Pain In The Everything
Good goat times today. We’ve had a lot of rain, but it was mostly dry while I was out. Temps just above freezing. Not too bad. But I wouldn’t mind if Spring would get here soon.
I think there may have been some other heat going on. Sky was quite chatty, some big bleating sessions without any prompting. And Luna was going little grunts and wagging her tail a lot. Oh girls. Part of me wishes we could bring in a buck to visit so we could have goat babies. But it’s better we don’t breed them.
Last year Jeanette mentioned a couple of times that if things were going well we might consider bringing in a new baby sometime in the summer, I guess. Adopting one. I do miss having goat babies. I miss the little darlingboer babies. But I don’t miss the pain of having to say goodbye to them. Sigh.
But a good day today, lots of running around arnd bleating and treats and such.
19/2 2024
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The bleating Sky.
19/2 2024
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By the way, I’m trying not to talk about poltics on here, not for your sake but for my own. I just feel like though that it’s hard not to comment on Trump basically encouraging Russia to ‘do whatever the hell they want’ in regards to nato. I’ve sometimes been asked by Americans why I care about American politics, basically insinuating I should mind my own business. Well, you know. I live in a country where people are now starting to actually ask if we should actually be preparing for actual war. Like seriously actually. Now i’m not walking around scared of an imminent invasion, I’m not stockpiling cans of baked beans and toilet paper for a World War III scenario. But it’s still really weird hearing someone running for President in America basically inviting Putin to fuck up Europe. In between the rape cases.
Yeah yeah. American politics are world politics, there’s no getting around that.
We got a tiny country like Denmark apparently sending our antire artillary to Ukraine, while America sends a hasbeen X talkshow host to orally pleasure Putin. Fucking bizarre.
We all know that there’s no reason to be a good samaritan for free. Do it as a loan. Jesus would be proud. Love thy neighbour, if he can afford you.
I could go on and on and on. But I’ll cut. It. Out. Happy Presidents Day. Don’t mention the slavery, I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it.
19/2 2024
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How about those goats, tho? I sure love goats.
19/2 2024
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Good exercising time today. Made it an hour and a half on the bike. Wazzaaap. Sore legs and butt, but feels good. Keeping at it, best I can.
Yesterday I took two CBD capsules on the goat trip. Not sure if it made a difference. It’s hard to tell with all the factors. My back felt worse than last trip, but better than the one before that. I will try 3 capsules next time, and try taking them in the morning before I head out to give them more time to work. And we’ll see. Continuing the milder back stretches. At least I feel more functioning in general and slowly improving my shape. Better than if it was worse, am I right.
20/2 2024
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If you bought Trump shoes then you’re never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
20/2 2024
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Luna eclipse of the Sky.
20/2 2024
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Sky on lookout duty. A dog walked by on the path outside the playground and it was barking a lot and of course the goats all huddled up and were looking with much concern in the direction of the barking. After the kids relaxed Sky stayed on high alert for a while. She’s always very sensitive to danger signals. I wish she didn’t worry so much.
20/2 2024
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Don’t stand so don’t stand so
21/2 2024
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Depressed, headachey, tired. Those have been the moods for today. Not the best of days. But hey there’s another one coming tomorrow, so I got that going for me.
21/2 2024
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In other news, I looked Sasha Mitchell up on the youtubes, and found a couple of fun videos. They’re like 10 years old, but that’s still what 20 years after he played Cody on Step By Step. His voice has gotten so deep! it’s crazy. Sounds like he’s been chain smoking for those 20 years. But the funny thing is that you can still see Cody mannerisms in him. His laugh, his dude. It’s like seeing an old Codeman. Weird and strangely endearing.
Speaking of Step By Step, I’m into season 7 in my rewatch, and it’s rough going. Season 6 was weird. Episodes airing out of order. It starts with Cody just being gone without an explanation and some weird French guy just being there in his place, no introduction. Now I love Bronson Pinot and I think back in the day I kinda liked Jean-Luc Rieupeyroux. But that was back before I knew what was going on and what had happened. Now with the knowledge it’s hard not to dislike the character. And then suddenly in the final episode of that season you get a ‘phone call’ from Cody saying he’s got a new job in Russia and then you get the introduction of Jean-Luc. Why would they air the season premiere as the season finale?! Weird. And there are other times when it’s clearly out of order, like when JT’s girlfriend Sam shows up in the end credits of an episode saying something like “ever since I started dating JT blabla” and then in the next episode she shows up and meets JT for the first time. And there’s one episode where Rich is trying to get with some girl even though by the point he had started dating Dana. What a mess. And then in season 7 it seems like Jean-Luc has disappeared, I guess he was only there for one season. If this season is airing out of order too maybe the final episode will have him saying goodbye.
I just miss Cody. Cody is awesome.
Step By Step really is a comfort show for me. That and Full House aired every day over and over year after year on the local Aarhus TV channel. Once they finished a runthrough they’d just start over from episode one. Over and over. And when a new season arrived then thatød air and go into the rotation over and over. It’s funny, back then in Denmark there wasn’t really a concept of ‘seasons’. In America it’s Season 1 Episode 3. In Denmark it’s just episode 3. And when you get into season 2, it’s not S2E1 it’s Episode 25 (Assuming 24 episodes in a season”. And in the tv listings and everywhere it would be put as Kaos I Familien (25;48). Yes, that was the Danish title. Chaos in the family. Full House was called Hænderne Fulde, hands full. Anyway, they’d list the episode number and then the total number of episodes and you’d only know a new season was beginning when the number of total episodes had gone up. Otherwise you wouldn’t know it was a season premiere or finale.
But as a troubled kid, those milquetoast family sitcoms were like a safe space. Once I got a tv in my own room I had family and friends there.
Sigh. Anyway, sorry about the ramble. I just wanted to distract myself from reality. And Step By Step has always been good for that. Dude.
21/2 2024
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Good goat times today. Managed to drag myself out. Not feeling great, but great to be with the goats. The usual jolly hijinx. Headbutting and running around. Bella tried headbutting Luna off my lap, just managed to knock her into me. Good thing she’s soft. Sweet visitors too, petting and feeding the goats.
Unfortunately I’ve been in pretty bad pain, my back really bad again. I tried taking 3 CBD capsules, but it did not seem to do any good. I’ll keep trying with them. Take them even earlier before going out. Combine them with the regular painkillers. More back stretches. Hopefully things will improve.
22/2 2024
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Hey look who joined us today! Jeanette let the feathers out for a bit. They’ve been cooped up because of the fox and apparently they had an outbreak of blood mites. It was nice to have them with us again today.
22/2 2024
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I dragged the bench back to the front of the pen, in front of the mountain. I just like having it closer to us, and hopefully we’ll start getting some sun soon so I can see if the sunshine will hit the bench here now. Bella was running along, trying to get ready to jump up on the bench everytime I’d dragged it a bit of the way. And when the bench was in place, she was ready for a treat as a thank you for her invaluable help.
22/2 2024
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Say what you will about Jon Stewart, but he still calls it Twitter, so I’m onboard. If you want me to not respect you, call it X. I dare you.
22/2 2024
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What what, chicken butts.
23/2 2024
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The Bella loaf is snug as a bug in rug.
23/2 2024
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Fun with the goats. If you listen carefully you can hear Luna grunting little grunts. This was the day when she was acting like she was in heat. She’s doing lots of jumping, it really seems like she realised that it amuses me and she’s just doing it more and more. I do a false running start and she’ll jump up to go, and then stop to wait for me to catch up. And I love when Sky comes running with us instead of standing on the hill and watching. Helps when the ground is a little drier.
24/2 2024
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goatlog
24/2 2024
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It’s 9 pm and I don’t even know what that machine the upstairs neighbours are using is. But the vibrations are running up my spine.
24/2 2024
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For the premium subscribers, a preview of a future video. Once I had moved the bench back, I wanted to sit down and have some quiet goat time on there. Well, you know best laid plans and goats and all. For once it wasn’t Bella messing with the camera, maybe because it wasn’t on the tripod. I put it on the little spool thing. And twice Luna went after it, first time I managed to get to it in time, second time she knocked it off and it turned off, but thankfully it was ok.
25/2 2024
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Sky and Luna, twinning.
25/2 2024
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That’s all for now.