Time for the weekly roundup of goat pictures and videos. And I’m afraid there are rather a lot of pictures this time. I’m terribly sorry. I’ll try to restrain myself in the future.

Although, probably I won’t.

We start off with some pictures of Sir Bobs-alot

His face is starting to get that adult goat look. He’s not a cuddly little baby anymore. Although the woolly neck makes him nice and soft. When the sun does peek out he gets really warm and cozy in that fur coat. The white socks and white tip-o-the-tail are still adorable. And he has had the pleasure of not having to wear a collar lately. He is usually allowed to walk around on his own even when some of the other goats are on a leash. So I guess they decided that there’s no reason for him to wear a collar if he isn’t being tied down anyway. I like that. I like that he gets to roam. He usually stays close to the flock anyway. Without Preben to accompany him he doesn’t seem to want to go up into the residential block anymore. At least I haven’t seen him go up there on his own.

On to a whole bunch of pictures of little Mia. She must be just about 2 months old now, according to my calculations.

I love the two of them together like that. Mia and mama Mio. She’s such a little sweetheart and she makes me very happy. I have trained her pretty well to jump up on my back. And when the day gets late and the sun comes out and warms things up I like to sit and have her relax in my lap while she chews her cud and all is right in the world.

Next up pictures of Mio the mother.

Still the sweetest, gentlest goat. Around people. Around the other goats she can be quite bossy now! And when they’re in the fold and she senses there are people inside the stable or on the other side of the building she’ll baah in the hopes of dinner time coming around. She has a very characteristic bleat, quite different from the other goats. It’s like she’s permanently a little hoarse or her vocal chords are a little damaged. Or something like that. Like she can’t quite let go and baah the way the others do. Sweet, though.

And now some pictures of Kamel, who is a goat and not a camel at all.

Those folded ears get me every time. It’s so adorable. Sigrid was talking to one of the kids about it the other day. “I have no idea how it happened, it’s not like it’s something we have done to her!” she said. It’s so precious. One of my good Facebook friends, Shannon, is a little in love with those ears too. And she has promised to draw me a picture of Kamel from one of the photos. So I’m looking forward to that.

And now it’s Preben’s turn.

He has some bulging eyes, very clear and focused at times. As you can see on the last one he still enjoys his foot rubs. He’ll put his hoof on me and insist I rub it. And then when I’m done he’ll put up his other leg so I can do the other one.

He is quite a handful now, though. When we got him he was the most well-behaven buck I’d ever met. But not anymore. Not around me, anyway. He is huffing and puffing and challenging me. I don’t know if he is starting to see me as a rival buck or if he’s just excited because the girls are in heat or what. He is smelling a lot worse too and chasing the ladies around a lot more. And when I walk around in the fold he’ll come after me. Maybe it’s because when I stand up I appear taller so he thinks I’m jumping up and trying to butt heads? But I’m not a goat! I don’t have horns. I can’t butt heads with him. When I sit down he doesn’t seem to mind me. Mostly. Although as you’ll see in one of the videos there was one day when he was all agitated and trying to murder me. More or less. I can still handle him, but it does make things a little more complicated. I have to watch out when I’m walking around, otherwise I’ll end up being charged out of nowhere. He’s extremely strong and has those majestic horns. I gotta be careful. Sigrid told me that he had butted her on the rear when she was bending over to pick something up the other day too. But it wasn’t hard or anything. So I’m not sure if I’m the only one he’s really after. Maybe it’s because I spend so much time sitting with the goats that he just sees me as another goat. I would kind of like that, since being a goat is the best thing I can imagine. On the other hand, maybe he’s just a jerk! I still love him, though. Even though I have to go to the supermarket stinking like buck after I leave the playground…

One final picture:

This was taken by Bodil. She wanted to get a picture of me with Mia on my back. But of course the other goats immediately interfered and demanded attention. But Bodil was rather amused by this picture of my head popping up behind a sea of goats. I could probably make a nice Where’s Waldo picture with me in a flock of goats.

Good times. Now for a couple of videos.

First one:

You can see a little of Preben’s reactions to me. And general cuteness. A boy came into the fold and wanted to pet Mia, but she can be hard to catch sometimes!

Second video:

There’s more of Preben’s huffing and puffing. And he even tries to ram me. I had to restrain him a little. Scratching him seemed to calm him down, temporarily. Later on he gets a foot rub and behaves much nicer. And there’s more cute stuff with Mia and the others of course.

And that’s all for this week. Hope you enjoyed my goaty friends. I know I do.

Time for the weekly roundup of goat pictures and videos. I guess that’s pretty much what’s left of the blog now. I still feel a little bad about that. Sometimes I miss the hold days. Of mucho bloggings. But oh well. At least there are still goats.

Speaking of which…

Bob checking out the tree. I like his eye in this picture. They’re not always easy to catch.

Mia, looks like she just popped up into the picture. Like a piece of toast that’s done.

I like lifting Mia up in the air, won’t be too long before she’s too heavy for that now.

I really like this picture. Little Mia and big mama Mio side by side.

And the two of them together again.

Scratching Bob’s nose and the side of his face. He quite enjoyed it. Not always they like to be scratched on the face. But it’s sweet when they do.

Aw the Bobster and I. Seeing eye to eye.

I love when the goats roll their heads around. He got that from his mama. Kamel does it too. I’m not sure if Mio does it as well. I’ll have to keep a lookout and find out.

Those ears! Those ears. It’s like they have starch in them or something.

Progress report on the horns, seen somewhat from the side.

Sweetness followed.

I love spending time like this, with Mia dancing around on my back.

Raisins for Mia. She loves them. If I want to lure her up on my back (when she doesn’t do it on her own) I’ll lean over and then I’ll stick up my arm and hold a raisin out. She’ll usually get the idea and jump up and stand on my back and get the raisin.

They rebuilt the goat fold, did I mention that? This is a view from afar. It’s the same place, it’s just considerably bigger now. Although a lot of it is mud, due to the season. It’ll be nice when the grass comes in though and the goats have all that space.

I stacked some boards and tree stumps to give the goats something to jump around on.

And I put branches there so they had something to gnaw at and duel with.

Now onto the videos.

First off is a music video I made of Mia. I was originally intending to have it cover all of her life, but it’s only a 4 minute song. So it ended up only covering the first week or so. Cute stuff set to music, that’s always good.

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Second:

Sitting on the bench in the new goat fold. Mia dancing around on my back and everyone having fun.

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Third:

I made a little agility course for the goats. And by that I mean I arranged some logs and wooden planks so the goats could jump and climb on them. I’m repeating myself now, I know. Anyway, cute stuff. At one point you can hear Bodil talking to some Chinese students that were visiting. In English. You can hear her talking about my special relationship with the goats. Sweet.

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Fourth and final:

More from the new fold. Mia dancing on my back. The Chinese students laughing. Goats climbing the boards and planks. Mia investigating some birds. I think they were crows? It sounded like they were crowing anyway.

It was quite a lovely day. At the end of it the sun even broke out and I sat on the bench while Mia dozed off in my lap and it was quite nice and almost summery. Sweet times.

In non-goat related news (because those things happen too, occasionaly) guess who finally passed 100 minutes on the exercise bike? I’ll give ypu a hint: it was me. The other day. For the first time I managed to go more than 100 minutes. The counter on the bike couldn’t fit 100:00 so it had to reset to 0:00. That was a cool feeling. Summer is over so the biking is less efficient and I’m less motivated. But I’m still going. I usually make it past the 60 minute mark now so that’s good. I would like to get up to 2 hours. Maybe in time for next summer. I have tricks that can make me last longer and sweat more and I’m really looking forward to employing them all for a whole, long summer. I think that will be good. Only… 5ish months. Erk. I miss you summer. Probably won’t be long before I have to start wearing thermal underwear again when I go see the goats. Stupid, poor circulation. I miss my body warmth.

Also, guess who spent about 500 dollars on a charity auction? Yeah, that was me too. I do regret it a little. I spent too much. But oh well, it’s for charity! That’s my mantra. And it was for memorabilia from my favourite TV show of all time. Lost. And hopefully I get some good karma from it.

Oh I also bought a power bar. To work out arm muscles. So… that’s exciting. Yeah. And that’s about all for now. Keep up the good work, folks.