Heartsung
Good goat times with the littles today. It was a high-energy morning. Sky was all afloofed and was running up and down and doing pirouettes. Before I even got into the pen! Normally she does that on the mountain when I get them going. I can’t remember her ever being like that when I arrive in the mornings. Maybe she was just happy to see me. Or maybe she was in heat, there was some posturing and grunts going on. Or maybe it was because of the heat. It was a hot day. One of those humid heats. Bordering on unpleasant at times. So there was a lot of goat panting going on after they’d run around in the heat for a while. And then later a lot of sitting around and relaxing in the sun.
15/5 2023
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Our little bundle of energy. Meanwhile I take 5 minutes and 10 long groans to get up from a sitting position.
15/5 2023
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In other news, I think i’ve hurt a rib.
I gots a hurt in my left rib cage place thing. You k now me and how I constantly break or bruise ribs. I haven’t fallen this time and I haven’t had any experience where I got a rib pushed or anything. But it feels like when I’ve had a bruised rib in the past. Not as bad as the Palle fall, but it hurts when I do certain movements.
So that’s great, nice to have some physical pain to take attention away from the mental pain, hooray. When god closes a window he breaks a rib, as the old saying goes.
I’m fine really, I mean not in general, but just mildly annoyed about the rib. I may have slept on it wrong because i’m sleeping mostly in my chair these days and it’s not a recliner, so I’m sort of sleeping leaning over the side and I probably pushed a rib like that. Either that or one of the oats got me without me noticing.
15/5 2023
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Upclose and Milo.
15/5 2023
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Now I am become fat, destroyer of cakes.
16/5 2023
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Watch out, Sky. I think Milo is planning a prank.
16/5 2023
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Some highlights from Sky’s energetic morning, with uncle Laughtrack in the background.
16/5 2023
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Good goat times with the littles today. Less energetic morning this time, but Sky was quite feisty today. She was headbutting a lot with Milo, and seemed to instigate most of it. Good for her standing up to bigger brother. No doubt he is ascerting his dominance. He’s started doing a bit of the growling thing when I give treats to Sky. Like Mio and Mia before him. I guess it’s just something the dominant goat will do when the ‘lesser’ ones get treats, such an injustice! When I give them treats I usually have to preoccupy Milo a bit with his so I can get one to Sky too. If I try to hand one to Sky first then Milo comes barging in and pushes her away. And then later they’ll sit down snuggled up in the sunshine and be best of friends. I love when they sit all close like that. And when they sit with me, makes me feel part of the flock.
Had some nice visitors at the fence that got to feed apple slices to the goats. And I got to talk to Maja a bit, since Jeanette has Wednesdays off. So that was nice.
17/5 2023
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Action shot of feisty Sky rearing up for the headbutt.
17/5 2023
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Milo and Sky with the visitors. Sorry bout the bad quality. But it was nice to have visitors at the fence again, seems like it’s been a while. The guy on the right was filming on his phone. And jokingly asked the kids about Milo “he doesn’t have a longer beard than me, does he?”. Fraid so. Nobody compete with Milo on that front these days.
17/5 2023
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What’s this? Stacks of pavement tiles in the goat house. I can only assume they are going to be laid out in the goat pen soon. I’m happy about that, I have been telling them that the goats like to sit on them and that they’re good for their hooves. I’m not sure exactly how they will be used, but we’ll see.
18/5 2023
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Fambly bphoto,
18/5 2023
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For the premium subscriberse, more goofy goat highlights. They keep a smile on my face during these times.
18/5 2023
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Milo’s beard is going places.
19/5 2023
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The littles and the shadow.
19/5 2023
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Just got word that my brother Peter is waiting for an ambulance, probably going off to the hospital, possibly heart problems. My dad is with him now.
Hopefully it isn’t too alarming, my dad said his levels weren’t too good, I’m not sure if it was blood pressure or something else.
But send him some positive thoughts if you can. Or family is really taking advantage of the free health care system.
20/5 2023
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A little update about my brother. We a re hoping that he will come home tomorrow. I’m finding it a little hard tto understand exactly what was wrong, but he’s been through a lot of tests, and I think it was something about something being enlarged, not sure if it’s the whole heart or parts of it, or something. And mom said something about them wanting to maybe burn something off or shock it. But then on the other hand apparently they are expecting him to be able to go back to work on Monday. So. I don’t think it’s an emergency life-or-death right now situation, but there’s definitely something wrong. And he’s had ongoing problems with his legs too.
But we’ll see. Hopefully he’ll be back home tomorrow or maybe even late tonight. And we’ll have to see what happens then. But it’s not nothing when you’re rushed off in an ambulance and spending the whole day undergoing tests in the hospital. I think his blood pressure was too low and his pulse too high, they said.
Anyway, thank you all for the good thoughts. I appreciate the support system. My mental state is not good right now, but one day a daying it.
20/5 2023
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Well, my brother is back home. And doing okay. I think he’ll be having more tests, but it sounds like they consider the situation to be closed. I feel like it would be nice to know more about what happened, how it happened, and how to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Heart stuff is scary stuff. But I trust the doctors know what they’re doing. And he’s home and okay, that’s most important for now.
Meanwhile, I was planning to finally get back on my exercise bike today, but instead I slept some 12-13ish hours and feel depressed. But one day a day. Thank you all for caring and listening and supporting.
And also, here’s a goatlog in case you want some goat distractions.
21/5 2023
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Meanwhile, Sky is earthbound.
21/5 2023
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That’s all for now.