Good goat times today. A rainy day. Massive rains overnight, but by the time I got out it was fairly light. But a day to spend indoors. Which was a lot more complicated than usual because of the new power dynamic.
Yes, if I was hoping that evens on Thursday were just a one time thing, well that hope was shattered. it’s very clear that Sky is retreating from Bella now. It’s hard for them to be in the same space, to the point that Sky would go out in the rain to get away from her. It’s a sad development. But it’s very clear now.
When I put out breakfast, Bella was eating from a bowl in the doorway and Sky was behind her and didn’t even dare go past her to get to the other breakfast bowls. I had to open up the door more to make mor space so she could go by.
What really makes me sad is when I sit down on the yellow chair. That was always, ALWAYS, Sky’s signal to walk over and stand next to me so I could scratch her. But now, she will look to see if Bella is there first. If Bella is there then she won’t come over. She’ll just stand and look at us. And if Bella isn’t there and we get a good scratching session going.. it gets interrupted if Bella comes over. Then Sky complains and withdraws. It’s making it all a lot harder to get good time with them all. If I sit down with Sky then unless Bella is preoccupied then she’ll come over too, because she loes attention too. And then Sky will get up to go. Hopefully it’ll be a little easier in better weather when we can go outside and there’s more space to share. In tighter quarters it’s not easy. But I did make sure to spend lots of time with Sky. While Bella was attacking the hay rack. Lots of attention and treats for Sky, that’s my mission now.
Sigh. It’s not a complete disaster. When I was handing out an apple and cucumber, Sky did come over to eat from my hand while Bella was there. And later on Sky had sat down and Bella sat down pretty near and they were sitting down like that okay. Hopefully when there isn’t competition for my attention or food they can still get along okay. I hope Sky doesn’t get blocked out at night or in heavier rains, if Bella is in the entrance. It makes me sad, but we just have to adjust. I got some good lapgoat time with Luna too. Bella will chase Luna away sometimes too. But Luna is only scared of her when they engange in a fight, if they’re relaxed then Luna isn’t scared. Sky on the other hand just doesn’t want to be near Bella, even if they’re not fighting.
Oh boy.
Yeah, the summer is over in more ways tahn one. We had one week of really lovely hot weather in September, but now it’s raining and the forecast shows lower temps ahead.
At least it’s soup weather, I’ll have some of that.
9/9 2024
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Hey, look who remembered his rain jacket!
Okay, I may not have a future as a male model. But at least I got a cute date, Red Sonja!

9/9 2024
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Here’s Bella and Sky sitting pretty close, so it is possible after all.

9/9 2024
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Here’s the flipside of the coin, Sky standing outside in the light rain because Bella is the way next to me.

9/9 2024
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Aw. Rest in peace James Earl Jones. He was much more than the voice of Darth Vader of course. But he was also the voice of Darth Vader. What a legend.
9/9 2024
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10/9 2024
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This is a bit of a sad video, wasn’t sure if I should post it. But I want to show what’s going on and all. Here’s Sky retreating from cuddles when Bella comes over. I am making sure she is getting lots of loving still.
10/9 2024
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Got an hour forty on the bike today. Calf seemed to hold up okay. At least no sharp pains this time. My butt on the other hand was very sore, made it harder to endure. I got some kind of bruise on my inner thigh/groin, right where the seat hits. Even with the memory foam seat it wasn’t great. But I gotter done.
Got a pepsi & protein delivery today too. Doing some Skyr again. After careful evaluation of my options on teh delivery site, there’s a brand of Skyr that seems to offere the best combination of lots of protein, no fat, almost no carbs or sugar. So i’m trying that for a bit along with the stricter diet again, just to see how that goes and what results I get. So far so good.
10/9 2024
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party killing except then I’m your enemy

10/9 2024
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Good goat times today. Cold and grey morning. But the sun did come out later on and made it a bit better. No doubt summer is over though. The seasons change, as with the goats. it’s difficult to adjust to the new normal. The goat place is my happy place and it’s tough to have conflict and sadness there. Not that it’s not making me happy. It’s still wonderful to be with them. It’s just hard seeing Sky taken down a notch.
I had a little chat with Jeanette about it, just to let them know what’s going on and to give Sky some extra space and consideration if they can. I told her I was doing my best to give Sky all the loving she deserves, and she said “we couldn’t make it work without”. I doubt that, but it’s nice to feel appreciated. And it’s nice to be able to do good things for the goats, especially my Sky girl.
I mentioned I might bring the water bottle and see if maybe I can discipline Bella a little. It just feels wrong to essentially punish Bella for just being a goat and doing goat things. But Sky just means the world to me, and I want to be able to sit with her without constantly fending off Bella. So I might try the water bottle. I don’t know if it’ll do any good. The problem is Sky’s instinct is to run. Even if Bella doesn’t headbutt her, Sky will still want to run from her. And I can’t keep Bella away from me all the time, that wouldn’t be fair either. Well we’ll see how it goes.
At one point I was sitting with Sky on the plywood board. Bella came over to us, I managed to sort of rediract her away. She contined on to the platform beyond. Then Luna went over to that platform, but Bella knocked her down a few times, so Luna went over to the other platform. Maybe Luna’s getting tired of Bella’s domineering too. But it just felt sort of symbolic sitting there with the three of them all apart. Luna on one platform, Bella on the other, Sky with me on the board. Will I ever be able to just sit down with all 3 of the together again?
Well, I am sure I will. But it’s a lot more tricky now. And it’s not helping my mood to have this strife. But I’m still thankful for my goat family, the whole lot of them.
And the feathers. I may have created a monter with Red Sonja though. I let her peck a couple of peanuts out of my hand. Now she’s got the idea, and she tries to peck at my hands sometimes , but she doesn’t seem to be able to tell if they’re empty or not! I got my finger pecked once while holding my hand out, I think to Sky. Oh dear. Might have to start wearing metal gloves. She’s so funny though, Red Sonja. Total litlte feathered goat.
11/9 2024
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Jeanette brought a bouquet of fresh branches. Good to see all three goats working at it together.

11/9 2024
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Loving Sky as much as humanly possible.

11/9 2024
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Is it your dream or is it the parasite’s dream?
11/9 2024
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Here’s what I was talking about earlier. Sky on the plywood board, where I was sitting with her. Bella over on the rightside platform, Luna over on the leftside. Divided we fall. Well, when we get into the cold and wet season they probably won’t be spending much time on the platforms anyway. I think that’s how it went last winter. Although now that the ‘kids’ are grown up maybe it’ll be different this winter. We’ll see. I hope we’ll still get some united we sit time.

11/9 2024
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Good goat times today. A cool morning, but the sun came out and it turned into quite a lovely day, almost summery feels. Lots of visitors, Jeanette started up the campfire and I think they made popcorn. Nice. The sweet little girl with impaired vision was back. She was outside the fence but wanted to pet the goats. I got Bella to come over, and was holding a peanut in my closed and so Bella could jump up against the fence and was sniffing at it and trying to get at it, while the girl could pet her. She’s really sweet, the girl. Seems to like the goats a lot.
One of the adults came over and asked me for the address of the facebook page. He wanted to show it to the other kids at the school they come from. So that’s fun. I guess the kids they take over to visit us have been telling the other kids about it all, I imagine.
Spent lots of time with Sky again, making sure she felt the love. At breakfast time even Luna was tying to take her breakfast bowl. Sheesh. I was using the water bottle to keep her and Bella away, to let Sky get her. It’s not like she’s starving, at all. But I don’t hope Luna will start getting bossy with her too. She butted heads with Luna a few times, and even once with Bella. That’s good. Stand up to her! But mostly, just running away and complaining. Sigh.
Got home and did an hour and a half on the bike. So that’s a full day. Time to relax now.
12/9 2024
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Obligatory loving Sky pic.

12/9 2024
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I always feel like the Chris Farley dancing next to Patrick Swayzee.
my snl oldwatch is up to the Farley years. Love seeing him again. I think my first times watching snl was when Farley was on. But I remember it being with David Spave and Adam Sandler and Rob Scneider… must be later on, these episodes are with Dana Carvey and Mike Myers and that gang. Phil Hartman sigh.
12/9 2024
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when the pain is gone, then your work is done, at last

12/9 2024
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It was a beautiful day in the goathood.

12/9 2024
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goatlog

13/9 2024
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You know me, I don’t like to be all political. I’d just like to ask, would it be okay to eat a dog that was behaving badly? Or do you have to throw the body away once you’ve dragged it out to the gravel pit and shot at it until it died?
I don’t mean to be all cynical, but maybe the steep grocery prices would be less of a problem if you ate the bad dogs instead of just leaving them in the gravel pits, you know.
Anyway, digging the ALF memes. Those illegal aliens are coming for your pets.
Meanwhile, one side is studying Trump’s ear to see if there’s any sign of him actually being shot, and the other side is studying Harris’s ear to see if she’s wearing bluetooth earrings that are feeding her the answers to the debate.
Good grief, what a time to be a leif.
13/9 2024
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Bella, looking deceptively sweet.

13/9 2024
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For the premium subscribers, a couple of patented camerafalls. And a little lapgoat time iwth Luna in between.
14/9 2024
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Got an hour forty on the bike today. Took some time to get into the groove, but I did the time.
I have been kind of going back to the stricter diet this week, just with added protein skyr. To see how that would work out. I’d put on a couple of pounds after going off the diet. I was fully expecting that, after losing 44 pounds. But it still annoyed me. So I got back on.
And it seems to have worked well, because I got a new record low weight today. So that’s about 46 pounds lost since November.
I think i’ll try the diet + skyr another week or two. See if I can lose a bit more before going back to normal. It’s addictive seeing the numbers drop when you’ve be overweigt all your life. I’ll always feel like the Chris Farley next to Patrick Swayzes. But I’m proud of the last year’s journey. I don’t like saying nice things abut myself, but I’ve done alright.
I could really go for a pizza rightabout now funksoulbrother.
But I’ll have soup, that’s great too. I couldn’t do it without teh soup. The schedule on my strict diet is 3 days of soup and 4 days of green stuff. The’s a compromise I can just about stick to. The cucumbers and tomatoes are pretty much not worth eating anymore now though, so that makes it trickier. But they got me this far.
Now about that soup…
14/9 2024
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At least Sky won’t be the smallest goat in the pen as long as we have Red Sonja fluttering about. Wutt wutt chicken butt.

14/9 2024
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Twitter says to me: “Find out how to register to vote in the United States elections.”
I thought voter fraud was a myth, but here we are, Elon Musk is trying to get a Danish citizen to vote in the American election. I say I say, someone alert the fake news mainstream liberal fascist deespacestate news
14/9 2024
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“Hey Lasse stop posting about politics, hey Lasse stop posting about politics, hey Lasse stop p”
okay okay, Luna. I get your point.
14/9 2024
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goatlog

15/9 2024
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A cute sleepy Luna.

15/9 2024
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Good goat times today. The days are getting cooler, it’s fall in Denmark now. Come clouds and wind, but sunshine too. All in all quite nice. Jeanette backed a trailer up with leaves from her hedge trimming at home. So the goats got a nice bounty of tasty leaves dumped in their laps, or near enough. They quite enjoyed that.
Nice visitors too that got to feed the goats. Along with the usual treats from me. Yeah, they don’t go hungry those goats.
Speaking of not going hungry, time for soup.
2/9 2024
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Jeanette backed up the food delivery truck. Maybe we could put an ice cream van bell on it.

2/9 2024
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Casually posing with goats. Nailed it.

2/9 2024
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Tell us a story, the one about the treats.

2/9 2024
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Btw, in case you’re pish ohed about inflation and you’re blaming it on [that guy] or [that other guy] I can let you in on a little secret. We don’t have either ofthose guys in Denmark, and everybody here is still berry ohed about inflation and gas prices.
But sure. you just have to find the right rich man or woman to run your country, that will fix your personal economy and make it easier to afford basic stuff. You know [your candidate] cares about you and will fix the price of [that thing you want cheaper].
It’s funny, I literally see both sides of the US politics posting the “patriots vs stealers superbowl” meme and both side psting “these were the prices under the other guy” stats and so on and so forth. There’s so much stuff that’s literally exactly the same just with a different president photoshopped into the meme. The [insert name] crooked crime family.
It’s so funny I forgot to laugh.
Anyway. You all know what side of the memecoin I’m on. Toss it in the air and see.
3/9 2024
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Bella’s butt is just hanging out.

3/9 2024
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Got an hour fortyfive on the bike today. Chuggalo chuggalo. Plus assorted wimpy crunches and pushups. Still going at it. So far de-regulating the diet has worked fine. Weight and blood sugar seems stable. Started eating bread again, yum. And various protein additions. I think I forgot to mention that I did end up having pizza on Sunday, sorry to keep this vital information from you. I tried a new place and it wasn’t very good, oh well. If I cram cheese, bread and tomatoes in my mouth it’s a kind of pizza, right? I’ll try that.
3/9 2024
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I love the open road, and all that it suggests..

3/9 2024
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Relax.

3/9 2024
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Good goat times today. It suddenly got hot again. Upwards of 24C/75F. Welcome back summer. The forecast said possibly intermittent heavy rainfalls. It stayed dry while I was out, but the ground was muddy. And it was humid. That oppressive humid heat. Unpleasant at times, but it was nice when there was a big of wind.
Obviously lots of lounging around by the goats. I have found that the upside down bench makes for a really nice thing for me to sit against, my back leaned back against it .Feels good. I may have dozed off a little. Sitting there in the humid heat. Sky was on the plywood next to me. I was listening to the sounds she makes when she’s just sitting and relaxing. And then the sounds slowly fading out as she slips into a little nap. Bella sitting on the tub next to us with her leg dangling over the side as she likes. I was hoping Luna would sit next to me as she loves to do, but I think the ground was too muddy. She ended up walking over to one of the platforms and getting up there to sit in the sun. Later I walked over there to check on her and she was all out, laying down curled up and sleeping. Tired cuties.
Nice to have a bit of summer in September. We had some sweet visitors at the fence too and the feathers fluttering around of course. Quality time.
4/9 2024
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Tired Sky.

4/9 2024
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While I was lying back against the upturned bench and baking in the humidity and sun, I wanted to take a picture. I didn’t really have anywhere to place the camera, i didn’t want to get up and go fetch the tripod. I ended up putting the camera on the log, which was right in front of me. Set the selftimer, took a bunch of pics. Came home and looked at them. I’m sitting there with my legs bunched up, legs open wide, crotch right in the camera. Like photos of a pregnant woman being told to PUSH. I thought to myself I thought, well I can’t post any of these. Too bad. And then I thought, there’s a couple of people who would enjoy these. However, everyone else would be horrified and I would be humiliated.
So at least I got a story out of it. I’m not posting the pics, don’t ask!
4/9 2024
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Bella loves chilling on the tub.

4/9 2024
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Okay, I’m not going to post *THOSE’ pics, but here’s one after I managed to move the camera to the side. Not flattering, but at least it won’t get me flagged. Probably. You’ll have to imagine me in this position, with my legs spread and the camera right in front of me pointed right at the twigs and berries. Actually, please don’t imagine that. For your own good.
I think that’s enough facebooking for me today, I’ll end up getting my license revoked.

4/9 2024
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Good goat times today. Another beautiful summery day, even hotter than yesterday. Upwards of 26C/78F. But no oppressive humidity. Really lovely day.
We had a lot of visitors today. Lots of sweet kids. Svend, the namekeeper of the animals, was back. He’s sweet, but he needs to be told to close the gate when he goes through it. He just leaves it open, it has happened plenty of times, on several visits. Hopefully he’ll learn. Good thing the goats are too preoccupied to make an escape.
There was a sweet girl that’s been there before too. I think her name was Irene. She came in with one of the adults, who asked me “I’m so embarrassed, but I have forgotten your name”. Haha I don’t expect them to know my name so tha’ts fine. but she asked if Irene could come over and sit with me and pet Sky. And of course she could. Irene walked over to us very slowly and the adult explained that she had problems seeing, that’s why she was so slow. I am not sure if it’s a permanent condition or not, but you can imagine that got to me. I know a thing or two about not being able to see. But she came over to us and sat down and spent a lot of time stroking Sky’s fur. She was very sweet.
Meanwhile Jeanette was cooking “squash deller” on the campfire. A version of a tradition Danish dish, frikadeller. I think that’s made with pork. it’s something I have never ever eaten. I might have tried them made of squash, but as Jeanette apologetically remarked later in the day, she forgot to ask me if I wanted some! Maybe next time.
Beautiful day with furs and feathers and even peoples.
And I came home and got an hour and a half on the bike. On a hot day. Phew. Pretty beat now.
5/9 2024
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Sky is filling up her skinny frame with some hay, while Bella and Luna are relaxing inside in the cool shade.

5/9 2024
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I should probably get the christmas decorations out of the attic, I don’t want a repeat of last year’s fiasco where I was the only person on the block not all decked out in September.
5/9 2024
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goatlog

6/9 2024
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What kind of father would buy an assault rifle for his 13 year old son, AFTER the fbi had contacted them over the kid making threats about school shootings?
The kind of father who is now charged with manslaughter, murder and child cruelty because his son did a school shooting,
What a fkn insane world. Everything about it is so damn sad.
And half of America will agree that it’s just a fact of life and we have to move on and 8 year olds shooting themselves becaue they were left alone in a car with their parents weapons, that’s just how it is. Fkn nuts.
6/9 2024
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Losing all this weight has been nice, but there are side effects. Shameful ones that are hard to talk about. It’s difficult to admit, but I can no longer eat a whole pot of soup in one go.
Haha. I used to cook up a whole big pot of soup, like big enough to feed a family. And I would eat the whole thing and love it. I can’t do that anymore. I googled it and apparently human stomachs don’t shrink when you’re in adult age, but that’s what it feels like. It’s kind of hard to adjust and try to cook up less. Sometimes I end up actually having to throw some of it out. I can usually down all the soup, but sometimes I have to throw out some of the veggies and flourballs. And no matter how bloated I feel after a soup session, the next time I make soup I still find myself wanting to cook up as much as possible. I have a mental craving to just make as much as possible, even though I know I won’t be able to finish.
Talk about first world problems.
6/9 2024
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Sky and Sonja, gal pals.

7/9 2024
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Got an hour on the bike today. i had to cut it short unfortunately. When I started doing the intervals part, I started feeling a sharpish pain in my right calf. Not excruciating, but bad enough that I thought it beetter to abandon bike and put some ice on it. Not feeling it too much now, hopefully it’s not too bad. A month or two ago I had something in my left calf you might recall. This one felt a little worse. But we’ll see. I’ll give it a little rest and hopefully it will be ready to go again.
Now I’ll cook up some soup, and do my best to finish it all.
7/9 2024
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Wut wut, chicken butt. Red Sonja shaking her tailfeathers.

7/9 2024
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goatlog

8/9 2024
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Been feeling a little down. Partly just the regular depression that follows me around. But also little bit because of a new development at the playground.
Thursday was such a beautiful sunny day with lots of happy kids and fun. But it was also the first time I really saw a big shift in the hierarchy of the goats.
It’s been going on for a while that Bella has been getting stronger and dominant. I could see it especially in the mornings, hen she’d finish her breakfast bowl and then try to get into Sky’s breakfast bowl. She could easily push Luna way from her bowl, but Sky would stand her ground and fight her off.
But on Thursday for the first time I saw Sky retreating. Not so much at breakfast, but in general.
I saw it first, without realising it, in the morning. When Luna and Bella were up on the platform together, while Sky was sitting I think on the plywood board on the mountain. Normally you’d see Sky and Bella on the platform, Luna perched on the ramp. I didn’t think too much of that, it’s not like it’s unusal for sky to go sit somewhere on her own sometimes.
But then later in the day there was a big headbutting battle. Sky and Luna crashing heads. I just uploaded a video of that on the goat page. And you can see when Bella joins in, Sky is bleating unhappily about it. And she ends up having to run away. She can’t match Bella anymore. Bella is bigger and stronger and has the youthful energy.
It was a little sad, seeing sky retreat. I don’t want it to be like when she was young and she had to run away from the other goats and hide under the hoat house and all that.
AT least she got a year and a half of experiencing being the biggest and strongest goat in the goat pen. It also makes me a little sad because I can’t help thinking, I wish she still had her brother with her. Sigh.
Later on Bella and Luna were next to me, and I saw Sky a ways away looking at us forlornly like she didn’t dare come over to us. Okay, the forlornly part is just me projecting. But I don’t want her to not be able to come to me because she’s scared of Bella.
We’ll see how it all develops. Hopefully they will still function okay as a group, even if Bella is the leader. She can be pretty pushy, I can’t remember if I’ve mentioend it, but for a while it’s been harder to feed apples or cucumber to all three of them together, because Luna will retreat from Bella a lot too. Those two used to be able to eat from the same apple, while I gave another apple to Sky with my other hand. But Bella is so pushy now that Luna will usually retreat and I’ll have to do extra effort to give her some too. I love all three of them, but Bella can be very demanding.
Anyway. Sorry for the rambling. You better believe I showed Sky a lot of love. As Bella and Luna started climbing the branch pile and went around grazing, I sat with Sky for ages and loved on her. She loves the attention. She’ll sit for absolute ages and just be scratched and cuddled and get hooves rubbed and she doesn’t seem to get tired of it. I will make sure she still knows I love my Sky girl.

8/9 2024
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Here’s me loving on Sky to amke sure she still felt appreciated and cared for. There’s a longer version of the video up on the goat page. But this is just a bit of sweetness.
8/9 2024
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