Apples + Gravel
Good goat times today. There was a little rain on my walk there, but then the sun came out. Little bit of sun, little bit of rain later on.
Big puddle at the gate, but later on Jeanette came and put out some.. gravel, maybe? Little stones. But it seemed to help a lot, for me at least.
Spent some time on the bench, in its new position. There wasn’t really enough sun to really warm me up, but it was nice to be out of the house.
We had some nice visitors. Amongst the a girl called Lily who has been there before. And surprisingly when Jeanette took her into the goat pen she came running, not to the goats, but to me. I have mentioned her before, she seems to be kind of fascinated with me. And especially my camera. She’s non verbal, but was doing a lot of pointing and sticking her hands out to me. I showed her the camera and a picture of Bella. And then I took a picture of herself and showed it to her. I am not sure if it really registed for her that she was looking at a picture of herself, she didn’t react much more than the general interest in the camera. But she’s very sweet. She was with an adult and another kid named Otto. I guess he is non verbal too. They didn’t talk, but they had a hand sign or gesture for goats. I think it was a gesture mimicking the goat beard, because the gesture of putting your fingers up on your head like horns means ‘cow’ to them, their supervisor told us. But they can say ‘goat’ with their sort of sign language, so that’s nice.
30/10 2023
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Here is my new friend Lily. I don’t know why she is so fascinated with me, I’d think the goats are much more interesting. But she is very sweet. I hope she liked seeing the picture of herself.
30/10 2023
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Happy place.
30/10 2023
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I bought apples today. I usually buy apples to have for the goats. Today I bought more apples, to have for me. Instead of candy.
Sigh, I miss candy.
On the flipside I usually buy lots of tomatoes to have for myself. Now I only buy some for the goats, because they’re no longer good enough for me.
Turn turn the seasons turn.
30/10 2023
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Good goat times today.
Cold, though. Rainy and with a cold, cold wind. Gotta get my sweater out of storage. Wasn’t comfortable today.
There was a little lake over the gravel/stones that Jeanette laid out yesterday at the goat gate. Still, even with the water it was a lot better than when there was mud. Jeanette told me she’d went and got more of the little stones, so she’ll put more out.
So of course it was an indoor day, staying in teh goat house. With Red Sonja and Henrietta Solo too of course. The newfeathers poked their head in once, but ran straight back out. I’m sure they tell Halloween storied of the scary Luna monster. Actually, Luna hasn’t interacted with the newfeathers that I have seen. She did send Sonja squawking away once today.
We had a couple of visitors too, they had to come up to the goat house to say hi to the goats of course
Time to warm up with some soup now.
31/10 2023
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Well, the picture is really bad. But I thought it should be noted that Henrietta Solo started eating from Sky’s breakfast bowl too today. Red Sonja must have told her about the possibilities. It was kind of funny seeing both cluckers pecking out of Sky’s bowl while Sky was face deep in it.
31/10 2023
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Here’s Luna doing her best Keiko impression.
31/10 2023
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Happy Halloween and assorted feasts to those who celebrate. Sure hope the kids won’t be mad when I hand out apples instead of candy.
31/10 2023
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Rest in peace Richard Moll. I loved him on Night Court. Sad that so many of that cast are gone, but so it goes I suppose.
1/11 2023
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goatlog
1/11 2023
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Boy, my legs are tired.
I’m only casually metioning that so I can indicate that I exercised today. Someone pat me on the head and tell me i’m a good boy.
I’m enjoying the exercise, glad to be back at that. Not enjoying not eating candy. Mental withdrawal. Just want to stuff my face. As the nailer said to the sun. Maybe I should just forget about living healthily and hope the docs can medicate me to good levels? Isn’t that a good plan? Someone pat me on the head and tell me yes.
Feeling the depression, and the cold isn’t helping. But we carry forth, whoever he is.
1/11 2023
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I call this picture “A World Outside”. Portraying Bella as an inmate in the prison courtyard, staring though the fence. Yes I am very arty fart, sorry for tooting my own horn.
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1/11 2023
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Good goat times today. A tiny bit warmer and kept dry while I was out. Helped a lot.
I nearly got knockouted by Luna. She was standing on the wallmount with her hind legs and had he front legs on my legs and her head in front of me. And then Bella came up behind her and started trying to push her. And Luna swung her head and fell on the ground but knocked me right in the kisser with her horns. Knocked my glasses halfway off. Had to check that I didn’t ahve a bloody nose haha. Those kids.
On the other hand, Luna was nicer with the feathers today. Henrietta Solo actually ate a littel from the same bowl as Luna, I thought she’d get a knockout like mine, but no she got a gentle little head push. And later on there were several times when Luna was close to Henrietta and Sonja without going after them like she has in the past. I don’t know if this is a sign that she’s getting more accepting of their proximity or if it’s just random chance. Maybe she’d had her fill of bloodlust from her attack on me. She’s lucky she’s so cute and gets away with it all.
2/11 2023
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Fnurgnfnuff. Putting on a pot of soup. Turned on the wrong hotplate. Had an actual plate sitting on the one I turned on. And a plastic jug on that plate. Couple of minutes later… why am I smelling burnt plastic? Sigh. At least I was smart enough to use a cloth to take the plate off the hotplate. Put it in the sink where it promptly exploded into three pieces. Ruined plate, ruined jug. Well at least the soup is okay.
And in other news, I managed to convince myself to but apples instead of candy in the grocery store. While my depression screamed JUST GIVE UP AND GET THE FKN CANDY YOU MORON. But I got apples so. Hooray. Yay. Woo. Hoo.
But soup is good. All hail soup.
2/11 2023
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A gravel update. Again I’m not sure this is actually gravel, what even is gravel amirite. These are small stones. I’ll just call it gravel.
When I got there this morning there was more of it out, as Jeanette had promised. It certainly helps me a lot, the stuff around the gate. It’s also up on the hill now, in the dirt patches between the pavement tiles. In hindsight maybe they should just have put gravel on the whole path from the goat house to the fence and gate, and kept the pavement tiles stacked inside. It isn’t exactly the best looking setup now, with the white gravel between the dark (when it’s muddy and wet) pavement blocks. But the goats seem to appreciate it, they go out even though it’s wet and muddy.
Later on I asked Jeanette if she happened to have more of the gravel. She said she in fact had another sacj, So I suggested putting some at the gap in the fence between the small and big pen. As you can see in the lowest right picture. There was a lot of mud and water there, the other day I slipped but managed to not fall on it. And it’s right where the goats need to walk to get into the bigger pen, so I think it’ll be good to have it there. Could use another sackful even. But I think it helps.
2/11 2023
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Here is a new occurence. Bella jumping up on my lap. She’s gone on my legs when we’re sitting on the bench together, but actually jumping up on my legs when I’m sitting in the chair, I can’t remember the last time she did that. Luna does ita ll the time. Bella is considerably heavier. So it isn’t really comfortable for either of us, she’ll wobble around for a bit before jumping off. Can’t say no to goats though.
2/11 2023
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Butt what?
3/11 2023
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My depression has been pretty heavy today, but here’s a goat photo to turn that frown upside down.
3/11 2023
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Rise and shine.
4/11 2023
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Not feeling great, but I managed to get on the exercise bike. Pushing yourself physically feels good when you’re not doing well mentally, I find. Added some time and resistance, felt good. I have lost a little bit of weight since I started exercising, but not enough to be sure it’s not just random statistical anomaly. But it’s a start.
Now if you’ ll excuse me, I’m going to go picking apples.
4/11 2023
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Sometimes, late at night, I stare into the bathroom mirror and think to myself… “I should really turn on the light, I can’t see sht”
5/11 2023
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goatlog
5/11 2023
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I goatchu Sky.
5/11 2023
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That’s all for now.