Good goat times today.
The forecast promised massive rain. Thankfully that seems to have fallen before I left the house. We got a little rain, and I got a little moist while walking home. But mostly it was a lovely sunny day.
I brought peaches for the goats. I think that’s the first time ever. Why did I bring them peaches? Because I thought they were apples. The peaches, not the goats. Haha. Last shopping trip I thought I was buying red apples. Guess I bought peaches. When I packed to leave this morning I thought ‘oh these apples have gone really bad, they are super soft’. Nope, just peaches. Haha. A quick google search of ‘can goats eat peaches’ later I headed out the door. And the goats loooved the peaches. Yum yum. Maybe it’s because they are so soft and easy to eat. It was a big sticky smooshy peach fest.
Other fun developments, but I’ll have save the for photo posts. And I am not actually feeling great. Tummy problems in the morning and while at the goats I started feeling a bit woozy. And carrying my load of Pepsi Maxes home I felt weaker than normal and my back hurting a whole lot. Not sure if I’m coming down with something or ate something bad or it’s just hypochondria. Very tired now in any case.
Oh and Keiko, I just checked the tracking on your package and after two weeks of no updates it seems like it went from ireland to New York! So it went from America to Ireland and back to America?! I wonder if it’s being returned or if they’ll ship it to Denmark now. Weird.
31/7 2023
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Hey hey! Bella remembered how to shake hoof! She’s not as good as Luna, she is a lot more focused on the treat than on the trick. But she did it, she does it. She we got three hoofshakers. That’s fun.

31/7 2023
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Today’s funny happenstance… I got my face chewed off by a goat.
More or less. Haha. I am sure you all remember how I loved when Mia would give me smooches. I have been missing those so much. Well I got some smooches from Luna today. It’s not quite teh same. She is not as gentle as Mia. She uses teeth. Okay there weren’t so much smooches as they were Luna trying to eat my face. Literally gnawing on my chin. It didn’t really feel too pleasant at times. But it was just too much fun. She’s such a hoot. I couldn’t help myself from giving her treats when she did it which made her keep doing it. So I’ll probably have to get used to having my face chewed regularly now. But it’s kinda smoochy at times so I guess I’ll take it.
It was so special with Mia, the way I could make kissy noises at her and she’d lift her head up and give me kissies. Sigh.
At least i don’t have a wife so I don’t have to come home and give awkward explanations about why I have teeth marks on my face.

31/7 2023
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Good goat times today. The rain came, the rain came down on me. Not quite the skyfall that the forecast promised, but a steady downpour most of the time I was out. Luckily I brought my rain coat! Yes, I’m a smart boy.
So the time was spent inside, listening to the rain and hanging out with the goat crew.
We did get some visitors. A little kindergarten group, a man and 4-5 kids. Because of the rain the goats didn’t want to come out of course. The man called up to me and asked if they could come in and say hi. I said sure and they came up to the goat house and the kids got to pet the goats. Mostly Sky, and Luna for a little. A sweet little visit. “Best experience of the day” the man said and thanked me. As they were leaving I heard him say to the kids “We were so lucky that man was there, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to see the goats”. I was happy to give them a sweet little goat time.
And I am feeling considerably better today. But still pretty tired. I almost fell asleep sitting with Luna in my lap. I may actually have dozed off for a minute, not sure. But I managed to collect myself so I could enjoy Luna slowly falling asleep in my lap. She started out crawling around on me. Then settled down and watched the rain while chewing her cud. Then she stopped chewing and her breathing slowed down. And she turned her head and layed it aginst my chest and went completely still, other than twitching eyelids. So very sweet. I’m going to miss that when she gets too old to do it. There’s just something very touching about the trust and acceptance you feel. Goats are always on guard, any sound or sight can alarm them. It is a special feeling when they let their guard down like that.
1/8 2023
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Sweet sweet Luna, taking a lap nap. This is after she chewed my face off of course.

1/8 2023
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Soo tired. And Luna too.

1/8 2023
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Sky watching the rain. She usually does that when it rains, stands there and looks out. I guess the kids have that youthful energy, they’d rather mess about and bug the human or eat stuff.

1/8 2023
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Okay, I better head to bed. I am feeling tired. Very tired. Way more than i ought to be at. I definitely feel like there’s something wrong with my system. Although other than feeling tired I’m feeling okay. I did have a really bad taste in my mouth a couple of days ago. Like.. a really bitter, gross taste. It seems to have gone away with some heavy brushing of teeth and tongue the last couple of days. Mostly. It made me wonder if I could have covid, isn’t that one of the symptoms? Haha okay I will stop being hypochondriac. At least for the next 8ish hours. No promises when I get up again.
1/8 2023
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goatlog

2/8 2023
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You kids better watch out!

2/8 2023
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Good goat times today. Another day with heavy rain, but luckily most of that fell before it was time for me to go goating. So it kept pretty much dry while I was out. However, the ground was wet and muddy so the goats decided it was a good day to stay indoors mostly. There was a bit of cabin fever too. Lots of bleating and headbutting and some humping and snorting. Lil Luna tried to mount bigger Bella a couple of times with surprised me and made me laugh. She’s a hoot. Bella got her back though. I had gotten off the chair for a bit and suddenly both of the minis were up on it. And it didn’t take long before Bella sent Luna flying. She tumbled down on the floor and rolled around and tumbled further off the house floor onto the ground outside and onto her back. You know the kind of bucking goats do when they’re on their back with their legs up in the air sometimes? It can look a bit scary, like they’re going to break their own back with the bucking. I was worried for a second that Luna might be hurt, but she got right up and was fine. Phew.
Speaking of scares, later on something spooked the goats real good. We had settled down to relax but then something triggered them. Sky first, she went out and started staring at the far side of the pen. She’s always the one most on alert. The others followed after her. that was the ncie thing about it, they huddle up together when they sense danger. There’s some flock unity there which I’m happy to see. But the goats were not happy. I don’t know what it was. I went over there to see if I couldn see anything, but nothing there that a human eye could detect. Well. I mean, not that my eyes are detecting much anyway. But yeah, they stood there and watched like the abominable snowman had wandered through the pen. I went down to the bigger pen to try and distract them, and they followed me, but they were still freaked and they ran over to the platform, the steep one, and went up on that. Like housewives in an old cartoon, eek a mouse! Maybe they felt safer up on the platform. Still staring back at the other pen. I never did find out what was wrong. There was a lot of birdsong going on, and there’s one bird call that they don’t like. Mia especially was very troubled by it. Sky sometimes is too, although not always. Maybe it was that. There was some human music in the distance at some point. And some people walking by behind the goat house at one point. Don’t know if it was any of that. But I have rarely seen them that spooked. Maybe the fox was around? I don’t know. I went back up to the goat house but they would not follow me. I tried hiding, usually if I go out of sight they’ll come running. Nope. I dragged out greens I was saving to later. Nothing. I called and clicked my tongue. Ignoreland. I went into the storage room and got some of their goat feed and rattled the cup around and put some out in their bowls. Nada. Eventually I did get them to come back with some treats, but by the time I had to go they were still on edge. Hopefully they were just being silly, goats can be quite sensitive to change and sound and things. Good thing they aren’t fainting goats or I’d have had to get a stretcher and carry them around.
3/8 2023
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A united front. Alarmed goats.

3/8 2023
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Luna, busy with breakfast. She seems to like getting down in that position to eat from the bowls. I should try it with the soup pot some day. Bytheway I was just Xing on TwiX how I love soup so much that I just dive right in and start eating. I don’t wait for it to cool down. No wonder I get my mouth burned all the time.
The only thing I’ll miss when Jeanette comes back from vacation next week is feeding the goats their breakfast in the morning. That’s always fun.

3/8 2023
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It takes a lot of beauty sleep to be as pretty as Sky.

3/8 2023
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Dang, i felt like having a Waldorf Salad, but we’re fresh out of waldorfs.
3/8 2023
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Hah, I dreamt that I met Jack Black and I asked him if I took the video of the goats eating peaches and put his Peaches song on it and posted it on youtube would it get taken down?And he said it would. Darn.
4/8 2023
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goatlog

4/8 2023
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4/8 2023
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Red Sonja likes breakfast too.
She’s pretty funny, when I give fruit to they goats she will often come running, sometimes trying to peck the fruit out of my hand if I hold it out for one of the goats. Henrietta isn’t as pro-active, but will go for stuff that falls on the ground too.

4/8 2023
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This was funny when i was young and spry.
Now it’s super relatable.
Other than the fact that I can’t dunk and no one wants to have sex with me.

4/8 2023
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I know it’s partially an optical illusion because of the angle, but THOSE KIDS ARE GETTING TOO BIG. Bella looks twice as big as Sky this will not stand

4/8 2023
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Hahaha. I probably shouldn’t even post this picture, it makes me look like a weirdo. But hey, in my defense. I am.
It just makes me laugh. The way Sky and Bella are in the background looking at us, like a couple of jealous girls watching their friend making out the popular jock at the dance.
Okay okay too weird, I know. It’s perfectly innocent. Luna is just trying to eat my face, like a bear who caught the forest ranger after he dipped his face in honey.
Okay zokay. I think I need to sleep.

4/8 2023
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We’re into August now, can you believe it. Time flies when you’re busy falling out of a tall building.
Anyway, just went and looked at a grocery delivery site, the biggest in Denmark. Since my supermarket will close at the end of the month. I think the delivery thing looks promising, to a point. There’s a minimum delivery amount and I don’t like having people coming to my place. So I don’t think I’ll be getting all my groceries like that. But Im figuring if I get a huge Pepsi Max delivery (plus a few things) once a month. Then I will be able to do my weekly grocery shoppings either in the smaller discount grocery store that is still going to be open in the shopping center next door, or in the store that Jeanette showed me close to here. If I don’t have to lug all those sodas around then doing the other shopping in the other places should be fine, that’s mostly bread and vegetables and fruits really. And you know some cake and there coughcough. But yeah. Even if my supermarket didn’t close, I think the Pepsi delivery would be a good idea. Because I drink at least a 1½ liter bottle every day so… hauling all that around is tiring. I don’t mind paying a bit of a delivery charge to not have to do that.
A bonus point is that the delivery site offers flourballs. Those are always hard to find, especially in summer. My dad, always happy to do all he can to help, has been scouring markets downtown to find a place where we could get them, and I do think he found a place. But being able to order them online would be a help too.
I’m waiting to get a confirmation back from the site that they deliver to the front door also in buildings with multiple floors. Because I don’t want to order 30 big bottles of Pepsi an then have to go down to the curb and drag all that up. But assuming I get confirmation of that then I think I will be using that site and then hopefully be able to get my daily stuff okay from the remaining local stores.
So hooves crossed that will be okay. I wonder if they would deliver treats straight to the goat pen.. better not let the kids near my credit card…
5/8 2023
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It’s not easy getting both kids in the shot with me, at least without it being a blurry mess because they don’t stand still for two seconds.

5/8 2023
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Luna! Behave yourself! Sheesh.
5/8 2023
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I don’t have four horsemen of the apocalypse, but I do have three goatriders who will rain destruction on your treat budget.

5/8 2023
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Lunakisses
5/8 2023
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Eye eye, captn.

6/8 2023
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goatlog

6/8 2023
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I love a good goat circus. Send in the goats. They’re.. already..
6/8 2023
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“Hey I was gonna eat that!”. Sorry, Sky. The hay is bedding for Bella now.

6/8 2023
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That’s all for now.

Good goat times today. Rained overnight, but almost no rain while I was out. Almost. I miss heat. And if the heat comes back I’ll miss the cool. So it goes.
The goats are going well. Seems like we have survived the first week of our nightmarish ordeal. Jeanette’s vacation, I mean. They all seem to be doing fine. And they make my heart swell and my frown turn upside down. Love having Luna crawling around on me. Bella trying to knock her down. Sky looking up at me with giant saucer eyes like “y u no give me treat, I saw u give tem treat”. Yeah yea. It’s happened a couple of times recently that people have thought Sky was pregnant. I don’t think she’s missing any treats.
24/7 2023
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Poor Sky, bereft of treats. Skin and bones. The Hunger Games, Goat Edition. Etc.

23/7 2023
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Twitter has been rebranded to.. X. I could go on for ages about the stupidity. But I have to say, this is now my favourite tweet that I have ever tweeted, I almost wish I paid for premium twitter so I could use enough characters to copy the entire parrot sketch, but I ‘m still pretty dang proud of myself.
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Lasse Plume
@djaliplume·
10m
This social media platform is no more!
It has ceased to be! It’s expired and gone to meet its maker! It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace!
It’s kicked the bucket, it’s shuffled off its mortal coil and joined the bleedin choir invisible!
This is an EX TWITTER
#TwitterX
24/7 2023
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Here is Sky on the mountain. I was surprised she went up there. It rained last night and they don’t like going on the mountain when the ground is wet. But she went up there, and stood there and scouted for a long time. Like 10ish minutes. Looking out over the sports field beyond the pen. I almost got the thought that she could be looking for Milo… but I don’t think so. I think goats live in the moment and adapt, and Sky has been a lot happier since the kids arrived. But who knows. Who knows how their memory works. They definitely remember stuff. They remember which of my pockets is the one that has treat. They recognise different people and react to them. Who knows.
It was hard not to think about whether somewhere far-ish away was Milo standing somewhere, looking out of a landscape thinking of Sky? Sigh. I hope he’s doing okay. I feel so guilty about it all. But I can allow myself to think too much about it or I will just break apart.
I wonder if somewhere above, on a heavily weighted down cloud, are Mia and Mio and countless others looking down and watching us. Who knows. Who knows what we see when our eyes drift out of focus and see beyond what is there.
I sure do love Sky. From the tiny chubby chipmunk to the underdog running to safety under the goat house to merrily speeding up and own the mountain with her brother to now the big top goat, large (but not pregnant) and in charge.

24/7 2023
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Good goat times today. Almost no rain again today. Almost. I can see in the news that it’s been a super hot summer, diastrously so in some places right now. But it’s been the wettest July ever in Denmark apparently. Moist.
Anyway, the goats are good. They don’t like the rain, but they like the greens that grow. Green green grows the lawn. Well fertilized too.
We had nice visitors today. A little family, refugees I think. The husband and wife spoke slightly broken, but understandable English. Asked if this was private property or if it was okay for them to be there. Totally fine. They had a couple of highly energetic boys. And I think a younger kid in a stroller. The man asked about the goats, how old they were. And I think he asked if Sky was pregnant too haha. They were trying to get the goats to come over to the fence, but the goats were distracted by the prospects of treats from the guy in the pen. I picked up Luna and took her over to the fence so they could get some closeup time. The man asked if it was okay to use his phone and I said sure. So he got some nice pictures or video of his kids petting the goats, and I think they tried feeding them some grass. Lots of giggles, some from the boys too. The man said thank you so much afterwards. A little later the boys came into the pen and got some time real up close with the goats. Tried feeding them some orange peels, but they didn’t really want any. It was all lovely and good, until one of the boys picked up a stick and started chasing the hens. So we had to tell him that was not okay. And the parents were very sorry about it. Other than that the boys were sweet and good with the goats. And when the family left, the man again thanked me ‘a thousand times’. Hopefully they got some nice memories, and hopefully the kids learned a bit about appropriate behaviour with the animals.
Now someone teach Bella that it’s not appropriate to butt me in the leg when I walk by her. She’s doing it because she wants treats, I don’t think it’s general behaviour to worry about. She certainly didn’t do any of it when the boys were in the pen. But I think I may bring a water bottle and try to teach her not to do it. don’t want to take any risks of problems later on.
It’s not like she’s attacking or anything. I’ll just be walking away from her and then feel some little bumping against my lower leg and she’ll be there like “I wasn’t done getting treats, mister!”. Yeah, troublemaker alright.
25/7 2023
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Having soup now, as I like after a cold day with goats.
It was almost my last. I just inhaled a flourball and it got stuck in my throat. Now thankfully I gagged it up and was able to breathe. So it’s all good. Although, it would have been a good way to go. He died doing what he loved. Eating soup after spending time with goats. Put that on my headstone.
Anyway, back to the soup in progress.
25/7 2023
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Breakfast time for the goat crew. If there’s one upside to Jeanette being away it’s that I get to give them them their breakfast, which is always fun. And they dig in like I do into a pot of soup.

25/7 2023
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Hey, if you’re on the bluesky social media thing, add me. I’m djaliplume there too. I am not sure how much I am going to use it. Doesn’t seem great for accessibility. But hey, I’m in the cloud now. Maybe I should get an account for Sky.
Thank you for the invite, Jen!
25/7 2023
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Speaking of Sky, here she is hanging out with Big Red. Luna and Bella aren’t too fond of the feathers. I mean, they’re okay most of the time. But then now and then they’ll headbutt them away like ‘get outta here, this is goat territory’. The feathers just flap away and don’t seem too bothered.

25/7 2023
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Looks like Luna told Bella how nice it is to sit in the hay tub.

25/7 2023
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Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty human!

25/7 2023
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goatlog

26/7 2023
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Luna, knee-deep in breakfast.

26/7 2023
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I was planning to film a little with the goats. The goats had other plans.
26/7 2023
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By the way, in the video I just posted.. did you notice anything different?
I’ll give you a hint. New pants.
Yes. Rip pants. Rip ripped pants. I finally had to admit defeat and face the fact that these pants were bereft of life, shuffled their mortal coil, joined the choir invisible. These are ex pants.
It bums me out because I love them. That’s why I kept using them even as they fell apart. I’ve been walking around looking like a hobo. But I don’t care what people think. I hate change and I loved those pants. I really needed all the pockets. But they were literally falling apart, big tears at the feet and legs and butt. So I had to let them go.
Luckily I have another pair of the same kind. Just in black. I don’t like that so much, I always wear black shirts and it doesn’t looks as good with black pants I think, and all the goat hairs and mud spots show up more. But eh, as I said I don’t care what people think. They are great goating pants. That’s what counts to me.
But yes, RIP ripped pants. I have worn them for so long, they must have been on me while grandma was around. Maybe even back in Palle’s day. So many years. No wonder they were falling apart.
The only thing certain is everything changes.

26/7 2023
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Sleepyheads.

26/7 2023
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A video to go with the sleepy pic. I love the little dream twitches.
26/7 2023
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Good goat times today. Aaalmost no rain. Only a couple of drops. Some good sunshine, it was actually quite a lovely day.
And the littles were chatty. Bella and Luna bleating more than usual. Trying to talk me into giving them more food.
We had some nice visitors too. A group of kindergarterners or daycares. 4-5 adults and a bunch of kids. When they were approaching I heard one of the adults say to a kid “no, I don’t think that’s a policeman, I think it’s just a goatkeeper”. Haha. Officer Lasse on patrol. Investigating a Goat Theft rAisins. Well, the kids all had a good time I think. They found apples and picked grass and plants to feed the goats, and the goats were happily fed. I picked up Luna for some closeup time and I got the big tub over to the fence and Sky stood on it and got some attention. At one point she turned her back to the fence and the little girl who was trying to get her to eat some plant started brushing her tail with the plants. “I touched its butt” she gleefully announced. Haha. Good times.
27/7 2023
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Some of today’s visitors having fun with the goats.

27/7 2023
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Guess what I did today? Oh nothing, I just taught Bella to shake hoof.
Well, we’ll see if it sticks. She’s not quite as good as Luna, she’s more focused on the treat than on the hand. But she got decent at it after a bunch of repetitions. I hope she’ll remember how to do it. Would be fun to have all three of them doing it. Makes visitors happy too, like today when I shook with Sky in front of the kids.
Speaking of Sky, look at her there on the tub like “hey don’t forget about me”.

27/7 2023
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My facebox is being weird. Anyone else missing the menus on the left and right of their Facebook feeds? There’s usually stuff on both sides, like list of contacts on the right hand. Even on the goat page, it’s missing the page management stuff on the left. Not sure if it’s something with my setup. Things seem to be working okay, just missing stuff. Odd. Did my goats eat it?
27/7 2023
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goatlog

28/7 2023
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Tripod, meet Bella.
Tripod, meet ground.
At least my camera wasn’t on it this time.

28/7 2023
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The grass is always greener on the other side. And food always tastes better if you’re not supposed to have it.
Here’s Sky. Eating hay. From the tiny gap between the shelf and the wall. There’s hay in the hayfeeder. Fresh hay. in the hayfeeder that can be easily reached from ground level. BUT there’s a little gap between the shelf and the wall and through that you can reach some of the hay that’s being stored on the shelf.
There’s also some greenery on that shelf, being saved for later, but she couldn’t reach that. She was just eating hay. From the shelf. Instead of the hayfeeder. Oh goats.

28/7 2023
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Apparently the goats all got together and agreed that they should never ever eat from the hayfeeder from the ground. Here Luna is taking the harder route from above.

29/7 2023
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I feel like reading some Arthur C. Clarke. For a long time I have only really been ‘reading’ on my walks. I feel like I’m wasting my time a lot lately, when I’m not goating. Maybe I should… disappear into books. Maybe I just want to disappear.
I have had a lot more happier times lately, goat kids are such a joy. But even so there is still a lot of depression and sadness. And bad thoughts knocking on my skull, trying to get in. Sometimes with a sledgehammer. Sometimes it’s the personal things, like Milo and Mia and things I have never spoken about. And sometimes it’s the bigger picture, the whole world and everything that goes on. I know it’s kinda dumb to sit here in my own world and feel the entirery of suffering and pain and injustive, you can’t really take all that in and on yourself. It just feels so awful that humans have such capacity for greatness and yet we do so much bad. We all do. Some more than others. Anyway. You can’t fix everything. I can’t even fix myself.
So anyway, that was a ramble, but the originating thought remains. I think i’ll read some Arthur C. Clarke. I have my eye on The Songs From Distant Earth. There’s something fascinating about retro science fiction.
29/7 2023
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Another one from they hayfeeder files. Hey, Sky actually on the ground eating from it! Imagine that. And Bella is going from the top.

29/7 2023
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KAOS

29/7 2023
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I was testing out the zoom on my camera when a little buzzer buzzed in. Buzz in if you know the answer, if you don’t know the answer buzz in and be a chancer.

29/7 2023
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And for those of you who like goats, there’s Luna.

29/7 2023
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Sky is just resting her eyes!
Normally when she sits and relaxes she makes her little snoring/groaning sounds. Here she laid her head down on her hooves and stopped making those sounds. Must have dozed off. There’s a video of this live on the page any second. It’s very rare to see her like this.

29/7 2023
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goatlog

30/7 2023
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Well, it looks like I just made an executive decision to name our last redshirt Sonja. As in, Red Sonja. Who was played by Danish Brigitte Nielsen in the old movie of the same name. So, that’s Big Red Sonja and big white Henrietta Solo.
30/7 2023
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Luna is just resting her face.

30/7 2023
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A three goat salute to end the week.

30/7 2023
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That’s all for now.