The Fatman With The Hat
Good goat times today. The mornings are getting darker. But lovely day with a good deal of sunshine. And the goats hit the jackpot. Jeanette brought a trailer-load of greens from home, trimmings of hedges and trees. So that was a lovely surprise for the furbies. It didn’t take long before Bella had jumped on top of the pile and was eating it from above. But that’ll give them something to munch on for quite a while.
We had sweet visitors too. A girl called Lily, she’s been there before. Once again she was very interested in me and my camera. Picked it up and tried to push some buttons on it too. Very sweet. Non verbal, but making sounds to communicate at times. And she got to pet the goats too. Very sweet.
25/9 2023
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Jeaentte bringing the goods.
25/9 2023
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The goats enjoying the leaves, Bella right up in it.
25/9 2023
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Sorry bout the bad quality, but the company doesn’t get much better.
25/9 2023
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Good goat times today. Lovely day with some nice sunshine, once through the colder darker morning. Pretty quiet day today, but we did have visitors. And the goats had treats and cuddles. I did try something funny today, but it’ll be a day or two before I show you probably. Nothing important, just a little gag. You know me, I’m a comedian. A sitdown comedian, because standing up is hard. As Slurm McKenzie said, imma go lie down.
26/9 2023
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Hanging out with my best gal. I know the kids get a lot of attention, goat kids demand attenion. But rest assured Sky is still my number one girl. Every time I sit down, or am just standing around, she comes over to me and puts her horns against my leg or my hands if they’re within reach. She demands to be petted and scratched. If I don’t start scratching her between the horns then she’ll nudge me with them till I do it. And if I am occupied with something she’ll nudge me a few times and then go ‘alrite, he’s busy, i’ll try again later’. The kids are frantic and insisting, but much more focused on food and treats. And Luna just wants to climb all over me and smooch and nibble on hats and badges and everything. Sky is a lot calmer, although of course she also wants the treats. But I always love when she demands her scritches. Every morning when I’m stretching my legs after walking she’ll be there, horns against my leg.
She doesn’t like sitting on the bench though, she wants to sit on the tub. Sometimes it almost looks like she’s snubbing us, I’ll be sitting with the kids and she’ll be there facing the other direction haha. But I think it’s pretty random how she sits. Sometimes she’ll be facing me and then she starts doing the scoot down to sit and she’ll end up facing away. I always want her to be facing me so I can give her some scratches, but she’s fine just sitting there for ages turned the other way. Sometimes she’ll go sit on the platform too. She likes her alone time now and then.
But yes, just want to make it clear that she’s still getting a whole lotta love and attention. Jeanette always makes sure she at least gets a chance to get some carrot sticks when the visitors feed the goats too. The kids of course snarf them down immediately and continuously, but Sky is slower and sometimes she doesn’t want them and if she does want them she usually have to nibble at them for a bit before she gets them in her mouth. I have shown in videos on the page too that sometimes in the morning it’s like she can’t eat the peanuts, they drop out of her mouth. She can take the raisins okay, and once she’s had some of those she can usually take the peanuts, it’s like she needs to warm up her mouth first.
Anyway, enough rambling! I love my Sky girl. She’s all I have left of the old days and she means the world to me.
26/9 2023
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Another one in the *exasperated sigh* series. This one was my fault, though. Placing the camera on a non-level surface… whoops. Eat grass!
26/9 2023
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Looks like Luna has learned a trick from Bella, sitting on the platform with the legs hanging over the edge.
27/9 2023
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Didn’t get that fun thing I promised done today. Had a hard time getting out of bed, slept in for hours. Felt depressed. Lots of depression lately, unfortunately. I am happy when I am with the goats, though. Glad I have that place. And these girls.
27/9 2023
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Good goat times today. A lovely day, pretty warm and sunny. I know I’ve said it before, but this time it really probably is the last one. The forecast ahead is pretty downcast. But still, it’s almost October, so it’s pretty impressive having a day that reaches 20C/68F. Let’s thank all the farting cows for the global warming, let the next generations worry about it.
Aaanyhoo. Just good to be with the goats again, where I feel good. Just hanging around. We had several groups of visitors today. One group came while Jeanette wasn’t there, so I went to the fence and talked a little with them. Then Jeanette came out and the kids got to feed carrot sticks to the goats. And I came up in the conversation, what I do with the goats and my facebook page and everything. It’s always nice to get a little recognition. People are usually impressed when I say I have over 30,000 followers. Never mind there’s only a fraction of that who are really active and engaged users. It’s still cool. And i usually give them the fb name so hopefully they can look up the page and see more about the goats.
Luna is becoming a really good petting goat. Once the carrot sticks are consumed at least. The kids are frantic for the treats. But after they’re gone, Luna will stand still and let the humankids pet her, she’s reminding me a bit of grandma and Mia like that. I hope she’ll keep it up. She’s also very smoochy to me now, if i make kissy noises at her she’ll usually try to smooch me, sometimes even without it ending up with her trying to eat my nose. She’s a doll.
28/9 2023
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Jeanette and the kids entertaning visitors.
28/9 2023
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Sometimes when I get there in the morning the goats are up on the platform. The funny thing is that Luna is there on the ramp. I am not sure if Sky and Bella kept her frmo getting all the way up, but I don’t think so. It has happened sometimes when I’m there too, it almost seems like she likes standing there on the ramp. It’s the steepest one too. You wouldn’t think it was a very comfortable way to hang out, but I guess according to goat logic, if you’re on something then you’re good.
28/9 2023
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goatlog. This is from a different day than the photo I posted yesterday, but you can see in the beginning of this Luna is also perched on the ramp instead of being up on the platform. Seems she just likes standing like that.
29/9 2023
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Snerpfrerpit. Spent hours trying to find a way to get videos to post on the goat page. Finally worked, but I am not even sure if it was something I did or if fb fixed something. I still can’t upload videos through the fb content system place, raw videos from my camera upload okay but the ones I have edited and compressed don’t work. I tried so many codecs and filters and ugh. This wasn’t how I wanted to spend my day. But as long as it works to a degree, now. Hopefully.
I’m gonna go hop into a pot of soup.
You know, a witch would have a really easy time with me. Wouldn’t have to trick me to get itno the oven or into the pot, I’d just go. CHARBROILED.
29/9 2023
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Haha. After a couple of messages offering me 1800 bucks to post ads on the goat page, now I got one offering 7000 those. That’s per week though, not per ad. But still, I need to get that Moneypenny costume cos I’ma be swimming in dollar bills.
29/9 2023
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Well, actually
29/9 2023
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Aw, Luna. Haha. I put one of the branches Jeanette brought around her neck and it almost looks like a handkerchief or something, fancy goat dressup. And edible, which is always good.
29/9 2023
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Goats! Why’d it have to be goats?! I love goats, now I’ll never be able to tear myself away and go fight nazis.
Haha. Well, this was the dumb gag I was promising. As you may be aware I have been rewatching the Indiana Jones movies. And that reminded me, once upon a blue moon I actually bought a hat. I don’t even remember what I was intending to do with it, if I was going to try to seriously use it as a style upgrade. Or if I was going to take dumb goat photos with it. Probably the latter. I may even have taken some pictures years ago, I don’t honestly remember. But then I stuffed it in a box and put it away. But I thought since I’m on an Indy trip it would be fun to dust it off and take it for a spin. When Jeanette saw me sitting on the bench wearing it she went “Is that a new hat? How cool!”. Haha. I suspect she was being polite. Or too far away to get a good look. It doesn’t fit too well and heck I don’t even know if I got it on right. The goats… didn’t really care. Didn’t even really want to try to eat it. Everyone’s a critic!
30/9 2023
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It’s not the years, Honey. It’s the mileage.
Luna is kissing my booboos away.
I feel like I should point out that I am not intending to wear the hat in the future, I just brought it to take some photos and video because of my current Indy trip. Don’t expect to see it after that, and feel free to make fun of it. Haha. At least I am mudcovered like a real archaeologist who’s been on adventures in the jungle.
30/9 2023
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Asked Sky if she thought I looked good in the hat, not sure how to interpret that reaction…
30/9 2023
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The dork in the hat is back *indy fanfare*
My Indiana Jones rewatch just finished The Last Crusade. I love that movie. I know it’s not the highest regarded of them, but I always enjoyed it a lot. It’s another fun adventure. Definitely playing it safe, probably because they were coming off Temple Of Doom. I love parts of Temple, but the rampant racism and misoginy and the improbable story and darkness just makes it less enjoyable to me. Crusade is bright and fun. And Connery is a delight, to me at least. It’s a lot of what I want from an Indy movie.
Next up is Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. Uh oh! Haha. It will be interesting to watch it again. I barely remember it. The other ones I have watched so many time, but Skull only once. And that wasn’t even a proper viewing. Because of my social phobia I do not go to the cinema. And there was a period in my life where I would ..ahem.. acquire.. movies from the internet. I would download cam copies. Remember the Seinfeld episode where Kramer films movie in the theatre? Well, that’s the kind of version I watched of some movies. Because I couldn’t wait for them to be released on dvd. So, that’s a bad way to watch a movie. I wonder if I will enjoy it more when I watch a proper quality version. We will see, I guess! I have seen some people, whomst have not enjoyed the new movie, saying that in hindsight Skull wasn’t actually as bad as its reputation.
That concludes my movie report for now. Tip o the hat to ya.
30/9 2023
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goatlog
1/10 2023
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I’m not out of hat pics yet, sorry.
1/10 2023
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Don’t worry, Sky. I’m not going to put the hat on YOU.
