Bleeding The Orchid
There are new arrivals at the playground. Allow me to introduce… the geeselings.
So that’s why one of the geezers had been sitting there in the corner for so long.
What are baby geese called? Apart from “cute”, I mean. Geeselings will sufice I guess.
Sweet, little things.
Just like the lambs.
That’s Mini whose chin I am scratching in the above picture. She is actually starting to look quite big now. I’m not sure if it’s because the others are growing more slowly or if she is growing faster. Or maybe I am just seeing things. I think she’s catching up to Dotty, the boys are still visibly bigger.
Mads with a mouthful. Terribly impolite of me to take pictures of them while they’re chewing their food. Damn plumerazzis, always lurking in the bushes with their cameras.
I think he forgave me.
Sweet Mads, doesn’t hold a grudge. Relaxing in the warmth. It’s been a couple of very warm days. Not in the good way. No sunshine, no wind. Just oppressive, humid air. Not nice at all. Especially at night. But yesterday we had thunder and rain and that seems to have loosened up the air again.
Magnethe, also relaxing.
Vanilje coming towards me. This looks like a very typical situation. Mads has stepped away from me for a moment and immediately Vanilje comes to me, even if she was in the middle of eating delicious hay. Sometimes she’ll have to go in a sort of half-circle if Mads is between us. It happens a lot when people come by the fence, then Mads runs up to the fence to see if there is any food to be had. And then the two others run to me to see if I have treats for them. If I do have treats for them and Mads spots it then he comes running to me. And then the two others run up to whoever is at the fence. Yes, there is a lot of running around some times.
And then sometimes there is just quiet sitting. All three goats in that picture. Plus my knee.
Other than that, not a lot going on. TMU is closed tomorrow. I’m not sure why, but it means I get the day off so I shan’t complain. There are a couple of off-days next week too. Along with my usual Wednesday. So I’m living the easy life.
Oh, here’s a funny thing. A couple of weeks ago I was sitting in the TMU coffee room with a couple of the others. A girl was reading horoscopes. She read me mine. It said something about “an old bill that you thought you had paid will come back to haunt you”. We all had a good laugh about that. Then about a week later I get a letter from the Danish postal service. I had previously received a letter that didn’t have enough postage on it, so I had to pay the fee to get it. I got my mum to pay it over her netbank. But the letter from the postal service said that I hadn’t paid the bill. Spooky eh? I still haven’t gotten that resolved, but it’s only 20 kroners which is next to nothing. So it’s not exactly haunting me. And I think the timing was off by about a week, in respect to the horoscope. But still. It makes you think, doesn’t it?
Stop that! Thinking never leads to anything good!
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Current music: The Smashing Pumpkins – For God and Country (070526)
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May 30th, 2007 at 23:02
Gosling.
Lovely pics as always :)
May 30th, 2007 at 23:07
Stu – D’oh! I knew that.
May 30th, 2007 at 23:47
“Pappa, where is the food?”
“Right here.”
“Pappa, where is Plume?”
“Right there.”
“Oh, good. That makes me feel better.”
May 31st, 2007 at 2:29
Hay Plume, hay Luis, hay Stu!
Gosling trivia: Baby geese are so fluffy and fuzzy that they can’t sink. They are very bouyant and float. If you held one underwater for a second and released it, it would pop up to the surface. Mother Nature’s way of taking care of baby ducks so they don’t drown. (Warning: do not try this at home!)
“Mother Goose, what are you doing sitting in the corner all the time?” “I’m hatching my baby goslings (who float like Ivory soap), Curious Debster.” “What else do you want to know?” “Nothing, Mother Goose,” replied Curious Debster.
May 31st, 2007 at 23:56
Hi Plume, hi you guys! :)))
Looking cute in the pictures and those geeselings are so precious! I enjoy your pictures so much, they brighten up my day, there’s this special good and relaxed vibe about ’em :) Eye candy! now what would we do without our furry friends? they make life so much brighter :) my dog got a new haircut a couple of days ago (meaning she was pretty much shaved because of the heat we get out here now) & she no longer looks like a mix of a black bear/lamb. I can’t wait for winter when my soft and furry Terri will be back :)
Uh-oh, congratulations on the comeback of the Pumpkins, thatsh great news. and once again, I gotta thank you for helping me discover Tina Dico. she is so awesome, such an inspiration! and Terra Naomi is a gem! :)
hey, have you heard Jonathan Coulton or The Gabe Dixon Band? I think there’s a good chance you’d like ’em :)
And the horoscopes… I believe in them in a way, that is, I believe that you can sometimes find good advice in ’em, that you can either choose to follow or not, but that they are not some kind of a 100% true prediction of the future & what one must or musn’t do. there are a lot of things that influence people in one way or another, I’m pretty sure the solar system also has it’s say, but it’s a way of interpretation that matters :) whenever I read my horoscope and it says ‘you better keep your mouth shut today’, I laugh but also think in certain situations ‘right on, right on’ :) I often check out the stand up astrologer on youtube and read monthly horoscopes on astrologyzone.com, because I find that to be good entertainment :)
Plume, I think I should’ve written you an e-mail :) pardon my 10 mile comment ;)
HUGSSS!!!
June 1st, 2007 at 0:00
p.s. I like ‘geeseling’ better :) viva la Plume creation!
June 1st, 2007 at 4:05
I was going shopping one day when I stopped at a Chinese restaurant for lunch. My fortune cookie said “a book was in my future”. Guess where I was planning to shop? That’s right . . . a bookstore! That was the whole reason for my shopping trip as I was looking for a certain book. Spooky!
Today I saw: 10 cottontail rabbits, 6 squirrels, 1 wild turkey, several ostriches, 1 mink, a pair of Canda geese with geeselings, hundreds of goatzies, horses, snakes, sheeps, deer, cattles, piggers, 1 Big Blue Heron, and assorted songbirds too numerous to mention. It was a busy day to look for animals.
June 1st, 2007 at 20:49
Luis Lemmings – I keep a watchful eye on my little ones.
Debster – Hay hay hay Olé! I missed seeing the geeseling goslings swim today. I don’t know if they did any pop-upping. But I’m told they loved the water so that’s good. It must be nice for mother goose to get out and about again.
Hmm, I wonder if astrology has a privacy policy? It’s scary what they know of us!
At first I thought you had seen 10 “coctail” rabbits! I wondered what that was, until I doublechecked. I don’t know if cottontail rabbits like cocktails. You sure did see a lot of animals. I’d like to do some animal spotting. Sounds more fun than train spotting. How come you saw such many animals? Where they parading past your house in honour of the first day of summer? In Denmark June 01 is the first day of summer. I should celebrate.
Milla – Hay hay Milla! I am glad you feel that way about my pictures. The animals make me feel good and relaxed, so I’m happy if that comes across to others as well!
Poor Terri, she must be wondering where she left her winter coat! I guess it’s better than sweating in the heat though. I should know, I have a bad habit of keeping my coat on even in summer. Today I took it off!
I’m glad you have liked the music as well. I haven’t heard Jonathan Coulton or The Gabe Dixon Band, but I shall see if I can find some tasters. Maybe the horoscopes can point me in the right direction!
As long as you keep writing long comments then all is well in the solar system!
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:07
Hmmm, cocktail rabbits . . . maybe a wine cooler rabbit or a beer rabbit, but never seen a cocktail rabbit! (hee, hee)
We were wondering the same thing about why we were seeing so many animals. Only saw 2 itty bitty bunnies, 2 medium bunnies, and 1 large bunny today. We know where all the interesting animals live in our area.
We saw a pasture-full of mares and their baby foals over the weekend. Last count of baby horsies was at “70”. That’s a lot of baby foals. I think they have about 30 more mares that are still preggers!
June 2nd, 2007 at 22:58
Debster – 70 foals! And here I am without a single one like a sucker. The pasture is always greener on the other side!