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ood goat times today. Still cold. But we got a good deal of sunshine today, which helps. It’s Fall vacation in Denmark, which funnily enough means LESS visitors than normal. Since the new neighbour school is closed. But we did get a littel group, I think two adults and two kids. They got to feed and pet the goats, so that was good for all.
There was a major giant huge change at the playground today. I will tell you later with a photo. Sorry about the clickbait, but you know how it goes. Okay okay, it’s nothing impoirtant or exciting. It involves sunshine, though.
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16/10 2023
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Here’s the big change. Can you tell? Haha. I moved the bench. Jeanette actually suggested it last week, to move the bench into the sun. But I declined. I didn’t think it was necessary, and I liked the bench where it was, at the base of the mountain, close to the goat house and the gate. But, the cold got to me. So I dragged the bench to the far side of the goat pen today. And spent some really lovely time sitting there in the sun with the goats. I would rather be sitting closer to the goat house and fence and gate, but the sun doesn’t reach there anymore. And I’m going to need the sun, when it’s there.
16/10 2023
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Dang. Seems like tomato season is over. The last week or two the tomatoes have been pretty bad. I have been eating lots of maters. Guess I’ll be leaving them to the goats now, until next spring, if we make it that far. I’ll miss ’em.
16/10 2023
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Oh Luna. After I moved the bench I spent a good long time sitting in the sun with the goats. And of course the kids got sleepy. They usually take a nap after we’ve been running around for an hour or two. I love when they use me as a pillow. Their little eyes twitching. I could feel Luna’s breathing slowing down. And then a couple of times her heart would start beating faster, like she was dreaming of chasing butterflies. The sweetest is when they make little noises in their sleep. Tiny little dream bleats. Doesn’t happen very often. I got a couple from Luna today. And once from Bella. Bella’s voice is a lot calmer than Luna’s. And her sleep-bleats were like tiny little baby bleats. So darn adorable.
16/10 2023
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Off to the doctor’s office today. For a yearly checkup. I think it’s been more than a year since the last one.. kind of been skirting out on it, along with all the other health stuff. I have barely been functioning, it’s been a bad year and a quarter.
We’ll have to see what the blood and urine tests say, but I am expecting that my blood sugar levels have skyrocketed. I have been eating very poorly, stopped exercising, put on like 15 pounds. Yeah it’s not been going so well. The nurse was quite sympathetic and understanding when I mentioned some of the stuff that’s been going on. We’ll see what the results say and what they’ll want to do. Not looking forward to it.
Another notable thing today was that I used my new bus card for the first time. Rejsekortet. The travel card. As I mentioned a while ago they are phasing out the machines that let you buy tickets with cash in the busses. And I go by bus so rarely that it would be stupid to have one of the longer running passes that I’ve had in the past. So I had to come up with an alternative, and I was really worried about that since everything is digital on apps and phones and whatnot these days, which I can’t use. But turns out the travelcard isn’t and app. It’s just a card. I guess there’s a chip in it and you hold it up the readers in the bus. It sounded super easy on paper, but it was still causing anxiety for me. I kept pictuing myself there in the bus getting the ANGG REJECTED noise instead of the DING ACCEPTED noise. I looked at several videos on youtube just to make sure how to do it. But it went fine. It’s literally just holding the card to the machine and both my check-ins and check-outs worked as they should. So that’s good. This is a case where the change is actually good, it is way cheaper and easier than the cash ticket. The ticket machines are also anxiety inducing for me, because there you have to insert coins and make selections in menus. Way harder. That troubled me so much that I used to get my dad to come along when I needed to get cash tickets. The travelcard is so much easier, as long as it works anyway. I am sure I will always have some anxiety when using it. Being blind and social phobic is not a fun combination, it leaves you feeling helpless a lot.
But anyhoo. Glad that’s done, sometimes change isn’t bad. But you just have to drag me kicking and screaming into it. We’ll see how the test results go next week. I would rather have been goating today, but oh well.
17/10 2023
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My Seth Green / Patrick Warburton fanfic is coming along nicely.
17/10 2023
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Moving the bench yesterday was not the only new place I sat. I don’t know if you can tell from the picture, but I am actually sitting on one of the platforms here. For the first time ever. It’s the platform with the less steep ramp. Although i did not climb the ramp to get up, I am not a goat. Unfortunately. I dragged the black tub over there and got up on that and then was juuust able to get my keyster up on the platform. Getting down again was tricky because I could only just with a lot of stretching reach my foot back down on the tub. But it was fun to sit on the platform with the goats. Maybe next summer I’ll get up there on some sunny days and lounge with the goat crew. Gravity is a harsh mistress though, I usually stick closer to the surface. Sometimes with my face plantedc in the grass.
17/10 2023
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goatlog
18/10 2023
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Feeling a bit nauseated and tired today. Hope I didn’t catch anything at the doctor’s office. I was sitting at a table and the guy on the other side of it was sneezy and coughy. And he went into the nurse’s office before my turn. I’m sure it’s just the hypochondria and paranoia. Or maybe it’s typhoid. Hashtag pray for Lasse.
18/10 2023
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Of course when you put a tub somewhere, it won’t be long until there’s a goat on it. Here’s Luna.
She actually was up on the platform first, and then she wanted to jump down onto the tub. And she did that thing of walking back and forth on the edge of the platform looking down, like judging the distance and probability of surviving the giiiiant leap. Pretty cute.
18/10 2023
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I don’t get that chance that often, but I like to bear hug a goat. They’re not too fond of being restricted, so I generally don’t do it. Bella sometimes gets up with her legs up over mine, and she doesn’t seem to mind if I grab a quick hug like this.
Oh and I’m feeling pretty okay right now, pretty tired but it’s almost bedtime anyway. Don’t think I’m coming down with anything. Probably. Unless the typhoid is dormant and just waiting to kick back in . We’ll see. Hashtag pray for soup.
18/10 2023
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Time to head to dreamland. Last night I dreamt that I was being initiated into the Dharma Initiative. A low level position, maybe in the car pool. I think I was wearing a grey jumpsuit. Not sure if it was back in the heyday of DI or if it was a contemporary resurgence. Don’t forget, we’re the good guys, Michael.
Goodnight.
19/10 2023
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Good goat times today. It was a sad start to the day. I checked in on Facebook before leaving the house and saw the sad news of Esther the wonder pig’s passing. Shocking and heartbreaking. I think most of you knew Esther, certainly the ones in the goat circle of friends. I know some worked at the sanctuary and I think some found Mia’s page through comments I’d left on her page. She was something special, and the family and friends did wonderful things. As I’m sure they will continue to do, in her honour. The kind of stuff they did and the sanctuary they made and the things they stood for is exactly what I would have done if I was a better functioning and capable human, and had the chance. Animals mean everything, to the world and to the people in it. Don’t I know it for myself with the goats. Sad to see Esther passing almost exactly six months after Mia. Two big ladies. I had a slight taste of going viral with Mia, but Esther was an international superstar. And that was used to do great things.
But I won’t go on about it now. I posted a tribute on the goat page too if you want to read that.
The goats did their best to cheer me up today. They were running up a storm. Literally, it was storming. Cold cold wind. I was already sad about Esther and feeling slightly dizzy and off, and the wind was not helping. Not feeling great. But it was great to see the goats run. They were sprinting like i’ve rarely seen. The kids are so fast. And even Sky came running, dragging her saddlebags. Not as fast as the kids, but she got up to some high speed too. Certainly faster than i am with my saddlebags. So that got some laughs out of me.
I got to meet hte new leader, Andrea, again too. For the second time. Jeanette was showing her the storage room and giving instructions for feeding the goats. Andrea will be on feeding duty tomorrow. I am glad she will be ‘getting her hands dirty’ with that stuff, I think taking care of the animals is probably not in job responsibilities, but it’s good when the captain of the ship doesn’t mind helping with the oars. Or something. My impressions from our two first meetings is that she is super super sweet and seems to give off a gentle and kind vibe. So that’s good. She asked a bit about the facebokbok page too, so she knows about that.
Bless all the people doing good for animals. If we’re not doing good then what the fokfok are we doing here anyway.
19/10 2023
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The gruesome threesome, in the bedroom out of the stormy wind. Jeanette actually put the blanket on me again today, even with a jacket and a longsleeved shirt and a t-shirt I was still freezing in the chill wind.
19/10 2023
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Butt – head.
20/10 2023
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Well that’s a first. Jehova’s witnesses at the door. i didn’t realise they did that in Denmark. Fkkers. If it wasn’t because I’d ordered pizza I wouldn’t even have opened the door. Closed it pretty darn fast on them. Peddling religion at the door, go to hell.
20/10 2023
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Islands in the sun.
20/10 2023
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Don’t stand so, don’t stand so, don’t
20/10 2023
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I miss watching MTV at 1am on a school night.
21/10 2023
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Hey look, the newfeathers made it ALMOST all the way to the goat house. So close. They still haven’t mingled with the goats, but it can’t be long now. Unless Luna manages to scare them off..
21/10 2023
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They even butt heads standing precariously on a steep ramp.
21/10 2023
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I still haven’t forgiven them for cancelling The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Who was the real monster? The Terminator? OR US
21/10 2023
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goatlog
22/10 2023
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I just fell asleep at the computer. Here is a re-enactment by Luna.
22/10 2023
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That’s all for now.