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Happy Mio Monday everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
9/1 2023
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Good goat times today. Dark and rainy morning. Weather to stay inside with the goats. Jeanette asked me if I wanted her to bring a blanket for me to sit with. Aw. I told her I didn’t need that, but just goes to show how considerate she is. i mostly just sat on the pallet in the entryway, with the furs and feathers milling about. I like when one of the cluckers walks under Mia. Easier than flying above her i guess! Other than that I just mostly relaxed. My ribs were hurting and my legs were too. After walking in the dark to my parents on Saturday. I’d been walking fast because I was late. And my legs always get stiff and crampy, even short normal walks. And that fast walk without proper stretching.. well my whole body just kind of feel aching. But, thankfully I can now engange soup. Finish off the last batch. Yum yum.
9/1 2023
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Inside looking out.
9/1 2023
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The sadness of an empty soup bowl. Why, god, why?! Oh the pain, the pain of it all.
9/1 2023
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Mia got tired today and sat down in the back of the entryway, after pawing the ground for a while.
9/1 2023
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Have you ever wondered what Lasse’s favourite musical recording album is? Well, it’s Adore by the Smashing Pumpkins. So now you know.
I understand a lot of people will think it’s hot garbage, but for me it is the peak of music. It is the peak of the 90s. It is the peak of pain and sorrow and isolation and pain and regret. Letting go of the loud rock of anger and turning introspective and feeling the feels. From the first wave, I drowned in it. It was so unlike anything I was expecting. It was a sledgehammer with butterfly wings. I love it forever.
Honorary mentions: Eels’ Electro-shock Blues, Radiohead’s The Bends, REM’s New Adventures In Hifi and about a billion more. I miss actually buying CDs. It’s a different world world. I miss having it physically in my hands and having it playing on my ghetto blaster. Nowadays it’s streaming and well I’m old and I’ll stop ranting.
9/1 2023
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Henrietta Solo keeping an eye on Mia.
9/1 2023
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For the premium subscribers, here are some highlights from a video going up on Mia’s page soon. Lasse laughing at silly goats.
9/1 2023
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HappY Yogi daY everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
10/1 2023
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My goat wants to party, my goat wants to party all the ti-iime.
10/1 2023
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Happy Hump Day everyone. Hope it’s a good one.
11/1 2023
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goatlog
11/1 2023
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Send pie.
11/1 2023
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Spot the chicken butt.
11/1 2023
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I hope today is a good one. Here’s Springbok from 2006.
12/1 2023
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Good goat times today. The dark, cold and wet weather continues. Mia wasn’t happy about it. She was making a lot of complainer bleats. They were out on the hill when I got there. And I couldn’t get Mia to come back in. Even tempting with treats, she didn’t want to cross the mud to get back to the goat house. Even though she was out in the wet grass. Eventually I got a wooden plank and laid it out and that got her to come back inside. All three goats walking the plank to get back in. Oh dear. Jeanette says she’d like to get some pavement tiles to lay out a path there on the hill. But with all the change in command and restructuring, it’s very hard to get money for anything right now. We’ll have to see.
We got a couple more christmas trees. There was one laying down by the bench. I dragged it up to the goat house so they could dig into that. And while they were working n that one Jeanette came with a fresh one she’d brought from home. Apparently one of her neighbours in her little village has a christmas tree farm. Although he’s apparently a bit of an odd fellow. But we might get a tree now and then from there.
Mia is still limping. I put a little pressure on Jeanette today, I’ve been asking for progress and telling her how if nothing gets done it could have serious consequences for Mia and her health. There’s bee na lot of trouble finding a vet, finding a hoof trimming person, Lars at the old place didn’t return calls for a while. I really wish Jeanette worked full time, because I hate to say it but I’m not sure all the other people working there are as focused on the goats’ health, especially after Malene stopped. And the other people don’t always seem to follow Jeanette’s directions. Annoying. But after I pressed er a bit about it today she later came back and apprently she’s found a vet now that should work. She was going to call later in the day to make an appointment. So hopefully that will be very soon. We agreed she’d send me a text once she got an appointment and then we can see if I can be there for it too. Although now i remember she’s been having problems with people not getting her texts. There was one text last year during the snl thing that she sent me and I didn’t get. So I don’t know if I’ll get this one. And don’t know if the timing could work out for me to be there anyway. But the most important thing is that Mia gets checked by the vet and something done. Whether it’s just a hoof trimming that needs to be done or she needs more treatment. Just important that we get started on it now.
Hooves crossed very soon.
12/1 2023
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In better hoof news, today I managed to teach Milo how to shake hoof! Now.. I’m not entirely sure he will retain the skill. Because he’s a wird lil fella. And I say that with love. But he got really good today. And he remembered if after some breaks of not doing it. He did really really well, so it’s promising. We’ll see if it sticks. Would be fun if all three of them could do it.
12/1 2023
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Uh oh, whatch out, redshirt!
They had it coming. I got my finger pecked today. I was wondering if that would ever happen. They have pecked at my shoe a time or two. Today one of them went after my little finger. That’s not a worm, you feathery foul! It startled me because I was paying attention to goats and didn’t see the beak attack coming. But other than that it was fine.
12/1 2023
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Walking the plank, through the mud.
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12/1 2023
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I hope today is a good one. Here is Finn and Jacob from 2009. And a tired uncle babysitter.
13/1 2023
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Hey hey. thaml ypu so much Beverly Fish for the lovely card and message! I hope you will have a splendid 2023, thanks for being such a good friend!
13/1 2023
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I think we’re both wishing for spring. We need sun and fresh greens.
13/1 2023
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Happy Caturday everyone. I hope it’s a good one. Here’s Heino.
14/1 2023
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A bit of Milo.
14/1 2023
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I.. am older than Danny Glover was when he said “I’m getting too old for this sht” in Lethal Weapon. Jeebus.
Do you ever feel like you’re Wile E. Coyote and you’ve stepped off the cliff a few years ago and it’s just a matter of time before you look down and gravity kicks in?
14/1 2023
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Happy Funday everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
15/1 2023
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A goat butt parade around the hay.
15/1 2023
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Jeanette brought some bags of wood chips to try and help against the mud. Not sure how effective it will be, but we’ll see I guess.
15/1 2023
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Sherlock Holmes is now entirely in the public domain. Which means I can finally start looking at the publication of my short story Sherlock Holmes And The Mystery Of The Disapearing Goat Treats.
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That’s all for now.