Good goat times today. A tough day. The goats are good and it’s always great to be with them. I’m not in the best condition, though.
Started with a depressing dream about depression that left me yearning to stay in bed, stay under the covers, dream up something better.
But I got up and I got going. And a tough walk to the goats. The weaher has improved. It’s noticeably warmer now, above freezing. We had a lot of rain but most of it passed by is during the night. Lots of water and mud and patches of ices here and there. Not great. But the real problem is my shape. Gone pearshaped. I’m really not doing so well. My back is killing me. But worse is I can barely walk for a minute without being out of breath. The last month-ish I have been in my chair so much, I haven’t been going out as much as usualy because of the sickness, the holidays, the weather, the depression. I can really feel it now. That walk I used to be able to take in 20-25 minutes before I hurt my back, 30ish minutes after. Now it feels like a marathon. I was telling Jeanette about it when I got there, and she said she could tell I was out of breath. After warning me about the worst patches of ice.
Yeah, I really need to get in better shape. Hopefully you will soon see yet another in the long list of “So I started exercising again” posts. Because yeah the last time it didn’t really take. I also got back in the habit of eating candy and bad stuff over the holidays. As I usually do. So I gotta kick that again too.
Lots of stuff to work on. I just need to be able to walk to the goats without feeling like I’m going to have a heart attack. I need to be able to move the tubs or other things around without having to sit straight back down to gather strength.
Who knows, maybe I got some longhaul covid in me, I never did get tasted for that because I am so smart s m r t I mean s m a r t. Anyway, at least that would be some kind of excuse. But I still need to get back to exercising and to eat better. I might need to take a day or two to recoop now, we’ll see. I need to do better fro the goats, I haven’t been there for them as much as I want to. After that heroic trek through the aftermath of the snowpocalypse I have not been running on full strength.
Wish me luck!
Always good to spend time with the goats. They’re not happy about the muddy and icy ground of course. They’d prefer the snow I think, once it’s solid on the ground. But they’re chugging along twards the spring, as are we all. We had some sweet visitors today, they had to navigate the ice and mud to come up to the goat house because they arrived just when I had put out breakfast for the goats, and you know they’re not going to leave breakfast to go through mud and ice to come say hello. But the visitors we’re happy to come up to the goats and everyone had a good time.
I’m going to sit and stare blankly into the void for a minute or two, then get soup cooking. Maybe I should pop some painkillers into the flourballs.
We’re already three weeks into January, sheesh time flies when you’re rambling on Facebox.
22/1 2024
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Jeanette working to clear some of the ice one the walkway from the goat house. Hacking it away with a shovel. She got some of it. The forecast looks like more rainy weather above freezing, so it will probably all be gone soon.
There will still be snow pics and vids on the goat page for a day or two, for those that don’t know, the posts on the page are always a little delayed, because I have to come home and sort and edit it all, which can take a while if there’s a lot and I’m pooped. The stuff I post here is (mostly) up to date. So that’s why there’s a bunch of snow on the goat page and not so much here. The more you now.

22/1 2024
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Jeanette found this pallet and dragged it to the goat house, so I could do something with it inside. Good thing she did the lugging, I would have blown a fuse if I’d done it in my condition today.
And here is another demonstration of what I mentioned recently, how Bella is real quick to eye and opportunity if you put a tub or a chair or anything in a place where she can use it to reach something higher up. Here using hte pallet for al ittle boost to reach some bark on that tree, though there’s not much left anyway.

22/1 2024
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Slept for about 12 hours. Not feeling great. Got a text from my housing org saying that my heat may be off briefly because of a burst pipe somewhere. Everything’s coming up Milhouse! At least it’s not freezng. But it’s still cold, for me. I am feeling pretty defeated, but you know. One day a day. Gonna edit some goat footage and watch some Step By Step. Not only downloading all the old SNL episodes, but also teh complete SBS series, because nostalgia is a powerful drug. I love the codeman, man. Yeah buddy.
I just want to sleep.
23/1 2024
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Here is what I did with the pallet. Yeah nothing revolutionary, just some extra height to the steps up to the platform. In hindsigt, I think the higher step should be horizonstal instead of vertical, I’ll probably change that. I wish we had some more tiles. I think I’m going to ask Jeanette if they are expensive, maybe I can pay for a handful out of my own pocket, to have a good step up on both sides instead of keepign the tub there. We’ll see. I do think it was good to take the tiles and put them in the ground outside, it has made the goats more willing to go out when the ground is wet.
OH and also, put the camera down Bella wants treats.

23/1 2024
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For the premium subscribers, a preview of a future video.
Nothing like a vicious goat attack to lift the mood.
23/1 2024
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Hey hey, thank you so much Traci Stone for the wonderful card! Beautiful family photos. Traci is one of those oldtimey friends that I have seen grow up and become parents and it always makes me happy and makes me feel like the world is worth fighting for, because heck my friends have kids that are going to have to live in it so we better take care of it, and them.
Thank you, Tracer!

23/1 2024
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It wasn’t until fairly recently that it occured to me that Sky’s beard is coming down in two strands kinda like Luna’s.

24/1 2024
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I’m not sure what Sky is doing to Bella, but I think we need to call HR. Wait, that would GR I guess.

24/1 2024
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Good goat times today. Managed to drag myself out again today. Even though I just wanted to stay under the blankets… but it’s good to get out. And it was a lovely day. A beautiful sunny one. Although the morning was dark and with a strong, cold wind. The remnants of another big storm passing through overnight. But shortly after I got to the goats, the winds started dying down. And then the sune came out and it was quite lovely. The goats went out in the smaller pen and were snacking on branches and stuff. It’ll be nice when the green grows again. There’s still water and mud abounds, we’ve had so rain. But today it was good. Nice visitors too. We had some visitors that we haven’t seen in a while, but I’ll cliffhanger that for a photo later. And we had visitors from the neighbour school who brought a christmas tree for the goats! Finally a new tree, and the goats dove in and started munching on it. While Jeanette and the school visitors went to the campfire Jeanette had lit earlier. I don’t know if they had smores,but they had hot chocolate. Lucky beans!
I’m just glad I got out. And I felt a bit better than I did Monday, my condition a little better. Let’s hope it’s progress.
25/1 2024
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Look who was allowed outside today!
No, I don’t mean Jeanette. We don’t keep her locked up. But the feathers! We got the chick squad out. Jeanette let them out while she was outside working. They have been stuck in their coop since we lost one to the fox in December. I have really missed having them around. It didn’t take too long before they came into the goat pen and hung out with us. I hope Jeanette will keep letting them out now and then. She was telling one of the visitors that it was like being out with a group of kindergarteners, constantly making headcounts to make sure you’re not missing one. We’ll see how it goes.
I am not sure if you can make it out on the photo, but the’re some smoke in the background from the campfire Jeanette lit up. She came and told me in the morning not to worry if I smelled smoke, she was lighting up the fire site.

25/1 2024
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Not just good goat times today. Also good exercise times today. Yes, believe it or not. After I came home from the goats I jumped on my exercise bike. I had this plan, either brilliant or insane, that if I was already up and active, maybe I’d be motivated and capable of getting on the bike. So for the first time in a couple of months I got on my bike and I managed 42ish minutes, which isn’t bad considering what incredlbly bad shape I have fallen into. Brilliant and insane? Ask me tomorrow and we’ll see if I have any legs left. After all the walking and being outside, it might not have been smart to strain my legs further. But hey, I did something. We’ll see how it turns out, if I can keep it up, if I can walk two steps tomorrow. I just need to get in a shape where I can walk to the goats without feeling like I’m having a heart attack. Then we’ll take it from there.
25/1 2024
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Aw. I was happy to hang out with Red Sonja again. I missed having her come running to join us. She was a like a fourth goat, excited when I handed out snacks. Also good to see the sun again. I hope we’ll be spending a lot more time with Sonja and the sun in the future.

25/1 2024
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For the premium subscribers, here’s a little Behind The Scenes video. First we have the prep work, when I start messing around with my backpack the kids get real excited, they always think I’m too slow getting the snacks out.
And then a series of 3 shorts clips where I’m sitting with Luna in my lap. But the thing to pay attention to is Bella. See how she noticed the camera on the tripod and then starts going in for the kid. And I have to hurriedly get Luna off my lap so I can run interference. I can’t afford to lose another camera! It’s just kinda funny how you can see the moment when Bella notices the tripod and you can practically hear the gears starting to turn in her head. Must… destroy… tripod…
26/1 2024
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We’ve had a ton of rain lately, and a ton of snow has melted. But now we got lakefront property, so that’s something.

26/1 2024
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The goats working on the new christmas tree. The school neighbours had said before christmas that they’d bring over their tree, maybe even more than one. Glad they delivered!

26/1 2024
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goatlog

27/1 2024
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Goat butt parade in the sunshine.

27/1 2024
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I love a sunny Sky.

28/1 2024
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I don’t want to call the guy from The Mighty Mighty Bosstones a liar, but I find it really hard to believe that he’s never knocked on wood. What, he grew up in a neighbourhood where all the doors were made of metal? He always rang the doorbell, ALWAYS?! I don’t but it. Seems fishy to me.
28/1 2024
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Good goat times today. Dragged myself out into the cold again. We’ve had a bit more snow, but not too much. But we’ve had rain and freezing. So it’s a lot more icy now. Difficult to walk around in, where it’s not cleared. And a horrible cold wind. Right in the facepie. Temperature was -2C/28F, but I don’t know what the windchill was. Brutally cold. Jeanette said my face was all red when I got here. I’d had tears streaming down my face too, it was not fun. And I was feeling tired and hurting, and out of breath. I had to sit on a bench halfway to the playground to take a break in the walk, I don’t usually have to do that. It wasn’t a fun morning.
But much better when I was with the goats. Out of the wind. Having fun. We even got sunshine later in the day.
The goats did some fun running around. I think Bella did one of her super twists again, I’ll have to check the footage later, but it looked like she was spinning around fast again.
We had several groups of visitors too. One group that recognised me and knew my name and had stuff to tell me. And another group had never been there before and they were asking, what even is this place. And Jeanette told them all about it and took them around to see the animals. She is always great with visitors. And the goats got petted and snacksed.
Now I am home and ready for soup. Aching body. It always takes a lot out of me just to get out in the real world, but in these conditions it’s even worse. Hopefully it won’t take me a week to recover again, but right now I feel like I’d lose a boxing match with a mouse.
15/1 2024
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It was so cold that Jeanette came and put the blanket on me again. Bella was more concerned about the treats.

15/1 2024
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Well would you look at that. We got all three goats out at the far end of the big pen today. I was kind of shocked when Sky came running out with us. She mostly stays up on the goat house hill and just bleats at us when we go into the bigger pen. MAYBE she’ll come down to get some treats and then go back on the hill. But today we got all three out on the far side. Maybe it was because the snow was more icy now, a bit easier to walk in for her I think. But still surprising.

15/1 2024
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Hey hey! Thank you very much to Debbie Wilkins and Elisabeth Smith for the lovely cards! It’s like Christmas come very very very (…) very early! Haha. To be fair, we had the holidays and a giant snowstorm and the postal service only delivers mail to us twice a week, so chances of being late are always good. But I appreciate that you thought of me, thank you kindly!

16/1 2024
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I just had a lovely long nap. Now I am cooking up a pot of soup. The rockstar life is not for everyone, but if you can handle it then it’s the way to go.
16/1 2024
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I hired a new assistant director to help improve the quality of my goat videos. Here’s Luna just checking to make sure the camera is working as intended. Yup we’re all good, carry on!
16/1 2024
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Got a Pepsi delivery scheduled for tomorrow.
Just saw there’s a new snowstorm coming and the policy is warning unneccessary driving tomorrow. FFFFFF ork.
Well, it doesn’t look like it will be as big as the huge one we just had. And obviously my Pepsi delivery is very very necessary.
Hooves crossed it’ll get here. I did get a text earlier from the company giving an expected delivery time, so they must be planning to deliver.
Can we has spring soon?
16/1 2024
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Huzzah! I got my Pepsi delivery. The drought is averted.
I got a text message about an hour before the scheduled delivery and I immediately thought “Oh no, is this the cancellation?”. But it was just an advisory that they were ‘facing challenges due to the weather’ and my delivery could be up to half an hour late. Turns out they made it just within the original timeframe they’d given. And I got my load of pepsi and flourballs, plus some other assorted stuff.
So that’s a relief. Not that I couldn’t have survived if it had been cancelled, but more because that would mean I’d probably have to deal with customer service and stuff. I prefer not to deal with humans, as you know by now, surely.
17/1 2024
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Jeanette brought in a box with extra hay for the goats. Of course, the box didn’t stand much a chance. I’m pretty sure Bella wasn’t eating it. Mmm, cardboard!

17/1 2024
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Jonas Bjerre has a new band. This pleases me. Mew was one of the formative bands of my growing upper.
Sounds pretty Mewy. It’s hard to escape with that distinct vocal.

17/1 2024
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“No I’m not doing anythnig.. just… gotta check this suspicious backpack for contraband”.
Bella is real good at finding opportunities. Here I dragged the tub in to stand inside, and of course she realised she could get to the storage shelf above. You saw the video the other day where I’d put the chair under the tree and she got up and ate bark from higher on the tree. When I move stuff around she’s good at taking advantage.

18/1 2024
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Nothing breaks like the mind, when you put enough pressure on it.
18/1 2024
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Do Lassedroids dream of electric goats?
18/1 2024
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We hav an other yellow snow advisory from resident weathergoat Bella.

19/1 2024
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I can’t remember if I mentioned that I found some really nice sugarfree blueberry soda. It works really well as ice for my Pepsi. I drink my pepsi straight out of a plastic jug. I got two jugs in rotation, I always keep one in my freezer with something frozen in it. I used to spend way too much time with icecube trays. Icecubes are fun but it just gets annoying. Getting a plastic mug out of the freezer with a bottom of something frozen, that works great. As the Pepsi from the fridge warms up, it melts the frozen stuff in the jug and it’s all kept cold. I usually use another soda for the ice. Faxe Kondy Free. That taste goes well with the Pepsi when they mix. But the blueberry is really good. Is there a Blujeberry flavoured Pepsi Max? I know there’s Lime and sometimes Mango, both of which I like on occasion. But the straight Pepsi Max with frozen blueberry soda, mmm that’s good stuff. Hit me up Pepsi Co if you want to collab on a Pepsi Bluerry Max variant. I am available.
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19/1 2024
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A little sampler of goats having fun in the snow. Ending with a nother dazzling Bella spinning move. She’s got skills! Also it’s funny how it’s always Luna trying to hump Bella. You’d think with Bella being the dominant one she’d be the one doing the humping, but it’s always Luna I think. Maybe it’s because Luna is trying to prove herself. Silly snootiepies. Full snowfun video is up on the goat page now if you want more fun.
19/1 2024
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My facebook was seriously glitched out for a while. Seems to be working now? I guess I’ll see if this posts. Seems to have been a problem with my account, because I saw other people commenting and posting. I couldn’t, and I couldn’t get into the goat page stuff either. Well here’s to hoping, and goodnight everyone.
19/1 2024
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My facebox seems to be working properly, for now. So that’s good. I am soup cooking, so that’s good. Happy birthday to my brother today, I will toast him with my soup.
And here is Luna with a typical “do you have treats for me” neck-stretch.

20/1 2024
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Snootypies.

20/1 2024
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goatlog

21/1 2024
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A little light falling on Bella.

21/1 2024
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That’s all for now.