Good goat times today. The weather is getting cooler now. But we got some nice sunshine
Bella’s leg seems to be improving, as far as I can tell. But it’s not back to normal. She seems happy enough, though. Tail up, eating, bleating and pooping. And more mobile than last week. It’s really frustrating that we can’t get the vet to see her, I can tell Jeanette is unhappy about it too. Hopefully we can get a hold of them soon, and hopefully Bella’s leg keeps improving.
As always lately, we had sweet visitors seeing the goats. We didn’t just get visitors today though, but also new permanent residents. I haven’t actually met them yet. But Jeanette went out and got 4 new chickens for us. It has always been the plan to get more, after we lost a couple to the fox. Jeanette just wanted to wait until after summer vacation. Today they arrived, but they were taken straight to the chicken coop. I guess just to make sure they imprint on that as their home? Or something like that. In any case, I should be seeing them soon enough. I wonder what Luna will say, she’s still a bit after Henrietta and Solo. She’ll be vastly outnumbered now! Hah. But hopefully that will all go well, and they will settle ni nicely. I must admit I’m a little conflicted about it, just because I have really enjoyed getting to know Hernietta Solo and Red Sonja more, getting closer with them. I don’t know what the newbies look like, but if we’re going to have a bunch of redshirts running around again I probably won’t be able to recognise Sonja anymore. And if over time they act like she does, well maybe I won’t be able to pick her out of the crowd at all. It’s so funny now with Henrietta going wandering on trips and Sonja running to spend time with us. I hope I will be able to differentiate them from the newbies. Heck, when with Bella and Luna I can b arely tell them apart sometimes… at least until I get a good look. Or they talk, they have quite different voices.
Anyway, hopefully the new Squawk Squad will be a success for all, we’ll see how they adapt.
28/8 2023
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Sky and Bella on the platform. I gotta say, I am really happy with how that turned out. Funny how random things just happen sometimes. We had to take the hayholder down. I saw those boards standing against a building, been there the whole time we have been at this place I think. And now it’s just a perfect platform, so much better to be on than the single board on top of the hayholder, and without the safety concerns.
Oh and is Bella bigger than Sky now? She’s taller, right? Sky is still heavier, got a more stocky build. NOBODY SAY THE P WORD!

28/8 2023
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Luna that little bug managed to escape not once but twice today. When I opened the gat to get in the goat pen in the morning and when I opened the gate to get out when I was leaving. Both times she squeezed out. And the other day troublemaker Bella didn’t let a borked leg stop her from getting out. They’re like snipers at the gate, ready to pounce when you open it. Thankfully when they do get out they don’t really know what to do, so they’re pretty easy to get scooped back inside.

28/8 2023
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Happy 125th to Pepsi, the cause of and cure for all life’s problems.
I will celebrate by drinking Pepsi Max. Skål!
28/8 2023
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Good goat times today. No escapes, even though there was an attempt. I got the gate closed fast enough to Luna, I think, only got her snout out.
I met the new feathers too. Jeanette took me into the coop to see them. It’s very dark in there, so I had a hard time seeing anything. I took a flash photo, we’ll see if that turned out useable. Four new hens, apparently four different breeds. Not sure if that will mean I can tell them apart. Time will tell. For now, they are ‘chickens’. Too scared to come out. Jeanette tried hand feeding them some goodies, but I don’t think they took any. They just gotta get used to their new home and life. Meanwhile Henrietta Solo and Red Sonja are running around having fun. Did you know that Sonja is pronounced the same in Danish and English? I think so anyway, pretty much.
Lots of visitors, lots of sitting around relaxing, lots of treats and bleats. I think Bella’s leg continues to improve, but we won’t be able to get a hold of the vet until Monday. Thank goodness it’s not a life threatening emergency is all I can say… Not happy with the situation though.
I was happy with Luna giving me kissies. I manage to sort of get her to do it when I made smoochy noises at her. We’ll see if that sticks and how well she’ll do it if she does, but it did remind me a little of Mia… Sigh.
29/8 2023
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No, the picture inside the chicken coop did not turn out well. But here you can see three of the new four feathers. One if white, but I think it looks pretty different from Henrietta Solo so that should be okay. We’ll have to see about the rest, if they ever gather up the courage to go outside and join us.

29/8 2023
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Duude., can I have some more peanuts? I got the munchies.
Okay, Bella is just tired, not high. I was also tired today. Didn’t sleep well last night, so I very nearly dozed off sitting on the bench with the kids. Sky was up on her platform, which made Jeanette ask if she was offended about something since she wasn’t sitting with us, haha.

29/8 2023
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When you thought you found the food buckets, but what you found was the water buckets.

30/8 2023
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Family time.
30/8 2023
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Good goat times today. A rain day. Lots of rain, all day. So it was a day inside. No visitors in the rain, and Jeanette’s day off. So we were mostly by ourselves, other than Jesper Handyman saying hi. And of course the feathers joined us. The oldfeathers, the newfeathers are still staying in the chicken coop it seems. Don’t know if they are still getting used to things, or they just didn’t want to come out in the rain. I gave Henrietta a helping hand. I saw her on the floor looking up at the hay shelf. I remember when the food barrel stood under the shelf she’d jump up on it and onwards up on the shelf. And sometimes when my chair stands there she’ll use that. I am not entirely sure if she can flap her way up there without something to help. But I picked her up and lifted her up there. She likes to sit in the hay there. Good little nest i suppose.
Other than that, just relaxing and listening to the rain, handing out goodies and cuddles. I feel like Bella’s leg has continued to improve. She seemed a lot more mobile today. Not back to normal, but hopefully not far off.
Last day of summer in Denmark. The forecast doesn’t look too bad for the first days of fall, though. Hope it stays reasonably warm for a while. I don’t look forward to the cold again…
31/8 2023
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The goats inside. You can see my rain coat hanging over the side of the shelf. Because I’m smart and bring appropriate clothing of the weather. Eventually.

31/8 2023
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Oh my! Luna has spent so much time with the hens that she has started laying eggs! Alert the media! An egglaying goat!
Ok ok. I may have had a little hand in it. Not the egglaying, but the eggmoving. I found the eggs lying underneath the platform. Looking at my photos from the morning, I can see they were theren’t there when I arrived. So, either Henrietta or Sonja laid them there while I was probably sitting in my chair right next to them. Haha. Well you gotta crack a few jokes when you’re making an omelette.

31/8 2023
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This is where I found the eggs originally. At first I thought maybe it was apples or something else that someone had thrown in for the goats, but then i realised that it was a couple of eggs.

31/8 2023
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Oh no, giant Luna monster please don’t eat tiny Bella!!

1/9 2023
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Aw man, i wish there was a Danish Cheers.
, careful what you wish for..

1/9 2023
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goatlog

1/9 2023
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Did someone order a box of Bellas? I forgot to mention, she jumped up on my back yesterday. I think that’s the first time i’ve had a goat standing no my back since.. Nuller? I guess. I was sitting on the floor, and she got up with ther front hooves on my back, which actually felt pretty good. I was just starting to enjoy my goat massage, then she jumped up all the way and stood on my back. Only for about 15-20 seconds probably, then she jumepd off and onto the chair which was standing next to me. I miss having goats standing on my back.. I know I shouldn’t do it, since I have such bad back problems. My back has gotten better, by the way. If i do some exercises and stretches I can function fairly well. But after being out for a few hours it does get pretty bad again often when i’m walking home. Anyway. Maybe Bella’s Back Massage is the solution.
She also made me laugh when she let out a big fart. Not while standing on me, luckily. She was standing on the platform. It made me augh though because it was such a big one. Normally if the goats pass wind it’s a quick little toot. But this sounded like a big fat guy sitting in a comfy chair in front of his computer.. not that I’d known what that sounds like…

1/9 2023
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Three if by soup.
2/9 2023
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I think we need a new Luna unit, this one has a bad motivator.

2/9 2023
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I love sleepy goats.

3/9 2023
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Hay tastes better from the top, it seems!
When I fill up the hayrack I always tug as much hay out through the sides of the rack as possible, so it’s easier to get to, especially for the little kids. Luna usually gets up like this when eating hay, though.

3/9 2023
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The oldsquawks. Red Sonja and Henrietta Solo. We’ll see if the newfeathers make an appearance next week.

3/9 2023
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And a tender moment with Sky and Luna.

3/9 2023
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That’s all for now.

Good goat times today. A lovely, summer day. The heat was a bit too humid, but it’s nice to have some sunny days, before fall falls on us. Several rounds of visitors from teh new neighbour school. Seems like they really enjoy coming over and spending time at the playground, and with the goats. And the goats enjoy the attention, especially because it means they get carrots. Yum yum.
Other than that, not too much going on. Lots of sitting down and relaxing together. I have to make the most of it now, while Luna is still small enough to sit in my lap. And while it’s warm enough for the goats to want to sit and relax. At least with the other groups of goats, when the weather gets cooler they don’t want to sit down so much. As it gets colder and wetter they preter for stay on their feet. So gotta enjoy it now.
I especially like when we all sit close together like a goat family. Some of the times Sky will sit a little apart. At least when we’re up in the goat house. When we’re down on the bench then she’ll sit on the tub of course and we’re together then. But when we sit in the goat house she’ll sometimes go into the bedroom and sit, or on the new platform in the back. Or she often likes to sit out on the hill. Today I was sitting with Luna in my lap and Bella in the haybox. And Sky came over to us. And in my head I was going “sit down with us, sit down with us, sit down with us”. And she started pawing the ground next to me and I thought ysss she’s going to sit. Then she stopped pawing the ground and started rubbing her butt on the wall. You know how Sky is, she did that for like 10 minutes. Haha slight exagerration. But thankfully when her rear was sufficiently scratched she pawed the ground some more and sat down with us. So I got to sit with all my three little ladies within hand reach. So sweet and relaxing.
21/8 2023
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Familly chillout.

21/8 2023
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The feathers are on board too.

21/8 2023
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Good goat times today. But a couple of bad things too. Both concerning the troublemaker Bella. First off, she smashed my camera. It’s dead, Jim. I had set it up on a tripod and yeah well you can see where this is going.. Bella pushed it over. It has survived that a few times, falling in the grass or on the ground. This time it fell face-first right into one of the pavement tiles. So that’s gone. Grrargh. I do have other cameras. But this is the second camera to get dead in a fairly short time. Not great. I may have to go out and buy a new one soon. Oh well.
The other thing is worse, though. Seems like Bella has hurt a leg. I noticed halfway through the day that she was limping around. Luna has had a problem with a leg too, but that seemed pretty minor. She was running around and putting weight on it. Bella was limping and having a hard time putting weight on it. So that’s not good. The problem is that the vet that the playground uses has been closed over the summer. Jeanette is trying to get in contact with them, but last I heard they hadn’t returned her calls yet. So that’s not good. But hopefully it’s nothing too serious and hopefully the vet will come by very soon, it’s time for their hoof trimming and I thought that might be the issue with Luna, but with Bella it seems more serious. Hopefully it’s not anything eriough, though. She seemed in good enough spirits and when we had kids in the pen (more visitors from the neighbouring scool today) she was running around to get carrots too.
We had a sweet moment later on when i was sitting on the bench with Luna and Bella. Sky had went and settled herself down on the platform behind the mountain. Well, Luna was climbing on me and bleated out. And Sky bleated back at her. And then Luna bleated back. And they bleated back and forth a few times. And then I heard the clippity clops of goat hooves on wood: And i could hear by the speed of it that it was Sky running down the ramp of the platform. And a few moments later she appeared coming around the mountain to join us. So that was pretty sweet, I guess Luna wanted Sky to join us. They were butting heads today those two though. I don’t know if it was because Bella was a little impaired that Luna thought she should try to move up in the hierarchy. Sky didn’t seem particularly threatened though. Luna was running around and going up in dramatic headbutts and Sky was just standing there and blocking like ‘yeah whatever’. And then to hammer home her point, she started humping up on Luna. No doubt who is in charge.
But send some healing thoughts to Bella if you can.
22/8 2023
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Well, that was a nice camera I used to have.
Another one for the *exasperated sigh* files.
It may look like the camera is just out of focus at the end. But it does no longer turn on. The lens is stuck, and I have tried real hard but it will not unstuck. So the camera no longer turns on.
22/8 2023
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goatlog

23/8 2023
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Twinsies. Who’s Arnie and who’s DeVito?

23/8 2023
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Me looking at anything that was made after the 90s.

23/8 2023
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Good goat times today. A lovely summery day. Don’t know how many more of those we’ll get. Soon we’ll move into the 9 months of dreary weather. Sigh. Better enjoy the sun while I can.
Still more visitors, looks like with the neighbouring school opened up there will b pretty much daily visits. I forgot to mention that one of the little girls that came visiting from the school was named Luna! She wasn’t there today, but she’s been a couple of times. As you can imagine it’s a big hit that we have a goat named Luna too. Although the human Luna is a little unsure of the goats. And the goat Luna just wishes they ‘d feed her.
Unfortunately Bella is still having problem with her leg. And Jeanette is having trouble getting a hold of the vet. She said she almost wanted to move to another vet, the problem is that it’s not easy finding vets in suburban Denmark who care for goats. And then there’s the fact that we’re a government institution, which means bugets and oversights and clearances and whatnot. But I sure hope it gets figured out soon, we need Bella to get looked at. She’s doing pretty okay, she seems happy enough and she doesn’t seem to be generally in pain or anything. She walks around with us. But it’s clear her right hind leg is not good, she does her best not to put weight on it. Sometimes when she wants to sit down it takes a little extra effort and time to get into a sitting position. I hate seeing her in discomfort. I still hope it’s nothing serious, but we really need the vet to look at it.
Lil troublemaker still tried to knock over my tripod a few times. Sheesh, I need goat insurance.
24/8 2023
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Sweet Bella. I sure hope your leg will be better soon.

24/8 2023
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I stopped by my old supermarket today, for the first time in ..a couple of weeks? Maybe. I had a couple of packages to pick up. Oh by the way, I have mentioned that one of the bad things about the supermarket closing is that the postal shop connected to it will go away too, and I was worried what would happen to my packages now. Well, thankfully a new postal shop has opened right next door, in a kiosk that was already handlnig GLAS packages. So now both my postal and GLAS packages will go there, and there will be no negative change to my package routine. And after I had that talk with the mailman, I haven’t had problems with them leaving packages at my door when i’m not home either. So, the postal situation seems fine for now.
It was a little sad seeing my supermarket now, though. Outside the signs proclaimed “3 days until final closing”. Many of the shelves already complately empty. Surprisingly they did have fresh tomatoes, which they haven’t had the last few times I went there. But it’s sad that it’s closing. After more than a decade of doing all my shopping there. But, the new grocery store is working okay for me so far. I am thankful Jeanette told me about it. They have the stuff I need and it’s only a tiny detour on my way home from the goats, the overall trip may actually be a little faster than going to the old supermarket. So, looks like things are working out okay. I was really bummed about the closing and worried about how my life would be affected, but hooves crossed it seems to not be too bad at all.
Sometimes seeing the worst in everything isn’t necessary after all. Not that I’m going to stop…
24/8 2023
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Family time.

x24/8 2023
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Another one in the “exasperated sigh” series. This was filmed Monday, so before the camera got broked. This was just a practice run from Bella.
25/8 2023
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WARNING star wars post ahead.
So, I watched the first two episodes of Ahsoka. My thoughts?
I enjoyed it! Good, entertaining stuff. I will say, I don’t know how interesting it will be if you haven’t watched animated shows or read the books. If you don’t know who Ahsoka or Ezra or Sabine or Thrawn is, well you might not be that invested in all of this. But if you’re into all that stuff, this really cool. It’s neat seeing so much stuff from the cartoons in live action. And I remain in my belief that casting Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka is one of the best things in Star Wars. I just love her.
Only two things disappointed me. One is we didn’t get to see Thrawn yet. I’m dying to see our Lars Mikkelsen in blueface. Smurf it up!
And two, I wish the lothcat had pushed the starmap globe off the table.
But good start, looking forward to more.
26/8 2023
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good morning, ghoulies

26/8 2023
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Caught in the act! Don’t let her sweet, innocent face fool you. Bella is waging a war against tripids. If Earth ever gets invaded by Martians in giant tripod war machines, just send Bella to the front.

26/8 2023
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the nineties were the besties
26/8 2023
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.It seems a little on the nose that Bob Barker passes away on National Dog Day.
I know the name, but I did not know him, other than snippes read in passing. From what I can see, he was extremely well loved. So rest in peace, sir.
26/8 2023
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I spy with my one eye, Bella and Luna, but no Sky.

26/8 2023
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We have been at the new new playground for a year and ten days. I am happy that we have Jeanette and a lot of space. But we lost a lot over the year…

26/8 2023
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goatlog

27/8 2023
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Its a dangerous life in the goat pen.
The second one got me pretty good.
I have never been worried about a goat ever willfully headbutting me in the face. But their depth perception isn’t always great, so you gotta be careful if you’re in the line of fire when they try to hit another goat. Better add aspirin to my treatbag.
27/8 2023
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The kids, relaxing.

27/8 2023
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That’s all for now.