Falling
Good goat times today. A little rain in the morning, mostly grey day. But not too cold thankfully. It was a quiet day. Literally. The goats were pretty quiet. They bleated when they saw me coming, but other than that there wasn’t too much chatter. Even Luna who usually talks back to me a lot was pretty quiet. Must have been tired after partying hard all weekend.
I saw the new feathers properly for the first time. They actually came out and came into first the big pen and then into the smaller one. They just walked around the fence and went back out pretty much immediately, they didn’t come up to the goat house. But hey, they’re getting braver. Maybe we’ll see them all the way up at the goats at some point.
Some nice visitors as alawys. The boy Khalil was back. Last time he was running around like his pants were on fire and we had to tell him not to chase the chickens. Today he was mucht calmeri, still excited to see the chickens, but not bothering them. This is one of the reasons for public playgrounds with animals like these, to teach kids how to be with animals. He’s a handful, but nice to see him learn how to respect the animals.
The new playground leader started work today. Just when I was leaving, Jeanette was going in for a first meeting with her. I told her to say hi from me. I wonder if she’ll come out and say hi to me at some point. I just hope she will be prioritizing the animals. Hooves crossed.
2/10 2023
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The greeting squad in the morning. Since it was raining they didn’t come running right out. Which meant I could get the zoomed in sight of them standing there. Nice to see them standing together like that.
2/10 2023
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Here are the newfeathers taking their first steps into goat territory. Jeanette was surprised to see them out here too. Four different races. One of them is big and white, so I’m not sure how easy it will be for me to tell that one apart from Henrietta Solo. But for now it’s not a problem since Henrietta walks around with Red Sonja in their own little group. Did I mention that Henrietta and Sonja don’t want to lay eggs in the chicken coop because of the new residents? Jeanette set up a box of hay they can nest in, in the gaot house. She found four eggs just while I was there today.
But welcome to the newbies, nice to see them daring to come out now. We’ll see if they end up mixing with the goats in time.
2/10 2023
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Good goat times today. It was a rainy one. Boy howdy, was it ever. Jeanette said she couldn’t remember the last time she’d seen so much coming down. She’d bought a new raincoat but it wasn’t working well and she got soaked. Trying to dig trenches to lead the water away. Good thing we were up on a hill, apparently the bunny house got flooded.
Yeah, it was a day for staying inside. If it’s going to rain, I like it to be heavy rain. At least while I’m not out in it. So I can sit and listen to it fall. With good goat company.
I met the new playground leader today. Andrea. Jeanette was showing her around the animal grounds. In the pouring rain. They came up the hill to the goat house while the rain was at its worst, pounding down. But she seemed very nice. We shook hands and I welcomed her to the place. And as always Jeanette was very complimentary of me and what I do with the goats. It is always nice to hear, nice to be appreciated. So we talked a little and then they headed back out in to the rain. A good first impression, she seemed sweet and kind. Hopefully that will hold up and she’ll want to prioritize the animals a litlte higher than the previous regime.
Other than that, it was just hanging out with my 5 little ladies, three furs and two feathers, listening to the rain. Fall has fallen.
3/10 2023
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Breakfast is a good distraction from the rain and thunder storming outside.
3/10 2023
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Notice anything anything different?
If you needed more proof that Jeanette is a lovely and caring person, well she brought me a blanket! When her and the new lead were talking to me, Jeanette remarked that I was practically wearing nothing. I had hung my raincoat in the storage room to dry, and was just wearing a t-shirt. So a little later Jeanette comes through the rain and goes “here you go” and wraps a blanket around me. I have to admit, at first I thought it was a little silly. It wasn’t THAT Cold. But after sitting in the goat house for a couple of hours, storm raging outside, I was really glad to have it. Guess I gotta start wearing my jacket now.
3/10 2023
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Since this is turning into a fashion show channel, we might as well continue the trend. After the Indy hat and the Jeanette blanket, here is my raincoat fit. Don’t worry, I’m not bombing anything.
I wonder if people think I’m nuts for wearing sunglasses in the rain. But 1) they’re filter glasses and help me even when there’s no sun and 2) actually I don’t care what people think. I’m a mud hob.
3/10 2023
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goatlog
4/10 2023
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Oh look, Luna is starting to grow a lil beard. It’s tiny, but because it’s all white it stands out when it’s against a dark background. Pretty cute. I think she’s ahead of Bella on this one.
4/10 2023
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Look at Henrietta Solo in the background, scooting under Sky! Haha. Not something I thought I’d see with dwarf goats.
4/10 2023
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Good goat times today. The rain is thankfully gone, leaving water and sludge in many places, including the street level of my apartment building. But at least we got some sun today. I miss the warmth already. Had to keep my jacket on. It was nice when we went out in the pen and sat in the sunshine, though.
Bella was up to trouble again today, now I remember why I called her the troublemaker. But I’ll show you with a photo later.
Sweet visitors in the pen today. One kid was poking around, I think it was Bella’s, backside. And her tail, Bella’s not the human’s, was wafting back and forth like ‘get away from here’. Humanswatter. The kids were sweet though, they came into the goat house since the goats weren’t too keen on going out into the muddy wastes.
Jesper handyman started laying out pavement tiles outside the goat house. Only got two done, as a test. It will be nice to have firm ground there, for the wet season. I am a little sad at the thought of them taking away the tiles from inside the house though, I like the way I lined them up in two stairways to the new platform. Jeanette said ‘maybe we’ll just have to buy some new ones’. I wish they would, but I’m not sure that’s in the budget. Still, it will help the goats to have the pavement outside to avoid the mud.
5/10 2023
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Here’s Bella being troublemaker again. There have been these signs hanging on the walls for as long as we’ve been there, with details of how to care for the goats. I don’t know why, but today Bella decided that they were an eyesore and they all had to come donw. First she got one down, and I thought haha oh well. Then later she managed to reach another one and pull that down. And I thought, whoopsie. And then even later she got a hold of a third one and pulled that down. And she was trying for a fourth, but that remained out of reach. Haha. I don’t know why today was the day she decided to try to wreck all the signs.
I gathered the ones she pulled down and gave htem to Jeanette. She made new ones. They had to be updated.. because of the name of goats on them.. sigh. They’ve been up since Mia and Milo were there.
Well, she put the new one up and we’ll see if they last. Or if Bella’s vendetta against laminated paper continues.
5/10 2023
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Luna checking out the first steps on what will become the new pathway.
5/10 2023
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goatlog
6/10 2023
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Currently editing footage from the big rain day. Here’s the bit where Jeanette comes in and gives me the blanket. Funny thing, in the beginning where you see her coming up on the hill, I didn’t even realise she was there. I was just filming out the door to get some rain footage. Wasn’t until she was right up at the house I realised she was coming. But boy howdy that was a lot of rain in a short time.
6/10 2023
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Don’t fall down, Bella! From this angle it looks like quite the balancing act.
7/10 2023
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Someone left a comment on a video on the goat page saying I was a meanie for ignoring Luna. Snort. Okay, in that particular video I was focusing on Sky, and not paying that much attention to Luna. But that’s only because the kids demand so much attention, in that particular moment I was making sure Sky felt that she got plenty of love, and treats, too. I don’t think Luna feels ignored. It’s not like it’s possible to ignore a goat kid who constantly crawls all over you. And she definitely doesn’t miss a treat.
7/10 2023
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Speaking of Luna being woefully ignored by the big beanie meanie, here she is leaning on me to reach some leaves. We were out in the sun for a change. And she took me by surprise and jumped right up on my shoulder and stood on my back, for like 5 seconds, before I made her jump off. It’s fun to have a goat on my back again though, even if it’s bad for my back.
7/10 2023
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Yes, it’s a week into October. Of course you should be firing off fireworks all night. Sigh.
I read a newspiece about the government tightening the fireworks laws so you’re only allowed to fire them off on two days around new ytear’s. iI was so excited. Then I read the article and it said that it was only a tightening of 4 days or something. So.. it’s already illegal to fire off fireworks other than just around new year’s? I don’t know. Maybe it’s big fireworks or maybe they’re just not actually doing anything to uphold the law, because yeah there’s barely a week without fireworks in my neighbourhood. And the last couple of days there has been plenty.
Oh well. It’ll get worse in December.
Speaking of that giant rain fall we had, there was a casualty. My dad’s phone. He goat soaked and when he came home he put his clothes in the washer and drier and well.. you can guess where this is going. So him and mom had to go downtown and get a new phone and sim card and there was a whole ordeal with that, but hopefully his phone is working now. Like me, he does not have a smart phone. So at least it wasn’t a monster expensive eyePhone.
In other news I tried a new pizza place today and it was great, so that’s nice. It’s good to have alternatives when one of them rudely decides to go on vacation or something like that. I’m the center of the universe, I should always have access to pizza.
Mentally I have not been doing great lately, but I’m trying to focus on the good. Goats, pizza and soup. And other things that I can’t mention here. It’s between me and Kristen Bell and I’ll thank you to not poke your nose into our business!
Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery and read the fine print before placing your order, thank you for shopping Lassecorps. A new life awaits in the offworld colonies. This concludes todays sermon, make sure to tip your nun on the way out.
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7/10 2023
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It’s too bad my camera went blurry in the second shot, I don’t know if that was a yawn or what Red Sonja was doing, but it looked pretty funny.
8/10 2023
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I love Luna’s tiny beard, and how its split in two so it looks like a triangle.
8/10 2023
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That’s all for now.