Good goat times today. A beautiful sunny day. Up around 24C/75F. That’s hot for Denmark.
I don’t think we’ve had any days up at 30/86 this summer. One or two that got close. But no scorchers. But plenty over 20/68. For me it’s a good summery day when it’s above that.
Just trying to enjoy the last weeks of summer, before hte gloomy months start approaching. Better not think of that yet.
And sweet times with the goats. Summer vacation is over, hopefully we’ll start seeing our regular visitors from the neighbour school soon. There were a few people going by today, but none that stayed very long at the goats.
So we just relaxed in the sun. I maybe have laid down on the plywood board and taken a half-nap. Roasting in the sun. Well baked. Lots of treats and cuddles of course. The goat days of summer.
12/8 2024
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Zzzzz

12/8 2024
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Luna is waking up Cinderfella.

12/8 2024
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A beautiful day in the goathood.

12/8 2024
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goatlog

13/8 2024
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Got an hour thirtyfive on the bike today. Still going strong. LEMME HEAR YOU SAY YEAH.
Yeah.

13/8 2024
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Double goat butt salute.

13/8 2024
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Busy day of goating and tech support today.
My parents got their new printer, and I promised to come over and hook it up.
First I had to get some good goat times in, though. Even if it was shorter than usual, it was still good to spend time with the furbles. I did get a little worried when the skies suddenly opened up and a massive, heavy rainfall started. There I was in my t-shirt, no jacket or raincoat. Jeanette asked me “don’t you have one of those small packaway raincoats?”. I do. I just.. hadn’t brought it. Oh dear. Thankfully the rain stopped before it was time for me to leave. Otherwise I would have gotten completely soaked to the bone.
But I went off to my parents place. It was easier when we were at the old playground. My parents place is more or less halfway on the road between my place and the old playground. So I could swing by more easily. This playground is not on the way to my parents place. So now it’s a bigger detour. It’s a bit of a problem with my bad back. I took the bus for half the way, but there’s still a fair bit of a walk. But I got there. Got the new printer unpacked. No USB cable in the box. I’d been worried about that, since everything is wireless these days. Thankfully the cable from the old printer worked. The new printer is basically a newer version of the same model. It would have been a big bummer if we had to postpone it all and find a new cable. But got it hooked up. It took some work to get it all in order, but got the computer to see it and got it to use the new printer instead of the old. You’d think when there’s one printer connected to the computer and one printer ‘offline’ it would be smart enough to figure to use the available printer, not hte unavailable one. But no, had to set the new printer as the standard. All of this done hunched over with my magnifying glass, trying to read the screen. Again, stuff that would take me 10 seconds on my own computer takes ages and is much mroe difficult there. The printer gave soem errors, first with the ink cartridges then with the paper feed. But I got it sorted and it was a relief when we finally got it to print the first page. Phew.
Thought it was all done then, but then my mother tried printing a recipe from a site and it came out with not as it should, so I had to spend more time trying to fix that. But I think it was a problem with the site she was using, it was doing something weird with the page formatting. She tried another site and it worked fine. And my dad could print his mails. When we talk to each other I usually send him an email afterwards with the details of what we have agreed on, because otherwise he will forget it immediately. So he prints a lot of mails from me, and other stuff I’m sure, to remember stuff. That was the main priority, getting that working again.
And it seems like it’s working. So that’s good. i’m happy that I can help them with tech stuff. It’s frustrating now that I’m increasingly getting ‘left behind’ by new tech. I haven’t followed the evolution of tech stuff as much since I started losing my eyesight. Like wireless stuff. I don’t do wireless connections. I need wires. There was a day when it was unthinkable that a printer would come without a cable. Now I guess it’s standard. At least it still hast he USB port. How long before that just goes away?
And my dad was supposed a photo to his doc of his hip, after his falls. But sending photos over the computer is kind of beyond them. And I can’t really help since I don’t know anything about smartphones. His phone has a camera, but I have no idea if he has a cable somewhere to connect it or if it’s supposed to be wireless too. I can’t help them with newer phone and smart device stuff.
But I’ll stop rambling about all that now.
Walked home, thankfully it still stayed dry. But my back is killing me now. It’s been better in the last few months. The weight loss probably hasn’t hurt, and I got psoas massager that I use on my back before leaving home and I bring it to the playground so I can use it before walking home. It seems to help my back a lot. But when I’m out for a long time and walking a lot and in uncomfortable positions in places I’m not familiar with, my back pain still gets excruciating.
I need a nap now.Sorry for the blabbing.
14/8 2024
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Hiding from the rain, with Sky.

14/8 2024
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It would have been Mia’s 12th birthday today. I still can’t really think about it too much, the pain will overwhelm me. But I will always love and miss her and be thankful for how she changed my life.
Up there weighting down the clouds with Mio, Palle, Kamel, Yogi, everyone.
14/8 2024
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Good goat times today. Lovely sunny day. Hot and humid. We had more heavy rain coming in overnight. But it stayed dry to and the sun dried everything off nicely.
Lots of visitors today. The neighbour school friends are back from vacation. Some old faces, some new. Good to have them come by again. There’s especially one lady who is always nice, I think her name is Cecilie, but I could be wrong about that. But she’s always kind to me. You can tell she cares about the animals, and appreciates what Jeanette and I do for them. She told she was glad to see me again, and the goats too. Some of the kids came into the pen and got some closeup time with the goats. And feathers. There is one boy, Svend, who knows the names of the goats, and the feathers. He’s better at their names than I am! Yes, the newfeathers have names now but I only really know Susie, the big white one who isn’t Henrietta. She’s a sussex. The two other are Hanna and Maren, but I’m not surew hich is which. Is that all of them? Henrietta, Sonja, Susie, Hanna, Maren. Yup, five feathers.
But that was all lovely. And then home for an hour twenty five on the bike. Phew. Pretty beat now. Time for soup.
15/8 2024
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A spot in the sun with Sky. And a little Luna in the back.

15/8 2024
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Oh yeah. I got my results from the doctor visit last week back. My longterm blood sugar levels are… “exactly how where they’re supposed to be. Good job”. Hooray! So that was a success. Last November we were talking about maybe putting me on new meds because the levels were too high. But I wanted to try to fix it with lifestyle changes, which I’ve managed to do before. And I managed to do it again. Let’s hope I can manage to keep it down this time. At some point I’m going to go less restrictive on my diet, we’ll see how that affects things. I’ve kind been back on the strict diet, after the pizza and Corn Flakes break I took for a couple of days. I’ll probably try to keep it going for a couple of weeks longer. But I do want to get back to eating a little more normally.
Happy to have lost all that weight and gotten my blood sugar down to where it’s supposed to be, though. I’ve been working hard on it, so it’s satisfying to see the results.
Thank you all for cheering me on and listening to my b&m.
15/8 2024
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My Twin Peaks rewatch is almost at an end. I am loving it so much, it’s been a great experience going through the whole thing. Still need to finish the last two episodes and then reread the last book. But just, what a masterpiece. Beautiful, frightening, thought provoking, hilarious, melodramatic, spiritual, ridiculous, hammy, slow, fast, brilliant and wonderful. What other show could feature the words “see you in 25 years” and then actually come back 25 years later and be the best thing on tv. Twin Peaks could. IS it about the bunny?
Anyway. It’s about bedtime for me. Just finished the Eddie Vedder episode. I am not a big Vedder or Pearl Jam fan. Respect from my afar was my relationship with him. But I have been listening to this song over and over since this episode aired for the first time in 2017. I love it so much.
🎶 And I am who I am, who I was I will never be again. Running out of sand.
Who I could have been, i’ll never have the chance. Running out of sand🎵
Man, I feel that so hard. Sometimes I feel like there’s just a single grain or two left in the hourglass. And what could I have been? I don’t know. There’s another us somewhere with much better lives,
Okay, goodnight folks. Here comes the sandman.

15/8 2024
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Anyone else getting just a blank page when they try to look at their notifications?
Strange, when I switch to the goat page, the notifications load there. But not on my personal profile. Maybe fb just realised that they’re forked up the notifications system and are getting rid of it alltogether. I am tired of it.
My dad was just over, he seems to be doing pretty well. A big swelling on his leg from the falls, but other than that he seems to have recovered well. So that’s good.
16/8 2024
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The graass is always greener on the other side.. says Bella.
When they’re standing like this at the fence it always makes me think of prisoner’s in the prison yard, staring at the world outside. Thankfully the goats have it pretty good on th inside.

16/8 2024
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I want to be Dave Grohl when I grow up.
Or marry Dave Grohl. Or be around him. Be near him. I want to wear his face as a mask and go on stage and play horribly and mumble the words while the other members of Foo Fighters look at each other and try to decide who’s going to tackle the imposter wearing hte Dave Grohl skinsuit and perform the banishing ritual to send him back to hell.
I want to trap Dave Grohl in ember and keep him as a prize for thousands of years and then the aliens can extract his dna when they try to bring back the human race after we nuked ourselves into oblivion.
I want to make four clones of Dave Grohl so he can do all the housework while i sit and listen to foo fighter music on youtube.
I could go on

16/8 2024
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17/8 2024
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For the premium subscribers, some bonus footage. Bella remains focused on ruining my footage.
17/8 2024
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Got an hour thirtish on the bike today. Still working hard. And good results, dropped another couple of pounds. Great motivation to keep at it for another couple of weeks. See how low I can get before I start easing into a more normal diet. I tell you what, it’s kind of surreal seeing such low numbers on the scales. I have been at least 20 pounds heavier most of my adult life, and at times 40 all the way up to 60 pounds heavier. Estimated numbers, but the point stands. If I didn’t wear a belt, my pants would be dropping around my ankles. And we wouldn’t want that now would we.
Time for some reward soup. It’s the reward program that keeps me a loyal customer at Lassecorps inc. Apply for a membership today, donut delay!
17/8 2024
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When she’s not ruining my videos, Bella likes to relax and chill.

17/8 2024
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Hmm, maybe I should get a shirt made with a goat silhouette on it…

17/8 2024
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Good goat tims today. Another beautiful sunny day, and quite warm. I think it got up around 24C/75F, which is hot for us. I didn’t bring enough to drink so I got a bit woozy later on. But I was fine.
The big deal today was of course the long awaited return of Jeanette from vacation. Hooray! We survived three weeks without her. We ran out of hay at the end of last week. Jeanette had to go get new stuff. She said that, like last year, there’s not enough available to buy. She had to get some extra expensive premium stuff, I think it’s for horses. Well the goats were happy with it. Fine dining! Let’s hope we can get our hands on some of the regular stuff soon.
It was good to see Jeanette. We had a nice talk in the morning. “There’s not much left of you now” she remarked. Haha. Nice of her to notice. So we chatted a little about my diet and health too. It’s just good to have her around and taking care of the animals again, and of me. Of course.
And I had a lovely time with the goats. Lots of cuddles and treats, good relaxing and some headbutting. The goats, not me. Bella and Luna got into a big one where they were running and grunting at eachother, they don’t usually do that. But they calmed down before I could get my camera going. Come on, save it for the show!
Now I’ll grab some soup, no cheese.
5/8 2024
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Meditation in the goat pen. While Sky is ready to steal the goat tax from my pocket.

5/8 2024
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The goats enjoying their premium hay.

5/8 2024
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Made good on my second promise/threat. Got myself Corn Flakes today. I have to fact check myself. I said that I thought I’d never had Corn Flakes before. That’s baloney. Of course I have. As a kid. I don’t know why I thought I hadn’t. But I haven’t as an adult, so it was fun to grab a bowl. Well it was alright. Not something I’ll be doing again I think. Not sure why I suddenly had a craving to have Corn Flakes. Got milk, too. For the first time in more than a decade I think. Maybe have had chocolate milk a few times over the years. But straight milk, I stopped that long ago. And no plans to keep doing that either. If I was going to start drinking milk again, I’d drink some kind of milk-like drink. Just to pee oh the people under the thumb of Big Dairy who get infuriated because YOU CAN’T MILK A NUT. The only reason I didn’t get some nutmilk (mmm…) today was because I don’t know which I’d like and I didn’t feel like experimenting for just a bowl of cereal this one time. Now I got it out of the system, no more cereal or milk for me anytime soon.
Back to tomatoes, cucumber and apples, and soup, for a while, I think.
5/8 2024
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Sunblissed with the three goat girls.

5/8 2024
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6/8 2024
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You know, I don’t mean to take photos with goats in them. But every time I try to take a cool selfie for my instergam peeps, when I look at them afterwards there are just goats in them.

6/8 2024
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Got an hour and a half on the bike today. Good to get back on it after a couple of ‘cheat days’ with pizza and Corn Flakes. Good to get a sweat going again. Burn those calories.
It was a bit of a slog, because I hadn’t gotten enough sleep last night. They have started laying foundations for a new building in a lot almost right next to my apartment block. They’re going to be doing that for the next three weeks. it’s not constant noise, but when they’re hammering ground.. that’s like an earth quake sound and feel. And it went off before 7 am today I think. I had planned on an hour or two more. Oh well. It’s 7 pm now and all quiet. I’d rather they did the heavy pounding around noon. You don’t want a heavy pounding too early in the morning. Should I shut up now? I think I should shut up now.
6/8 2024
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Big day of downtowning for me today. Off to the doctor’s office first. A quick blood test, hopefully it should come back all good. My blood pressure is perfect. And all my own blood sugar level measurements have been good, so hooves crossed that’s as it should be.
After that I had some business with my dad. He had asked for my help gettnig some photos taken. The city has put up some elephant sculptures around town, and he really wanted some photos taken. He CAN take photos on his phone, but he doesn’t know how to get them to the computer. I don’t know anything about smartphones, I suppose he must have a USB cable iwth it or something. Anyway, I was happy to take some photos for him. I’ll talk more about that later and show you one.
We also stopped by a hardware store, because I need a new fluorescent light tube for my bathroom. Unfortunately we didn’t get one though. I have an old armature, and it can’t use LED tubes. And that’s all they had. I think you can get an LED starter to fix it, but I’ll have to do some more research I gues. The lady in the store wasn’t a whole lot of help.
After all that we went back to my parents’ place where I had to look at their printer. it’s been out of commision for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to fit it. In fact I broke it completely. Whoops. Well I figured I could be a little rough with it, since I was pretty sure it would have to be replaced anyway. It’s an old one, they’ve had someone else look at it, and fixing it was just beyond me. I hate when I can’t fix their tech problems, I know they depend on me for some of that stuff. it’s just hard when it’s problem with things I am not familiar with. Like printers and smartphones. My low vision makes it really hard to deal with new stuff.
Now I’ll have to try help them get a new printer. I hope we can get the same make and model so they know how to use it, but that’s probably asking for too much. We’ll have to see how it goes.
I am really tired now. Too much time out in crowded places. And working on my parents’ computer is really hard on my eyes since it’s not set up for my needs. Just transferring the photos from my camera took almost 10 minutes, it takes 30 seconds on my own pc. And now my legs and back are messed up from all the walking and awkward sitting and bending and positions.
I need some soup.
I really prefer living life in my own bubble. I hate when i I am forced to get out in the real world. Bubble boy is getting upset!
7/8 2024
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Here are some photos from our little trip downtown. Dad with the elephant.
It’s funny, it was only within the last few years that I found out that my dad loves elephants. I don’t know how long he’s felt like that, but it took me by surprise when he told me some years ago. Don’t know why I never realised that. Elephants are his goats, I suppose. Goats are easier to sit with, though. And their berries are more manageable.
Anyway. One of the activities my dad has done at the dementia support center he goes to has been to make elephant clay figures. Made in clay and glazed. He gave one of them to me and I have it here in my apartment, it will be a treasured keepsake in the future.
But when the city put up these elephant sculptures around town he wanted to get some photos taken. I took a bunch of pics, hope some of them turned out okay. When you hire a blind photographer you gotta take what you get.
Beautiful sunny day for it too. A few hours after I got home I could hear the thunder bowling outside, rivaling the building foundation laying from earlier. Somewhat like the elephant kids who dance upstairs in the morning sometimes.
Funnily enough the book I’m currently reading is The Elephant Vanishes, another collection of short stories from Haruki Murakami. So far, not very elephant centric though.
Anyway, it was nice to get downtown with dad. I’m not a very sociable person, I’m not good at just spending time with humans, even family. And it takes a lot out of me. Been a long time since I walked around downtown too. When I was younger I’d sometimes take the bus down there, the shopping streets, the cathedral. These days I usually only go as far as my doc’s office. Suppose it’s nice to get a view of the world once in a while, before going back to the bubble.

7/8 2024
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Good goat times today. A cloudy day, but the sun broke through now and then. Good to be back amongst goats, instead of humans. Much more my comfort zone. Well, I’ll allow Jeanette in the bubble. And we had some sweet visitors, a cute lil boy running around the pen. Mostly interested in the feathers though. But that was all good fun.
Got home and did an hour twentyfive on the bike. So I’m quite worn down now. I can feel all that walking around downtown in my legs, uses different muscles than the biking. Time to unwind now.
8/8 2024
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Just hanging out with Lady Sky.

8/8 2024
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ese bake

8/8 2024
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Sky and Luna out grazing.

8/8 2024
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goatlog

9/8 2024
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Well, my dad’s had a rough day. He was over here earlier, but he’d fallen in the bus when the driver made a sudden start. And just now he called, back home but he fell AGAIN in the bus. So now he’s heading off to the hospital to get checked. He sounded fairly okay, but it’s obviously not good. He just got over that concussion he got recently, and he passed out while at a friend’s place a couple of weeks ago I think it was.
He’s staying active and getting out pretty much every day I think, but he’s gotta be careful. I worry about him. Thank you to everyone for the comments on the elephant photos by the way, he appreciates everyone getting to see them.
9/8 2024
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Thanks everyone for the concern about my dad. I just talked to him on the phone. He’s still at the hospital. He’s had x-rays done, and still has to go through some checks. I think he’s okay, other than pain from the fall(s). Hopefully nothing broken or any head trauma. It’s 9.30 pm now, unless there are serious updates I probably won’t hear any news until tomorrow. It would be nice if he could go home tonight, but I don’t know if they’ll let him go. Maybe better to spend the night at the hospital anyway, if that’s possible. We’ll see. Hopefully no complications.
9/8 2024
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My dad is back home and doing okay, under the circumstances. He’s hurting from the falls and may have some slight concussion. But no broken limbs or serious injuries. So now he just has to heal up. Exercise it away, the doc says. Well, hope he takes it easy. Thank you everyone for the concern and kindness. One day a day, for us all.
Some of you asked for a picture of the elephant sculpture he made for me a while ago. Here it is. Not a hood photo, it’s hard to capture it with the shiny glaze, but it’s a lovely elephant figure, made with love and care. Just don’t tell the goats, I don’t want the to get jealous.

10/8 2024
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Got an hour thirtyfive on the bike today. Still chuggalugging at it. I’m not going to give up on the exercising, even if I’m relaxing a little on the diet. Gotta find that balance between staying healthy and staying happy. Well, as happy as a chronically depressed prince turned into a toad can be, wait I’ve said too much. Quack.
10/8 2024
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This is a moustached puffbird, in case you were wondering.
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10/8 2024
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11/8 2024
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Siesta time is the besta time.

11/8 2024
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Hey, Sky made it up on the biggest log too. Good going, girl.

11/8 2024
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That’s all for now.