helping us save snl. No wonder the hen likes her!
10/10 2022
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I put this trough up against the fence here, it’s nice when visiting kids come to the fence, the goats can stand halfway up on it and reach up to get petted. There were no kids visiting today, can’t remember the last time that happened. But Mia was still good enough to model what my intentions were.
10/10 2022
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Goat butt parade.
10/10 2022
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HappY Yogi daY everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
11/10 2022
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The greens are starting to disappear, which leaves a better and better view of the sportsfield thing next door. The goats periodically seem to be fascinated by it. Probably just the old ‘the grass is greener on the other side’ thing. If there’s a fence, goats want to get past it. That’s just their nature.
11/10 2022
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Happy Hump Day everyone, I hope it will be a good one.
12/10 2022
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goatlog
12/10 2022
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Happy space
12/10 2022
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Instead of licking food so no one else wants it, Milo just steps on it. My hay!
Oh and there’s our chicky friend in the back. I’m not used to being too close to the feathery fowls, but I saw Jeanette petting it so maybe I’ll try and see if it will let me do it too some time. That would be cute.
12/10 2022
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I hope today will be a good day. Here is Mads on the bench, in 2006. It’s been around for a while!
13/10 2022
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Good goat times today. Starting to get a little chilly, even with my jacket. May need to start thinking about longsleeved shirts. Hopefully I don’t need to start wearing the winter coat for a while yet.
But it’s always good to be with the goats. I have not been doing so well mentally lately. It’s nice to just sit with the goat buddies and forget about the world and the worries. We had some sweet visitors at the fence too. One of their grownups remarking on how great Mia was with the kids. Yup, I definitely am glad they listened to me when I sang her praises and told them they had to take Mia. Perfect with kids.
Later the trio were foraging over by the tall fence next to the sportsfield. Suddenly all three of them startled and ran away to a safe distance. I have no idea what they saw. But then their eyesight is considerably better than mine. Maybe it was someone walking their dog on the far side of the field. Or maybe some small animal somewhere or a leaf in the wind, who knows. But for the next 20 minutes Mia stood and suspiciously stared in that general direction. Which did give me the chance to sit on the bench with moth Milo and Sky, doesn’t happen too often without the big queen forcing her way up to be with her peasant on the bench.
The goating was good but I managed to wreck my body when I got home. Went shopping twice. To stock up on pepsi max and other sodas. Even though my back was already aching after the first run I made the mistake of going again and buying even more. Eight 1½ litre bottles. I barely made it home, all the way chanting in my head ‘this was not smart’ over and over to try to not think of the pain. And when I got home I collapsed for like 30 minutes without being able to do anything, in pain and with zero energy. A snack and some painkillers helped a bit, but I’m still feeling slightly woozy. Note to self, don’t do that again. At least I got enough pepsi max for the rest of the week…
13/10 2022
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Aw, Mia really is the perfect petting goat. The crowd is enthralled. That’s Jeanette furthest back with the glasses. And I think it’s Milo poking his tail into the frame. And of course our feathery friend is hanging out with us too.
13/10 2022
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Someone noticed the camera! And Mia doing her great job still.
13/10 2022
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Mia, staring down whatever demon apparition hath arosed on the sportsfield.
13/10 2022
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Here’s ‘the egg pooper’ as Keiko called her. In the wheelbarrow in the goat house. You can see I had to put my backpack up on the shelf above to avoid risk of coming home with a bad omelette later. She’s pretty cute that chicky. Haven’t quite worked up the courage to try petting her yet, but she likes being around us it seems. Jeanette says she follows her around a lot too. Companionable little girl.
13/10 2022
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Here is Bruce and Clark from 2014. Hope today will be a good day. I got some bad news. My parents both have covid. My mom had been sick for a while but the doctors thought it may be an infection. But now they’re both sick and diagnosed with the croner. They’re doing fine, nothing alarming for now. But it’s hard not to worry because they are up in age and a myriad of pre-existing conditions. But hopefully there won’t be any complications. They’re vaxed and covid generally seems a lot less scary these days. Hooves crossed it will pass quickly.
14/10 2022
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goatlog
14/10 2022
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Mia’s got some set of horns on her.
14/10 2022
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Rest in peace Robbie Coltrane. I think to most Americans he is mostly known from Harry Potter, which is a thing i have never watched so I don’t know how big his role in that was. But I grew up absolutely loving him in Cracker, a British drama series from the 90s. He was phenomenal in that. That role has stuck with me all these years.
14/10 2022
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Happy Caturday everyone, I hope it’s a good one.
15/10 2022
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Sky thinks uncle needs breath spray.
15/10 2022
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Happy Funday everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
16/10 2022
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goatlog
16/10 2022
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Here is some Milo face for your Sunday. I’m feeling the depression a lot, but keeping on keeping on. I spent a day and night in bed and had some great dreams. I read that you can’t read in dreams, but I often can. A recurring theme in my dreams is old used books stores, I used to go to Bogshoppen a lot when I was a kid and get comics and stuff. Last night I was picking up Calvin & Hobbes collections in a bookstore. I miss C&H although I greatly respect Bill Waterson for retiring no his own terms and following his own vision. I got all the albums that were released in Danish, but I also got the English versions. That was one of the earlier instances of me realising that hey I actually prefer English to Danish a lot of the time and I know English well enough that I can actually enjoy the original versions instead of waiting for translations. That’s how you become one of the cool kids in school, you read Calvin & Hobbes in English. No wonder I got all the girls! nb I may be lying.
Anyway. What was I talking about. Dreams. I spent some time earlier googling people I had met in my dreams to see if they really existed in the real world. It seems there are people called Flagboy and Ezequiel Moss but they are nothing like the people I met in my dreams.
Anyway. Hope you’re all doing well out there. Thanks for paying attention to me. I appreciate the army of supportive spirits in my back, the wind beneath my butto.. wings. One day a day.
16/10 2022
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Got a message request from someone who has apparently clone the profile of an fb friend that passed away earlier in the year. Sheesh. How low can you go.
16/10 2022
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Well well well. My brother has the covid now too. He’s fine, but he’s been diagnosed with it. My parents are fine too, I’m not sure they’re completely over it yet, but no complications.
More and more I figure, I probably had it when I had that weekish of being sick a few weeks ago. Hopefully Peter won’t have any complicaions either.
We’ll see if I get anything now, I was with Peter briefly on Saturday.
16/10 2022
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Think goat thoughts. Again, thanks for all the heart and soul.
16/10 2022
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That’s all for now.