Rip pants
Good goat times today. Rained overnight, but almost no rain while I was out. Almost. I miss heat. And if the heat comes back I’ll miss the cool. So it goes.
The goats are going well. Seems like we have survived the first week of our nightmarish ordeal. Jeanette’s vacation, I mean. They all seem to be doing fine. And they make my heart swell and my frown turn upside down. Love having Luna crawling around on me. Bella trying to knock her down. Sky looking up at me with giant saucer eyes like “y u no give me treat, I saw u give tem treat”. Yeah yea. It’s happened a couple of times recently that people have thought Sky was pregnant. I don’t think she’s missing any treats.
24/7 2023
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Poor Sky, bereft of treats. Skin and bones. The Hunger Games, Goat Edition. Etc.
23/7 2023
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Twitter has been rebranded to.. X. I could go on for ages about the stupidity. But I have to say, this is now my favourite tweet that I have ever tweeted, I almost wish I paid for premium twitter so I could use enough characters to copy the entire parrot sketch, but I ‘m still pretty dang proud of myself.
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Lasse Plume
@djaliplume·
10m
This social media platform is no more!
It has ceased to be! It’s expired and gone to meet its maker! It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace!
It’s kicked the bucket, it’s shuffled off its mortal coil and joined the bleedin choir invisible!
This is an EX TWITTER
#TwitterX
24/7 2023
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Here is Sky on the mountain. I was surprised she went up there. It rained last night and they don’t like going on the mountain when the ground is wet. But she went up there, and stood there and scouted for a long time. Like 10ish minutes. Looking out over the sports field beyond the pen. I almost got the thought that she could be looking for Milo… but I don’t think so. I think goats live in the moment and adapt, and Sky has been a lot happier since the kids arrived. But who knows. Who knows how their memory works. They definitely remember stuff. They remember which of my pockets is the one that has treat. They recognise different people and react to them. Who knows.
It was hard not to think about whether somewhere far-ish away was Milo standing somewhere, looking out of a landscape thinking of Sky? Sigh. I hope he’s doing okay. I feel so guilty about it all. But I can allow myself to think too much about it or I will just break apart.
I wonder if somewhere above, on a heavily weighted down cloud, are Mia and Mio and countless others looking down and watching us. Who knows. Who knows what we see when our eyes drift out of focus and see beyond what is there.
I sure do love Sky. From the tiny chubby chipmunk to the underdog running to safety under the goat house to merrily speeding up and own the mountain with her brother to now the big top goat, large (but not pregnant) and in charge.
24/7 2023
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Good goat times today. Almost no rain again today. Almost. I can see in the news that it’s been a super hot summer, diastrously so in some places right now. But it’s been the wettest July ever in Denmark apparently. Moist.
Anyway, the goats are good. They don’t like the rain, but they like the greens that grow. Green green grows the lawn. Well fertilized too.
We had nice visitors today. A little family, refugees I think. The husband and wife spoke slightly broken, but understandable English. Asked if this was private property or if it was okay for them to be there. Totally fine. They had a couple of highly energetic boys. And I think a younger kid in a stroller. The man asked about the goats, how old they were. And I think he asked if Sky was pregnant too haha. They were trying to get the goats to come over to the fence, but the goats were distracted by the prospects of treats from the guy in the pen. I picked up Luna and took her over to the fence so they could get some closeup time. The man asked if it was okay to use his phone and I said sure. So he got some nice pictures or video of his kids petting the goats, and I think they tried feeding them some grass. Lots of giggles, some from the boys too. The man said thank you so much afterwards. A little later the boys came into the pen and got some time real up close with the goats. Tried feeding them some orange peels, but they didn’t really want any. It was all lovely and good, until one of the boys picked up a stick and started chasing the hens. So we had to tell him that was not okay. And the parents were very sorry about it. Other than that the boys were sweet and good with the goats. And when the family left, the man again thanked me ‘a thousand times’. Hopefully they got some nice memories, and hopefully the kids learned a bit about appropriate behaviour with the animals.
Now someone teach Bella that it’s not appropriate to butt me in the leg when I walk by her. She’s doing it because she wants treats, I don’t think it’s general behaviour to worry about. She certainly didn’t do any of it when the boys were in the pen. But I think I may bring a water bottle and try to teach her not to do it. don’t want to take any risks of problems later on.
It’s not like she’s attacking or anything. I’ll just be walking away from her and then feel some little bumping against my lower leg and she’ll be there like “I wasn’t done getting treats, mister!”. Yeah, troublemaker alright.
25/7 2023
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Having soup now, as I like after a cold day with goats.
It was almost my last. I just inhaled a flourball and it got stuck in my throat. Now thankfully I gagged it up and was able to breathe. So it’s all good. Although, it would have been a good way to go. He died doing what he loved. Eating soup after spending time with goats. Put that on my headstone.
Anyway, back to the soup in progress.
25/7 2023
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Breakfast time for the goat crew. If there’s one upside to Jeanette being away it’s that I get to give them them their breakfast, which is always fun. And they dig in like I do into a pot of soup.
25/7 2023
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Hey, if you’re on the bluesky social media thing, add me. I’m djaliplume there too. I am not sure how much I am going to use it. Doesn’t seem great for accessibility. But hey, I’m in the cloud now. Maybe I should get an account for Sky.
Thank you for the invite, Jen!
25/7 2023
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Speaking of Sky, here she is hanging out with Big Red. Luna and Bella aren’t too fond of the feathers. I mean, they’re okay most of the time. But then now and then they’ll headbutt them away like ‘get outta here, this is goat territory’. The feathers just flap away and don’t seem too bothered.
25/7 2023
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Looks like Luna told Bella how nice it is to sit in the hay tub.
25/7 2023
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Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty human!
25/7 2023
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goatlog
26/7 2023
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Luna, knee-deep in breakfast.
26/7 2023
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I was planning to film a little with the goats. The goats had other plans.
26/7 2023
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By the way, in the video I just posted.. did you notice anything different?
I’ll give you a hint. New pants.
Yes. Rip pants. Rip ripped pants. I finally had to admit defeat and face the fact that these pants were bereft of life, shuffled their mortal coil, joined the choir invisible. These are ex pants.
It bums me out because I love them. That’s why I kept using them even as they fell apart. I’ve been walking around looking like a hobo. But I don’t care what people think. I hate change and I loved those pants. I really needed all the pockets. But they were literally falling apart, big tears at the feet and legs and butt. So I had to let them go.
Luckily I have another pair of the same kind. Just in black. I don’t like that so much, I always wear black shirts and it doesn’t looks as good with black pants I think, and all the goat hairs and mud spots show up more. But eh, as I said I don’t care what people think. They are great goating pants. That’s what counts to me.
But yes, RIP ripped pants. I have worn them for so long, they must have been on me while grandma was around. Maybe even back in Palle’s day. So many years. No wonder they were falling apart.
The only thing certain is everything changes.
26/7 2023
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Sleepyheads.
26/7 2023
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A video to go with the sleepy pic. I love the little dream twitches.
26/7 2023
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Good goat times today. Aaalmost no rain. Only a couple of drops. Some good sunshine, it was actually quite a lovely day.
And the littles were chatty. Bella and Luna bleating more than usual. Trying to talk me into giving them more food.
We had some nice visitors too. A group of kindergarterners or daycares. 4-5 adults and a bunch of kids. When they were approaching I heard one of the adults say to a kid “no, I don’t think that’s a policeman, I think it’s just a goatkeeper”. Haha. Officer Lasse on patrol. Investigating a Goat Theft rAisins. Well, the kids all had a good time I think. They found apples and picked grass and plants to feed the goats, and the goats were happily fed. I picked up Luna for some closeup time and I got the big tub over to the fence and Sky stood on it and got some attention. At one point she turned her back to the fence and the little girl who was trying to get her to eat some plant started brushing her tail with the plants. “I touched its butt” she gleefully announced. Haha. Good times.
27/7 2023
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Some of today’s visitors having fun with the goats.
27/7 2023
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Guess what I did today? Oh nothing, I just taught Bella to shake hoof.
Well, we’ll see if it sticks. She’s not quite as good as Luna, she’s more focused on the treat than on the hand. But she got decent at it after a bunch of repetitions. I hope she’ll remember how to do it. Would be fun to have all three of them doing it. Makes visitors happy too, like today when I shook with Sky in front of the kids.
Speaking of Sky, look at her there on the tub like “hey don’t forget about me”.
27/7 2023
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My facebox is being weird. Anyone else missing the menus on the left and right of their Facebook feeds? There’s usually stuff on both sides, like list of contacts on the right hand. Even on the goat page, it’s missing the page management stuff on the left. Not sure if it’s something with my setup. Things seem to be working okay, just missing stuff. Odd. Did my goats eat it?
27/7 2023
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goatlog
28/7 2023
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Tripod, meet Bella.
Tripod, meet ground.
At least my camera wasn’t on it this time.
28/7 2023
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The grass is always greener on the other side. And food always tastes better if you’re not supposed to have it.
Here’s Sky. Eating hay. From the tiny gap between the shelf and the wall. There’s hay in the hayfeeder. Fresh hay. in the hayfeeder that can be easily reached from ground level. BUT there’s a little gap between the shelf and the wall and through that you can reach some of the hay that’s being stored on the shelf.
There’s also some greenery on that shelf, being saved for later, but she couldn’t reach that. She was just eating hay. From the shelf. Instead of the hayfeeder. Oh goats.
28/7 2023
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Apparently the goats all got together and agreed that they should never ever eat from the hayfeeder from the ground. Here Luna is taking the harder route from above.
29/7 2023
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I feel like reading some Arthur C. Clarke. For a long time I have only really been ‘reading’ on my walks. I feel like I’m wasting my time a lot lately, when I’m not goating. Maybe I should… disappear into books. Maybe I just want to disappear.
I have had a lot more happier times lately, goat kids are such a joy. But even so there is still a lot of depression and sadness. And bad thoughts knocking on my skull, trying to get in. Sometimes with a sledgehammer. Sometimes it’s the personal things, like Milo and Mia and things I have never spoken about. And sometimes it’s the bigger picture, the whole world and everything that goes on. I know it’s kinda dumb to sit here in my own world and feel the entirery of suffering and pain and injustive, you can’t really take all that in and on yourself. It just feels so awful that humans have such capacity for greatness and yet we do so much bad. We all do. Some more than others. Anyway. You can’t fix everything. I can’t even fix myself.
So anyway, that was a ramble, but the originating thought remains. I think i’ll read some Arthur C. Clarke. I have my eye on The Songs From Distant Earth. There’s something fascinating about retro science fiction.
29/7 2023
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Another one from they hayfeeder files. Hey, Sky actually on the ground eating from it! Imagine that. And Bella is going from the top.
29/7 2023
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KAOS
29/7 2023
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I was testing out the zoom on my camera when a little buzzer buzzed in. Buzz in if you know the answer, if you don’t know the answer buzz in and be a chancer.
29/7 2023
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And for those of you who like goats, there’s Luna.
29/7 2023
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Sky is just resting her eyes!
Normally when she sits and relaxes she makes her little snoring/groaning sounds. Here she laid her head down on her hooves and stopped making those sounds. Must have dozed off. There’s a video of this live on the page any second. It’s very rare to see her like this.
29/7 2023
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goatlog
30/7 2023
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Well, it looks like I just made an executive decision to name our last redshirt Sonja. As in, Red Sonja. Who was played by Danish Brigitte Nielsen in the old movie of the same name. So, that’s Big Red Sonja and big white Henrietta Solo.
30/7 2023
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Luna is just resting her face.
30/7 2023
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A three goat salute to end the week.
30/7 2023
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That’s all for now.