Shedding
Good goat times today. A lovely day with lots of sun. Not quite summery temperatures, but up there.
We had a bunch of sweet visitors, several groups of kids coming in and petting the goats. Luna has been behaving well again, so that’s good. Now Sky has gone back to being “the little one”. I’m not sure if Luna is actually bigger than Sky, certainly Sky is still wider. As one kid remarked “she’s the little one, but she’s fat!”. Ruude! Haha. Sky still taking a hike when Bella comes near. It’s sad. But i’m making sure she’s getting lots of time with me. I used the waterbottle on Bella to get her to stay away and not chase Sky. Bella seemed mostly just mystified. How is it raining out of the human’s hands?! I felt bad about it, but I’m just doing my best to keep them all as happy as possible.
Gonna get me some soup now.
16/9 2024
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Relax
16/9 2024
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I got a new jacket today.
It’s the same as the old jacket, just a size L instead of a size XXL.
Now, as I have mentioned with t-shirts before, I prefer my clothes oversized. So XXL was probably way too big from the start. The sleeves certainly were comically too long. The sleeves on the new jacket are fitting much more appropriately. I would like the jacket itself to be a bit longer, I just prefer bigger size. But on paper at least it sounds cool to have gone from an XXL to an L.
Unfortunately I probably can’t get my pants in a smaller size. I remember when they greyish pair I had finally gave up and fell apart. There was no way to find them anymore, and I need all the pockets they have. I’ll have to stick with the black pair I have, even though it’s way too big in the gut width now. Used to be tight, now I gotta snap the belt on tight.
I might try to see if I can find a new winter coat in appropriate size. But eh, because of my bad circulation I have to war 17 layers of clothes in the winter, once I’m wearing a shirt a blouse and a sweater I’ll be bulked up anyway.
I’m glad I have trained myself to not care about fashion or how I look. I’m still a walking mudpile most days. Goat hair everywhere and berry smell from the shoes. What are ya gonna do.
Hopefully it will still be t-shirt weather for a bit. The new jacket came off when I got to the playground and the sun was doing its thing.
16/9 2024
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The goats were busy working on a bouquet of branches that Jeanette had brought when I got there. Good to see all three of them working on it.
16/9 2024
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Bella cautiously observing me after I used the waterbottle. She didn’t freak out about it, but was more like “I’m not sure what’s going on, but I don’t think I like it”. We made up later with some cuddles and treats. It’s a balancing act, I don’t want her to get scared of me and withdraw, but I need some space with Sky now and then. And more and more Sky is acting like the old days at the old playground, when she’d run away when the bigger goats came near. Even if there isn’t a sign of trouble, just Bella walking over towards us can send her fleeing. But they do all three eat together as shown before with the branches and when I give out cucumber or apple or tomato. It’s more complicated, but doing my best to make everyone happy.
16/9 2024
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goatlog
17/9 2024
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Got an hour forty on the bike today. Go go Ladget. Afterwards I did some cleaning in the apartment. I want to get rid of some of the junk i’ve been piling up. Organize things a bit. I ended up spending a couple of hours on it, barely made a dent. But got several bags of stuff to lug down ot the trash. Feels good to exercise, feels good to do some proactive stuff. Look at me go. GO TO THE BUFFET, amirite.
17/9 2024
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Good goat times today. A very foggy morning. Dense fog advisory. Later on the sun came out for a bit, so that was pretty good.
Still trying to adjust to the new normal. Although things aren’t quite done changing i think. Today I started seeing the signs that Luna may also be overtaking Sky in the hierarchy. Sky did butt heads with her a couple of times. But she also did the complaining bleats at her and a couple of times ran away. And Luna was challenging her quite a bit. I think soon Sky will just be running from both of them. It’s sad to see. It’s sad when I sit down and I look over at Sky looking back at me, and I know she wants to come over to me like she always used to do when I sat down. To get her cuddles. But now she has to look around and judge whether the others are at a safe distance. Man, it sucks. Maybe I’ll start taking her out of the pen to get some alone time. We’ll see. I do still get my cuddle time with Sky when the others are preoccupied.
Funniest bit today was when Jeanette came with a couple of bags of food and took them into the storage room to fill the barrels in there. She closed the door, and Bella and Luna though that was a really bad idea. Bella started bashing her head against the door. Not super hard, but just headbutting at the door because she wanted in. At one point she jumped up and with her hooves she managed to pull down the door handle, but she didn’t manage to pull teh door open. Not for lack of trying. Like me at the pizza place when I get there too early and they aren’t open yet. I just start headbutting the door until they let me in.
18/9 2024
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Around the christmas tree, conversation is lively.
Another bouquet of branches from Jeanette. And good to see all three goats going at it.
18/9 2024
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Got my first ever spam robocall today! I think it’s the first anyway, maybe I’ve just forgotten. I’ve read about people getting them a lot, though. Mostly in Denmark I’ve heard of them coming from “the police”. Mine was from paypal. To inform me that I had purchased 2000 kroners worth of bitcoin. Funny, because my paypal acct isn’t connected to a bank acct and there’s almost nothing left in there, I just sent most of what was left to a charity donation here on fb (polishes my halo). But those bitcoin will be worth a lot some day, I am sure!
In other financial news, today I got my yearly statement from the housing organisation detailing my consumption of electricity, water and heat. I am always terrified that I’m going to get a huge bill, but I always get money back. And this year too. So that’s a relief. I know I can check for myself how much I’ve used, but their site isn’t very accessible so I don’t really keep up with it. I just look at it once a year. So far it has worked out. It’s always nervewracking opening that PDF file and checking the beginning of it where it says if I’m getting money back or have to pay extra.
There was one year, many years ago, when I used so much heat and electricity that they increased my monthy payments to be closer to my actual consumption. Since then I have massively cut back on electrixity and heater use, so now I always get money back. I suppose I could contact them to lower my monthly payments, but honestly I’d rather pay too much each month and then get money back once a year. I feel safer like that. I get so cold that I use a lot of heat and electricity for my space heater, but not as much as back in the day I guess.
Anyway, ask me how much soup I just ate. Okay I tell you. I ate a whole pot full. No waste here.
18/9 2024
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Interesting to see a certain segment being very upset about fact-checkers. Like, “oh can’t you just let me use your platform to spread disinformation without interfering”. Says a lot when you feel like the checking of facts is a problematic thing and fact-checkers are your opponents.
Maybe if you think of them as Bible Integrity Enforcers. They’re just making sure you’re not bearing false witness. Check your signed golden bible, it’s in there somewhere, unless they took it out to make room for casino ads.
18/9 2024
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Goats in the fog. The below part is Sky eating hay. I took some from the hayholder and put it in a box outside so Sky could have some while Bella was hogging the hayholder inside. It’s too bad we had to take the second hayholder down. Maybe I’ll ask Jeanette if we can get it put up again, we just have to make sure it’s in a safe place. But it might be good to have two of them now.
18/9 2024
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Good goat times today. A nice bit of sunshine, with a bit of a cold wind. Not too much happening today. Some sweet visitors. Kids at the fence calling in to the goats. I got them to come over to the fence so the kids could see them up close. Answered some questions.
And then goat diplomacy, trying to get everyone to get along. Somewhat. Doing my best to make sure everyone gets a share of the loving. Used the water bottle on Bella again. She’s starting to recognise it. I didn’t have to actually spray her, I just shook it about and gave it a tiny squeeze, that was enough to make her stay put. Got some good time sitting with Sky. Eventually she went over to get on the platform, and I sat back at the logs with Bella and Luna. I was leaning back on the overturned bench and taking in the sun, I think we were all dozing off a bit. With Bella and Luna napping I could get up and sneak over to Sky and give her some more loving over on the platform. It’s like being a divorced dad running fromone family to the other. Hmm, maybe I don’t know how divorced dads work.
Then home and got an hour twenty on the bike. And then a bit more of the cleaning/reorganizing of the apartment. Busy day!
19/9 2024
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Naptime for the goats. Luna on the tub, Bella on the board, Sky on the platform.
19/9 2024
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Just resting my eyes.
19/9 2024
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I know what you’re thinking. But no, those aren’t clown shoes. I’ve just had a lot of goats stepping on my feet over the years.
19/9 2024
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Hey there’s no food in there! What a ripoff.
20/9 2024
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I think I said I was done with my Twin Peaks rewarch. That’s not quite correct. I’m going through the bonus material too. There’s quite a lot, especially for season 3. It’s fascinating watchinh David Lynch work. He’s so specific with his ideas and direction. You could get the thought that he does a lot of improvising, but when he’s directing the actors he knows exactly what he wants. it’s also fascinating watching him do his art stuff as part of the show. I was reading along on various forums as I watched the seasons and some people were complaining about the special effects in season 3, that they sucked. But it’s very clear that the effects are exactly how David wanted them. Some of the special effets are literally him doing arts and crafts on set. Like when he’s putting the mud mask on Laura Dern so she can remove her face. Just Lynch things.
Anyway, what an amazing work of art Twin Peaks is. Weird scary, inconsisten, wonderful, joyful, sad, happy, beautiful, ugly. Drink full.
20/9 2024
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Sly on the upturned pallet. It’s funny how they’ll just end up standing like that. Even if it’s just an ince above ground, they still gotta stand on it.
20/9 2024
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I tweeted about Richard Kind and it went viral. Well, for me. 35 Likes and 3 retwees in half an hour. Most of my tweet get on average *checks stats* one. One like. If I’m lucky.
I should tweet about Richard Kind more often.
It’s kind of unnerving seeing a bunch of complete strangers react to your post though haha.
20/9 2024
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Three in a row.
21/9 2024
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Got an hour forty on the bike today. Wasn’t feeling too great. Weak legs, tired, aching back. But I put the time an effort in. Started feeling better when I added the arm exercises and intervals, that got the heart rate up and the tiredness away at least.
After that some crunches and contiuing on the cleaning/reorganizing of the apartment.
The bad news is… I lost more weight. New record low. Never seen that range in my adult life. Now it’s about 50 pounds lost since last November. That’s a problem because it means I have to continue dieting. Haha. I’m almost hoping to NOT lose weight, because then it means I’m done. Well not really, of course I’m happy to see the weight go down. I’m just dying to get back to eating bread and other stuff again. But I know that once I go off the diet I will gain some weight, and I just want to see how low I can get before that. It would be a shame to stop now when I have found a rhythm that’s really working for me and giving great results. One more week, at least. Maybe two. If I keep losing weight at the current rate then that would get me to a point where I shouldn’t really try to lose more weight. And if I don’t lose that weight then I can say I have reached the limit of my current capability. Either way I can have bread again.
Today I can has soup.
Oh and by the way, my Richard Kind tweet ended up at 16 retweets and 149 likes. So that was fun.
21/9 2024
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goatlog
22/9 2024
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The royal hoof of Bella.
22/9 2024
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I finished all the Twin Peaks. But I’m not done with Lynch/Frost. Started rewatching their followup to Twin Peaks. On The Air. I have these fever dream memories of watching some of it back in the day, I think I must have downloaded it from some filesharing service, i don’t think it aired in Denmark. It’s so so so weird. It’s basically the weirdness of the weidest Twin Peaks, but in a straith sitcom setting. It’s also, to be honest, really bad at times. But it’s the kind of bad that’s so bad that it’s good. The show is about the making of a tv show and the tv show in the tv show is horrible and it’s almost like meta. But it’s hilarious and weird and very nostalgic for me. And it has Miguel Ferrer playing a tv executive version of the fbi agent he played on Twin Peaks. And I fffkkkn love Miguel Ferrer. Rest in power.
Yeah it takes a certain mindset to enjoy it, but if you like surreal slapstick and lowbrow dumb humour and problematic characters, because it was a different time, but also maybe it’s satirical but they’re making fart noises while playing the saxophone, but yeah, I recommend checking it out. It got cancelled pretty quickly and I think the consesus is that it’s garbage, but damn it makes me laugh. Miguel Ferrer just needs to yell at people.
I also need to watch Lynch’s movies, because weirdly enough I don’t think I have watched any of them. Maybe Lost Highway? I remember parts of it, but I’m not sure I watched the whole thing. Kind of odd being a huge Lynch fan and not having seen his movies hah.
Once I’m done with the whole Lynchverse I’ll get back to the island.
22/9 2024
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That’s all for now.