September is coming along. The weather is actually quite nice. We have had plenty of days around 20C. Summer is hanging on. I’m quite enjoying that. The goats are good. The new place is good. I’m loving it, really. Even the walk there is great now that I’m listening to audiobooks while I walk. Currently Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. It’s all good and I appreciate the good I have. My mind kinda fell in a dark hole this week, but I’m crawling back up. Appreciating the good. The football is great. Brøndby is number 1 in the league after 8 games. Miracles never cease. That’s about it. I’ll copypase a couple of Facebook entries and then on with photos.

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Good goat times today. Another lovely, warm day. The calendar says autumn in Denmark now, but we still have a little summerlife left.
I decided to take the goats out to the seperate pen again today. Just to try. The journey went a lot easier. I put A38 on a leash and just walked ahead. Mia and Mio followed without too much complaining, since they didn’t want to get left behind. Just as the gals went out on the path on the other side of the trees a group of kids came walking by. A daycare or kindergarten group I think. So they got an upclose encounter of the goat kind. Lots of laughter. It all went a lot smoother this time. And A38 wasn’t constantly bleating in the new pen this time either. Improvement! Later on Anne brought the horses out to the pen too. She takes them one by one, and I don’t think they like being seperated much. Mulle, the one that’s taken a bit of a liking to me, came first. And she started galloping around a bit. The goats were not amused. They fled in terror. I don’t think Mulle was actually exactly chasing the goats, but she was just running back and forth and the goats had to keep fleeing. Poor things. I almost didn’t laugh, a little. Once all the horses were in the pen everything seemed calmer. Until A38 noticed that Anne hadn’t closed the gate properly when she left. “I’m outta here” A38 screamed, in ny head, as she ran out of the pen. Instead of trying to get her back in I took all the goats back home to the safe pen, and let the horses have the other one to themselves. At least we had some fun and some good greens.
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Good goat times today. Another beautiful, sunny day. A lazy day with lots of sitting around with the gang. Funny start, though. I was walking down the path to the playground. Normally the girls are out in the big pasture. But they’d gone into the little one with the dark woods. So they spotted me from there before I was expecting them. A nice and loud surprising bleat from Mia, haha. And just as I was coming up a mother with a little boy and girl came around too. She had to laugh and said “I think they know you!”. The kids got to pet the goats through the fence, as I handed out some treats. To the goats. The little boy looked at me in awe and said “the man has peanuts in his pocket!”. Oh yes. If only more people were so impressed by a pocketful of peanuts. But it works on goats and kids, I guess.
When it was time to leave I got some nice bleats from A38 as well. It’s always nice when your coming and going gets registered as important enough to bleat about. She must like me after all. She’s showing a little more group mentality too. Bleating after us if I walk away from her and Mia and Mio follow. Then she’ll follow too, still at a safe distance. But just little signs that she’s feeling part of the group, even if she isn’t allowed in hoof’s distance.
And it’s lovely when we’re all just sitting in the sun and doing nothing. One of my favourite things to do.
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The week is over. Again. There have been really good goat times. I am really happy with how the move has gone and how things are at the new place. I have still, however, felt some sadness. Maybe it’s still Palle on my mind. Or maybe it’s just the heavy blanket of depression. I don’t know. It doesn’t matter, I’ll keep on trucking and appreciate all the good things I have. Things could be worse, much worse. Tomorrow is another day, most likely. We’ll get there. Just a couple of Facebook copypastes from this week and then we’ll move on.

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Good goat times today. I got a little morning bleater greeter from A38, that was nice. Normally it’s mostly Mia with the hollering. Had a little big adventure today. I decided to take the goats to the little, seperate pen on the other side of the pathway outside. It’s a nice place with lots of vegetation for browsing. Mia and Mio enjoyed that. But they didn’t enjoy the travel so much. Even though it’s right next door. There’s a couple of narrow passages to go through. And they really don’t like that. Plus everything is still pretty new and different. So I had to work hard to get them to come. And then when I got them in there… I didn’t close the gate properly so Mio darted out and started heading back to more familiar territory. I went after her and… heard a noise, turned around and saw Mia out of the pen too. I think she must have jumped the fence. She’s not Peanut’s mother for nothing. So another bit of effort to get the both back in there and Mia securely fastened to prevent further escape. Then I went to get A38. She’s considerably easier to get to come along. Mainly because she’s not strong as an ox. She didn’t seem to enjoy the new surroundings, though. She kept bleating and bleating, and not eating. Normally she usually only bleats when one of the big gals approach her. So it was odd hearing her bleat so much. It’s not their first time out there, Anne told me she’d taken them there on Tuesday. I let Mia and Mio get a good fill of fresh leaves and then I took them all back. Which went considerably faster than the trip out. Well, at least we had a new experience! I’m not sure I’ll take them there again. It seems a little too stressful. For them I mean, not just for me. There’s a beautiful landscape beyond though. It’s like a real park. Looks like hills with trees and bushes and such. I’d love to just take Mia and Mio out there and set them free to roam and browse. Only problem is there seems to be a lot of people walking their dogs out there. And I’m not sure if it’s customary to have them on a leash or not. I wouldn’t want us to encounter loose dogs in the wilderness,
Today I decided to bring my MP3 player and listen to a book while walking the walk. I figure if I’m goin to spend 1½ hours walking I may as well get some reading done too. Makes it feel more productive. Although I did almost end up crying in public because something sad happened in The Onion Girl. Stop judging me! I’m a manly man, I’m going to go smoke cigars and high-five my hooligan friends.
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I spend most of my time at the new place with the animals. But here and there I have my little human encounters too. Here’s a little human interaction report.
Anne often comes around mid day to take the horses out to that other pen. One horse at a time. Leaving them whinnying for their turn. And of course the goats are interested in that white door they go through, because there’s food in there. Mia was trying to get to the door while Anne was taking one of the horses through. She said “No, go over to your goat guy”. And then she sort of corrected herself as if she’d said something wrong. “I mean, Lasse”. Haha. I’m used to just being the goat man (some kids called me that today too). And as she said, she’d been “the horse girl” for most of her life there.
The morning when I was the first to arrive for the first time, I had a little chat with Finbarr when he came in. I think he’s usually the one who comes in first in the mornings and let’s the animals out and then he goes and does office work or whatever needs to be done at the playground. I still very much appreciate what he said on the first day I was there, “we want you to be able to do all the things you did at the other place”.
Had a talk with Ophelia too. I asked how she thought the girls were doing. And she thought the same as me, that Mia and Mio seems to have settled in well and that they’re happy. And that the relationship with A38 is slowly improving. I told her how she’d started standing her ground a little more instead of always running away. And as we were talking, all three goats were snacking on the willow branches in the pen. “One of them is a little bossy at feeding time” she said. Haha. I wonder who that could be. Cough Mio train cough. Today she was changing the water buckets and Mio and Mia were putting their hooves up on me. And she asked me about hoof trimming. Which I’d actually been meaning to ask HER about. How they usually do it. They’re overdue for a trimming, so I’m glad we got that brought up.
And so on and so forth. Humans. Not only the most dangerous game *twirls moustache*, but also the most confusing.
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