Thanksgiving has passed, but I’m still thankful for friends, family and of course goats. Along with everything else I have in my quite priviliged life. Here’s Mia’s message:

I am also thankful that the sun came back. After a long, dark stretch. Good to see it again. Even if it’s still cold. And colder. We needed some sunshine in the goat pen too. It’s been such a mudfest. The poor goats trying to jump from lifeboat to lifeboat. Every little stepping stone they can find to keep out of the mud. There is no escape! Hopefully the sun will stay and improve things.

On Thursday I brought my inflatable gym ball back to the playground. Same result as last time, though. The goats are still scared of it. I took Bruce and Clark out of the pen, hoping I could get them to play with it. But no luck. I did get them both, and Mia as well, to step up on it to reach an offered treat. But any sign of it moving would send them darting off into the distance. Oh well! I left the ball there, maybe they can get used to it if it just lays in the corner of the pen and isn’t threatening anyone. You never know.

I got myself a new duvet. It’s super warm and comfy and lovely. And I spent entirely too long in bed just enjoying the feeling of it. Aah. I was supposed to exercise today. But there is no time for dreamers.

So it goes. Go go goat photos.

A new box for the goats to stand on. Trying to avoid the mud.

And a goatlog. With sunshine and mud. Goats balancing on things to avoid the mud. Bruce and Clark scared of the gym ball, play fighting and climbing on my back. A cucumber for Mia. And such fun.

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

It’s been a pretty quiet week. No goats leaving, no soup to eat. Why the most exciting must have been…

Changing the cover photo on Mia’s Facebook page. Lucky 6 now. I miss Herman. That nutty goofball. I hope he’s doing well at his new home.

Other than that, it’s been cold weather and time spent with goats. I bought a down vest which seems to be effective. We’ll see how well it copes when it gets even colder. I’ll probably be ballooning up even more. With thermal shirt, blouse, vest and fleece. And coat. We’ll see. We’ll all see.

I think for now we’ll just see some more goat photos.

Mia sweetness.

Look at Clark poking his head in. “Don’t forget me, guys!

You’re supposed to look at the camera for family photo time, Bruce.

We can haz raisins?

Little Clark is such a dollface.

Mia always makes it better when I’m down.

I always feel like, somebody’s watching me.

Mia’s new favourite place. That was where I taught her to shake paws. So now she’ll jump up there and look at me expectantly. “Where are my panuts? I’ll shake your hand, just give me peanuts”. And if I don’t come with peanuts she’ll just stand there and chew her cud with a good vantage point over the pen.

Got a little hay on your face there, Mia.

Always a fight for the spotlight.

And a goatlog. With lots of chewing. Hay, peanuts. cud. And Bruce playing on my back.

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