I do not like the look of that weather forecast.

Looks like the temperatures will be below zero for the foreseeable future. We have had a really mild winter so far. I have enjoyed that. I will not enjoy freezing temperatures.

Thank goodness for the scarf I got for christmas from Traci. It really helped keep me warm when I went up to see the goats. And it even survived without getting chewn to bits. Mio did have a sniff and a little nibble, but that was all. Everyone survived.

Speaking of the goats, I think we’ll have a new visitor soon. Alice mentioned a new buck stopping by. We’ll have 4½ big goats, at least temporarily. That’ll be something. And just imagine if all three ladies had triplets. Can you imagine 9 little goat kids running around? That would be a little bit of heaven. Although it would also be a lot of kids to have to say goodbye to again. But that’s a ways off yet anyway. For now I will just enjoy the company of the good goats I have. I am still very happy that we got to keep Bob. I’m having a lot of fun with him. I can still manage to grab him and have him sit in my lap. He’s not always too pleased with it, but if I give him really good neck scratches then he’ll sit back and enjoy it. Won’t be long before he’s too big for it though. I already have a sore toe from when Magnethe decided to stand on it. I don’t think goats know how heavy they really are.

Tippy toes.

Back to the clementines.

I had a pretty good day yesterday. I went up and spent some time with the goats. Always fun.

Little video: youtube.com/watch?v=-qeIRt627-4

I was trying to teach Bob to put his hoof on my hand and the propel himself up in the air. He sort of did it spontaneously a couple of times so I tried to get him to do it again and give him raisins for it. He didn’t quite get it, but he did get even more enthusiastic about jumping up on me, which you can see a bit of in the video.

I had such a lovely time that I almost forgot to be cold. Of course as soon as I left the playground the cold started creeping in. I always like to just wash my hands at the outdoor tap when I leave, to get the worst goat hair and dirt off me. Makes for cold, cold fingers though.

When I got back home I warmed up a pot of mama’s leftover soup from Sunday. Mmm mm. That’s the stuff. Warms the body and the soul. I should bring a thermos bottle of it out with me in the cold. I bet that would be even better than thermal underwear.

In other news, DOWN WITH SOPA. Yeah. Boo. To protest SOPA I’m probably not going to be blogging again for oh several days. Oh me oh my. That should send a message.