First of all, merry christmas from the goats and I.

A little christmas card. With Kamel from last winter. Bless her. I hope the feast was plentiful where she spent this christmas.

I made sure the gang here had a nice feast. Brought a bunch of chopped up carrots, apples, bananas and bread. Four happy goats with a bucket each. And almost no food fighting. Later on a watermelon for dessert. Not too bad! We didn’t get a white christmas, but you can’t have everything. The company was good.

My own christmas was quite nice, if a little rough. I didn’t get a bucket of food. But I did get a fancy christmas dinner. Normally we celebrate christmas at home. But we had uncle Jens and his girlfriend joining us and since uncle Jens’ girlfriend is a wheelchair user and there are no elevators in my parents’ building it was decided to do it differently this year. They kinda gave me two choices. Renting banquet rooms in the building (or neighbourhood? I’m not sure) or eating at the hotel where Jens was staying. They were probably expecting me to go for the banquet room, since they know I don’t much like being out in crowds. But I thought it would be a nice thing to do for the family if I went along with the hotel idea. And as it later turned out that my mother had to be in the hospital (she’s home now) it turned out well that she didn’t have to do any cooking and cleaning.

It was hard on me at first, eating out among strangers. But once my nerves settled and I got some food in me it was okay. Good food, good people. I’m just lucky to have people who want to spend time with me. I appreciate that. It was a nice place and a good time.

I’m also lucky to have so many sweet friends on Facebook. I’ve met a lot of nice people through Mia’s page. It’s almost up to 4000 fans now. Pretty neat. As previously mentioned, my friend Katt got a whole campaign going. She made a secret group and added lots of my friends and they planned and schemed in secret to send me lots of stuff. On Christmas Day they let me into the group so I could see how they’d all been planning it. It made me laugh and cry. What a bunch of sweethearts. And I’ve been getting lots of cards and presents. Among them a couple of little paintings of me and Popcorn from Keiko. Absolutely beautiful. I’ll have to try to get photos of some of the things up at some point. It’s just amazing that they think me and the goats bring something positive to their day, and that they want to make me feel appreciated too. I love it. I have really felt the love.

Also, thank you Deb! For the card and letter. I think you’re still just about the only one reading the blog. I hope Sam is recovering nicely and that all the critters are doing well. And that there’ll be lots of painting work in the future! And maybe a hummingbird here and there. Thank you for being a friend, and being a reason to keep the blog going!

Now I’m just trying not to choke on the christmas candy. I bought too much. And neglected exercise. Oh dear. I’ll have to pay for it later. But let’s just get through new year’s safely, please! And now, let’s get to some goat photos.

One of the presents I got from the facebookers.

And videos.

And that’s all for this week, folks. See you in the next one.

Quiet week. Nothing new to report. About anything really. Gearing up for christmas. And by that I mean exercising to lose weight so I can eat unhealtily for the holidays without hating myself too much afterwards. Haha. I have lost 11 pounds in two weeks. So that’s not too bad. I look forward to putting it all on again on Christmas Eve.

The goats are fine. Peanut got a little cross with me the other day, though. Him and Palle got burdocks stuck in their fur on one of our outings. Palle has a pretty calm and easy going demeanor. Getting them off him was easy. But I think Peanut’s fluffier fur made it harder on him. And he’s still got a bit of a wild stallion in him. Maybe because we didn’t get him castrated until after he was all juiced up. In any case, he was not pleased with me when I was trying to get the burdocks off him. Oh dear. He’d forgotten about it the next time I saw him, though. So that’s okay.

We also had a little group of kids stop by and sing a christmas song for the goats. They were busy eating hay, so they didn’t pay too much attention to it. Peanut did go check them out. But it was cute having the kids sing to us.

Meanwhile I’ve been trying to not be jealous at everyone who has seen The Force Awakens. Grargh.

Let’s go to the photos.

The boys had an epic street fight. They were going at it for ages. While bicycles and walkers went by. Quite a spectacle.

And videos.

And that’s all for this week, folks. See you in the next one.