Arty Farty

September 8th, 2019

Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone.

2/9 2019

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Good goat times today. The temperatures have dropped below 20/68. Summer is over. But we got a lot of sun today, so it still felt pretty good. Got the goats out and we went into the gap between the horse fence and the trees along the path down past the goat pen. A nice little tight space, which suited me because I wasn’t feeling super great. So it was nice that I didn’t have to chase the goats around everywhere. And they got their fill of greens. Plus we got to say hi to the horses. I forgot how farty they are. One of them farted raelly loudly and I turned my head and there Mia popped out of the underbrush with a comically startled face. Haha. I wish I’d had the camera rolling.
Then into the pen to relax. Super sweet time with Mia on the bench. I think she may have taken a little nap. I was craddling her head in my arms and felt it get heavier and heavier while I sat and listened to her little snorry sounds. Perfect bliss.
2/9 2019

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Farty McHorseface wants some greens too.

2/9 2019

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Sassy’s got a mouthful

2/9 2019

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I fell asleep in my comfy chair for a couple of hours. Napping like a goat in the sunshine. I guess I’m staying up now then… my sleep schedule is crazier than a presidential twitter feed.
3/9 2019

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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi Day everyone.

3/9 2019

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It really dubi dubi dubi like that sometimes

3/9 2019

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Snuggler’s paradise

3/9 2019

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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.

4/9 2019

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Feels like running out of road
4/9 2019

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Goat thoughts, with Lily and Nuller.

4/9 2019

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Here’s a fun little goat thing. The way Sky was moving reminded me of the Littla Man From Another Place dancing on Twin Peaks. So I had to put some TP music on it. Audrey’s Dance fitted really well, unfortunately Facebook blocked the upload though. So I had to redo it with a slowed down version of the son. The original was a bit better, but it still amuses me.
Oh and thef first time I posted the original video, a few days ago, I think I said it was Milo. Goes to show that even I get them mixed up now and then. Easiest way to tell it’s Sky is that she doesn’t have a beard.
The goats are not what they seem
link: Sky dance video
4/9 2019

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Medium and Large when they were tiny, from 2013.

5/9 2019

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Good goat times today. A cool and grey morning. We got some sun along the day, which was nice. Then it started raining as I walked home. Ah weather, you’re so weathery.
Out in the greens and around the yard with the goaties. Nelly came out with some of her kindergarteners. That’s always fun. Nelly’s great with the goats. Bringing down branches so they can eat the leaves, and jumping up at her. With kids running around screaming, half joy halt terror. Nelly promising to protenct them from “the evil one”. Haha. I don’t like to foster the stereotype of goats being satanic, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those kids think Milo is a little devil.
And then relaxing in the pen with the goats finding their favourite spaces. Milo often goes for the bench. The newbies almos always in the goat house. Sky and Mia trying to decide who gets the Sky-sized platform. Buncha sweeties.
5/9 2019

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Here’s Nelly and the kids helping out the goats

5/9 2019

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Another one of Nelly and the kids, goats and otherwise

5/9 2019

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Speaking of Audrey’s Dance, it’s easy to forget how amazing the Twin Peaks music is.
Lol no it’s not. Twin Peaks was gone for 25 years and never did I once forget how great the Twin Peaks music is. All those years, that music stayed with me. So beautiful, so haunting. Some of the songs just break my heart every single time I listen to them. And some of them scare the living daylights out of me.
If you ever want to murder me and get away with it (rip Columbo), just sneak into my bedroom at night and put on the Twin Peaks soundtrack on repeat. Not even loudly. Just quietly. so it seeps into my dreams. If I don’t heave a heart attack in my sleep I’ll have one when I wake up and hear it playing in my bedroom.
It’s perfect, beautiful, amazing music. And it’s intertwined in my head with weird, wonderful images, characters, stories, palces, coffee, pie, owls, trees, logs, e lec tri ci tee. Twin Peaks is an uneven journey, but it’s fucking amazing and I love it. And these days, when I purposefully stay in bed for 20 hours to cultivate dreams, it speaks to me even more.
Are we falling?

5/9 2019

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Popcorn from 2015.

6/9 2019

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It’s always funny trying to pick out a thumbnail when making goat videos. I especially enjoy trying to pick out the silliest frames in the tomato time videos. Mia with a mouthful of tomato never gets old.

6/9 2019

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I will never forgive the American voters for the fact that I know who Eric is.
7/9 2019

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Goat mugging

7/9 2019

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Magnethe from 2009.

7/9 2019

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Milo likes to sit on the bench. But when uncle sits on the bench then Mia demands to be with him. So this photo is Milo in the process of getting up and out the way before Mia forces the issue. Pick your fights, and uncle’s pockets, Milo.

7/9 2019

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And here’s my next profile pic for a dating site.

7/9 2019

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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.

8/9 2019

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I am not feeling super great mentally. So if I’m being more quiet than usual that’s why. Or if I’m being louder than usual that’s why. Or if I’m being the exact same as always that’s why.
I’ll try to get back on goat track.
8/9 2019

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Think Lily thoughts.

8/9 2019

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Why do treats suddenly appear, every time you are near?

8/9 2019

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goats on the hill

8/9 2019

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That’s all for now.


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The Goat In The Machine

September 1st, 2019


26/8 2019

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Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone.

26/8 2019

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Good goat times today. A lovely, hot day. Yes, summer is back. So much that I dearly regretted not bringing my iced bottle of drinik. The walk home was a little rough. Luckily I could drink from the tap while refilling the goat buckets a couple of times. So I did stay hydrated. Just would have been nice to have something to drink on the walk. But I survived, heroically.
They’re still working outside the goat pen. Machines machining loudly. Maybe that’s why there were no goats in sight. Eventually I was spotted and the bleaters came greeting. I still couldn’t see Mia. Then there she came, wiggling out from under the goat house. Haha. Don’t know if she had retreated there to get away from the machines, or just to stay cool. Later on, after we’d had our greens and had been running around in the sun, we relaxed in the pen. And eventually Mia went back under the goat house. Sitting there with Milo and Sky. There’s just something hilarious about humans working hard to erect a fancy goat house. And the goats deciding to camp out beneath it. That’s so goat. It’s nice and cool underneath it, I think that’s the main attraction on a day like today.
I heard the workers talking about putting up swings. I think they’re making stuff for the human kids. Which is good for the human kids. I’d personally prefer not to have the commotion. Of the building, and then later on from kids. Having kids playing right outside the pen, eh I’d rather not have that. But ok. Nothing to do about it. hopefully we’ll still be able to go out to the kindergarten fence when the work is all done.
26/8 2019

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Well, Mia does seem to like a tight fit when she sits. Grandma used to like sitting under the house too. She was usually the first to head there when it was hot.

26/8 2019

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Sassy went into hiding when one of the machines starting making loud noises. Don’t worry, girl, we can’t see you there.

26/8 2019

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yeah it’s been a while

26/8 2019

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It’s been a ‘keep refilling the water bucket’ kind of day.
Now I’m going to go to bed and sweat it into dreamland. Maybe there’s another me in there.

26/8 2019

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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi Day everyone.

27/8 2019

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Outside, the rolling thunder. Thor is out riding the skies.
27/8 2019

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I wish there was a volume slider on weather. I’d love to turn up the thunder and rain.
27/8 2019

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goatlog

27/8 2019

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John Carpenter liked one of my tweets.
He’s only got 3 followers, but I see no reason to look into it any further. Just happy John Carpenter is a fan.
27/8 2019

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When you’re a goat and you just want to eat the world

28/8 2019

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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.

28/8 2019

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Sweet lil Lily

28/8 2019

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Peanut from 2015.

29/8 2019

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Struggling a little recently. Balancing on the edge. Trying not to flail. But you know. We do, we do. We gotta keep do. It’s not the end of the world, he screamed at the Vogons.
29/8 2019

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Clark and grandma from 2014.

30/8 2019

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Good goat times today. A lovely, warm day. Looks like we got a couple more days above 20C/68F then it’s done. Heading into September and summer is over.
Enjoyed it today. Lots of visitors. First off a little daycare group I think. They were fought off by the savage beast. At least that’s how Milo tells the story. Later on a mother with two super sweet little kids, a boy and a girl. They petted the goats. And the mugshots have had an effect. The mother knew at least Mia’s name, and that there was a couple called Milo and Sky too… They were really nice. A woman came by with a bag of apples for the goats too. Seemed like they might have been from her own garden. Very nice. Eventually Mia went back to sit under the goat house. No machines working this time, so I guess it was just for the cool shade and tight fit.
30/8 2019

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Looks like the workers have cleared the bushes and trees along the kindergarten fence. That’s too bad, that was the goats’ favourite place to go right when I let them out of the pen, and then the kindergarteners could stand and pet them through the fence. Of well. I hope they’ll grow grass when they’re done at least. And leave the trees on the left alone.

30/8 2019

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I bought proper orange juice today. I haven’t had good oj in I don’t know how long. The taste reminds me of.. something I can’t remember. Mornings. Hospital? Juice boxes. School. I don’t know. It’s funny how taste etc
30/8 2019

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I think I found a new profile picture for my dating site!

30/8 2019

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Okay, time to shut down the devices. See you under the house.

30/8 2019

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Mads from 2005.

31/8 2019

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It’s Saturday night and I have big plans.
Pepsi, fries and tears. Dont wait up, grandpa.
31/8 2019

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A helping hoof

31/8 2019

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Another mass shooting, 17 months old baby shot in the face but who cares as long as it’s not abortion, artificially grown brain cells create same kind of brain waves as fetuses so I guess the scientists will be charged with murder if they throw the cells out, Trump gets hourly updates on the hurricane while out golfing (I don’t know how much of that is true or not, because I can’t tell the difference between The Onion and Real Life but feel free to fact check me). Hey, maybe if you build the walls high enough they’ll keep out the hurricanes too!
CLIFF
1/9 2019

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Goat thoughts

1/9 2019

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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.

1/9 2019

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It’s Sunday, and I have big plans. Oh wait, i’m out of fries. Nevermind.
1/9 2019

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What if the dinosaurs didn’t go extinct but are just hiding under our beds?
1/9 2019

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It’s a me, Milo.

1/9 2019

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I think the horses must have been in the goat pen. Otherwise those are some supersized goat berries.

1/9 2019

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Newbie hangout

1/9 2019

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I’m with Goat ->

1/9 2019

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That’s all for now.


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