I knew I shouldn’t have jinxed it by calling it springtime! The sun decided to mutiny and take a few days off. Cold and grey. But luckily it’s back now. It’s been a splendid, sunny weekend actually. So NOW it’s DEFINITELY spring.

Your move, seasons.

Meanwhile, I did some yard work in the goat pen. I decided to get a rake and try to clean up the place a little. There’s been a big buildup of old hay all over the place. Layers on layers. The bottom practically fermenting in places. I thought, if there’s to be a chance of anything green growing in the pen then I’d better try and clear some ground. It was hard work, really. The rake things were sort of plasticcy and not very good. And I’m not used to using my body like that. It was sore for days after. I got about halfway done, maybe, on Tuesday. When I came back Thursday most of it had been finished. Nina told me that they’d had some kids help out clearing the rest. I’ll probably do a little polish up next week, but it’s looking much better. I don’t know how much green there’ll be, but at least I tried. I also continued the work on the wooden staircases. Yes, it’s a man’s life in the goat pen. Hard work. Haha, not really. And I love those goats. I don’t mind doing a little work to keep them happy and entertained. My heart grows a size or two when I’m with them.

Otherwise, not much to report. Mama will be making soup on my birthday, next Saturday. I can dig it.

And photos. We’ll start off with a bunch of Palle.

Surveying the scene.

Profile.

I love this picture. Funny perspective. His head looks about three times bigger than his body.

That face again, it’s Mr Palle.

Never get tired of him.

His newest thing is to try to push the cap off my face. He seems to quite enjoy trying to do that. Over and over.

He is the darlingest one.

Kamel at the fence.

And enjoying the hay.

I see you, Mia!

Back to eating for one, Mio.

Poke poke.

And a goatlog. Fun runnings and me doing yard work and suchthings.

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

It’s been a rather lovely week. Lots of sunshine and almost warm temperatures. I actually managed to be overdressed for a change. Came home from the playground drenched in sweat. Also because I’d been carrying around heavy chunks of wood. Rebuilding one of the wooden staircases for the goats. Good exercise. Meanwhile, the goats preferred to just sit around lazily in the sunshine. I love when they do that. Especially when Mia and Palle sat down together on the bench. Like they were waiting for the bus, it was commented on Facebook. You know spring is coming when they start sitting down. They rarely do that when it’s cold.

Actually, it’s March now. So spring is officially here. March has been known to be treacherous, weatherwise. But the 15 day forecast shows temperatures above 5C on all days. Like Bodil said “you almost don’t dare to think winter is over”. But maybe it is. I am really looking foward to warmer days.

In other news, still no goat babies. And it looks like there won’t be. Yup. I went back and redid the math. And it’s more than 6 months since Medium and Large left now. So since goats are pregnant for 5 months…. that means Medium can’t have gotten Mio pregnant. Which is good, after all. I guess we _did_ remove him in time. But of course I’m a little sad that I won’t be having goat babies around just yet. I was looking forward to seeing them jump around on the things I’ve been building. And after building up all this anticipation!

I was so sure she was pregnant because of the way she has ballooned up. Kurt came by the other day and just by looking at her said “yeah, that’s just fat”. And Dennis and I have both tried feeling to see if we can feel any babies inside. Without any luck. And of course her udders are still not pronounced. In fact it seems like Mia’s udders are more pronounced than Mio’s. But I’m sure that just because Palle was drinking from her until recently. I dont want to go into any crazy “maybe MIA is pregnant” theories.

It’s all very puzzling, though. Guess the old lady needs to go on a diet. She’s always chasing the others away from the food. Now you see where that gets you!

There is talk of Kurt sending one of his bucks to the playground for a while. I’m not sure how soon, but I guess we could have kids at the end of summer then. Personally, I wouldn’t mind if we waited. Although I love having goat kids at the playground I wouldn’t mind if Mio and Mia got a little break. But we’ll see. As long as they are all happy and healthy.

Nothing new about the possible closing of the playground, really. Alice came and talked to me about it. She said that if they did have to close then she’d do her best to find a place where the goats could go together so they wouldn’t be split up. And hopefully a place where I could still go see them. But I hope it won’t come to that. I think she said the public hearing period ends in August, and who knows how long it might be after that before anything gets decided. So nothing will happen for a while yet.

Lots of good times still ahead, no matter what. And now photos ahead.

Funny Mia.

Pretty Mia.

Mio spotted some chickens in the distance and was very alarmed. Kept a close watch while snorting and sneezing.

Aw Palle. That face.

Palle and Mia.

Fuzzy Kamel.

Mia diving in the hay.

Mio the unpregnant.

Mio sitting at the fence. Also seen: Bodil.

That Palle face again.

Palle’s eye.

Hugging Palle.

Mia in the background wondering what Palle is doing.

Mia and Palle sitting in the shade of Kamel!

Cutiemia.

Got your nose.

All for one and one for all!

Mia and Palle on the work-in-progress new staircase.

Mia and Palle sitting on the bench. Adorable.

Mio and me.

And a goatlog. Lots of fun stuff. Goats sitting in the sun. Chasing each other around. Jumping and butting heads. Alarmed at chickens and dogs. Kamel enjoying a really juicy pear. And so on and so forth.

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