Good goat times today. I am not feeling good though.
I know I’ve kept talking about dragging myself out despite not feeling well, but today that really was the case. My throat started hurting last night and tummy troubles. I wrapped my throat better in my blanket, that seemed to help. And emptied the tunny. I felt a bit better in the morning. But it was one of those ‘do I stay or do I go now’ things. I wanted to see the goats, and also I was out of vegetables. Which meant I wouldn’t be able to make soup. And I had a feeling I was going to need soup… so I decided to drag myself out the door and see how long I could make it at the goats and then go shopping. I felt fairly okay at the goats, stayed for a couple of hours which was nice. In hindsight I might should have stayed home. Now I am back home and my throat is hurting more (a lozenge helped for now though) and I’m feeling very tired and nauseated. I am starving but the thought of eating makes me want to throw up. Maybe I won’t be able to eat soup after all. D’oh!
In other news, my dad was sent to the hospital yesterday. He has corona. He’s back home and it sounds like he’s doing pretty okay. But I wonder now if he passed it on to me. He was visiting Friday. And it was not too long after that that he had his aphasia attack, or TIA. That lasted about a day, he was talknig normally Saturday, but he wasn’t feeling great, I think he said something about his chest too. Well on Sunday he got worse I guess and they werent to the er and he stayed there for a dayish. And he has the corona. I had a bit of a tingle in the throat the night before last and I mentioned feeling dizzy.. maybe dad had it brewing on Friday and passed it to me and I had it brewing for a couple of days. I don’t know. I also wondered if Jeanette might have passed her thing to me, although we didn’t se each other Thursday when I was last there, so the timing seems less plausible on that count.
But anyway. I’m not feeling super bad. Dad said I should call my doc, but you know me. If I have the rona or a flu or cold or stomach bug or whatever. Unless I start feeling dramatically worse, I just gotta get through it. This time I really do think I’ll have to stay home for the rest of the week… I really hope I’ll be okay by the weekend though. Mama is planning to make soup. You know I love mma’s homemade soup. The stuff I make is a weak substitute, I mean it fills my need but it’s not the same. So hopefully I can partake in the good stuff. I think whatever I have will get worse before it gets better, but right now it doesn’t feel like it’s anything especially serious. Hooves crossed.
Oh and the goats are good. We had some fun with treats and food and running around, them not me, and Jeanette and visitors and the feathers.
Now commence yelling at me in 3.. 2….1…..
11/12 2023
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You know, I’m not sure I’m comfortable with santa just checking is list twice. He’s super old, his eyesight must be terrible, like Lasse levels terrible. Is there even a system in place if feel like he’s is short-changing you? Is there somewhere you can go to object? What are your options if you feel you have unfairly been placed on the naughty list? He’s got all those elves, couldn’t one of them get a law degree and go over the whole thing?
Anyway. That’s just the delirium talking. Thank yuo everyone for the concern and advice. I just napped for a few hours. My throat is definitely worse nad I’m tired and kind of woozy. Not feeling super bad though, it feels like a regular head cold or flu or whatever. I’m going to try to eat something and see how I feel in the morning.
11/12 2023
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Hello hi goodmorning. Checking in. Still not feeling good, but not super bad. I had a big pot of soup last night and I enjoyed it very much. I was worried if it would stay in, but after eating that the nausea seems to have gone away. At least for now. So I think I’ll be having some more soup today thankyouverymuch. My throat is hurting and I’m feeling tired and woozy, but could be worse. Hanging in there. Napping and souping is the plan for the day.
12/12 2023
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Ugh. I’m starting to think this whole being sick thing isn’t actually a nice thing.
Feeling very tired and weak. Lifting arms hard. Typing restricted. Words.. slowing.. down. Must…get crystal.. to general Mendoza before the resistance…
No, i’m fine. Not really, but it’s fine. Probably. I have spent most of the day sleeping or resting. In my chair. Which has bent my back out of shape and now I’m in more pain. Hooray. My head is woozy and my throat hurts. Hopefully it’s going to start getting better soon. Getting pretty tired of it all. Hope you’re all doing okay out there. I don’t really have the energy to keep up with anything.
12/12 2023
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Ugh. Feeling quite rotten. Feels like things are still escalating instead of gettin better. I had been coughing a lil bit but last night it got a lot worse. And my throat hurts a lot. Coughing and throat hurting, bad combination. Makes you scared to swallow. Feeling tired and woozy and having some body aches too, not horribly, but noticeable. My back problematic too. Interesting my nose hasn’t been plugged at all. Tiny bit of mucus in my throat maybe. I wonder if that’s going to be the next step in the escalation, getting all snotty. Or if I’m over the hump and will start to get better now. It’s only been a couple of days haha. Sorry about all the whining. But this is my place to shine, I mean whine. It’s all that’s on my mind right now.
I’m trying to remember to drink a lot of water. I got me some powerade, I’m not sure if you have that in America/other countries, or if it’s a DAnish thing. It’s basically a gatorade ripoff. I shouldn’t really be drinking it since it has too much sugar. But I figure for a couple of days it will probably be ok, maybe it’ll help keep me hydrated.
How did I get powerade when I am stuck inside? Well today I got my Pepsi delivery. I had made the schedule a couple of weeks ago. I thought about canceling or postponing it, but I figured I’m feeling okay enough to open the door and get the bags inside. And I was, that part wasn’t too bad. It was lugging the 34 bottles of 1½ litre pepsis in and distributed that was a bit hard. But it went ok. I sure got enough Pepsi now. Didn’t get through the last batch yet.
Unfortunately they were not albe to deliver me the four packs of flourballs that I also ordered. I need those for my soup. I think my parents have a few bags in their freezer, they’ve been helping me get them because they can be hard to find. All stores have the meatballs w. flourballs packs, but the flourballs only packs are rare. Anyway.
I made a pot of soup last night, but I wasn’t able to eat it all. Not often I leave half a pot of soup uneaten. I should drink some more acv and maybe some cmammomile tea for the throat.
I was hoping to go see the goats tomorrow, but there’s no way that’s happening. I am doubting that I’ll make the weekend soup date with the parents too. But we’ll see how I feel by then.
I complain a lot, but it’s not feeling like any worse than the normal flu or throat infection or whatever you get from time to time. I think the covid isn’t too serious there these days, could still be that.
One day a dayyyy
13/12 2023
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Well don’t say I never listen. I took the advice of gargling with salt water. And it felt really good. Didn’t heal my throat, but it helped for a while. I think I’m going to do it again in a bit. Throat is hurting considerably again. It may have to come off.
13/12 2023
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Well, that was an unexpected phone call.
Got a call from a journalist at one of Denmark’s biggest tabloid newspapers. I guess I’m still pretty woozy, I wasn’t sure what he was talking about, he said something about “today’s big police action”. Eep. Well, I told him I didn’t know anything and wasn’t interested in participating. And hung up. And went online to see what the holy heck was going on. And yes, it seems police all over Denmark has made several arrests, it’s not completely clear yet I think but it’s something to do with preparation of terrorist attacks. Yikes. And there have been arrests in my neighbourhood. I am not sure if the journalist was just calling everyone in the whole neighbourhood or if there have been arrests in my building or.. Maybe I should have listened more to what he had to say before hanging up. Hah. Well. This is obviously not good. Or, I guess it’s good that they have apparently caught the attack before it happened. Sigh. I iive in a place with a lot of immigrants and problems, it’s not unsual to see us in the media. But this is pretty darn scary. There’s a press conference in an hour’s time, I guess we’ll get more news then. It makes me sad. Humans make me sad. I wish everyone was as naive and peace loving as me, ay ay. What’s the point of fighting for madeup shit, what’s the point of fighting at all. imagine all the people, war is over if you want it, etc.
Well hopefuly they stopped it and will get to the bottom of it.
As for me, I am finally starting to feel I’m over the worst of the sickness. Starting to get better, I think. Hooves crossed. Still tired and needing painkillers, it’s the best I’ve felt since Monday.
What a world.
14/12 2023
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Hello goodmorning hello, would you like a goat photo? Here’s the Lunabug. I have been so pooped that I haven’t had the strength to look at the vids and pics from Monday. In hindsight I should have stayed home then, but who knows if it would have made a difference.
I think I’m on the road to feeling better, nose got a bit clogged last night, but throat pain is less severe. Still tired, but able to stay fairly awake during the day and sleep during the night. Working back towards some kind of normalcy again. Here’s to hoping.

15/12 2023
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Fell into a rabbit hole of reading wikipedia articles about old dictators and wars and history and shrt. Ceausescu and Mussolini and Lenin and Stalin and Karl Marx and the soviet union and.. human history is crazy. I remember learning about it in school of course, but looking at it now it almost seems like it can’t be real, that stuff must be made up. All this war and suffering. Or what about William Adams and people traveling on ships and they didn’t have GPS, imagine how vast the world must have been when you couldn’t just pick up a phone and google street view wherever you are. There’s something deeply fascinating about the idea of not knowing, the wide open space waiting to be filled in. What was America like back then, talking from whitey’s perspective, it’s just fascinating to imagine coming to a whole new continent, I remember being fascinated by the Ingalls books when I was a kid, I can’t remember if I read them myself or if my mom read them to me, maybe bit of both. Little House On The Prairie was the famous one, but the one that preceeded it was litthe house… in the woods? Something like that. It’s just such a fascinating thought, to go to a new world and be part of its origin and you have to build everything and it’s not like minecraft wherw you can just reboot the computer.
Anyway. The thing that really struck me was that Hitler tested his cyanide pills on his own dog. I knew the guy was a monster, but wow. He was a vegetarian and a failed painter and he killed his own dog to make sure his cyanide pills were good and then he ended up shooting himself instead.

15/12 2023
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Okay, maybe this is more relevant to my demographic. It’s goats!

15/12 2023
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Remember goatlogs? Here’s a goatlog.

16/12 2023
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Bella and the butt.

16/12 2023
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I got good news and I got bad news.
The bad news is that I didn’t make it to my parents to have soup with the family today.
The good news is that I’m a spoiled baby and I got soup delivered to me.
Hooray! Shoutout to my mother for making her famous homemade soup, and shoutout to my dad for coming over with a couple of jugs of soup for me. I’ll be enjoying that for the next 3-4 days. Good stuff. Hashtag blessed, hashtag cough.
16/12 2023
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Here’s a Sky yawn caught on camera. Unfortunately the lighting wasn’t good, but I love goat yawns.
Only today I have really started feeling well enough to go through video and photos from the goat trip on Monday. All week I have basically done nothing but sit in my chair and watch youtube videos and drift in and out of sleep. I had thought to myself I thought “oh I’ll be home sick, what a good chance to watch some movies I’ve been meaning to watch”. Nope. Anything requiring a mental capacity higher than “watch me play this commodore 64 game” was just beyond me. Even watching a movie was just too demanding. But I’m feeling much better, tired and coughing but throat not hurting and my head fairly there.

16/12 2023
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Checking in with some nicely posed goats. Bella is making sure you get her good side.
Tired and coughing, but feeling fairly ok. Putting some soup on now.

17/12 2023
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That’s all for now.

Good goat times today. Another snow day. It snowed quite a bit yesterday, so there was fresh snow on the ground. But not any coming down, which made it a lot more manageable. Still cold of course. But I was dressed better today. Last time Jeanette looked at my coat and remarked that it didn’t warm much. Which surprised me a little because, well it’s my winter coat. But then I realised I have another winter coat. With a good deal more insulation. Tried that on today. It’s shorter, which I don’t like. But it seems a fair bit warmer. And I brought chemical warmers for the hands. All in all the cold was easier to deal with today. My back on the other hand was a wreck right form the start. I think wading through the snow, in the places it hadn’t been cleared, aggravated it. It’s been a painful day. I will need to take some time to recover now.
But the goats were good. They don’t mind the snow so much when it’s on the ground. Well, Sky isn’t a fan of it. But I got the kids running around for a bit. And they were all out in the snow a lot. Generally it’s much nicer to have light, snowy days than gloomy rainy days. Nice to be able to have light and be outside, instead of cooped up in the dark.
Jeanette is still sick, but she’s feeling okay enough to come in the morning and make sure the goats are okay and have what they need, before going home again early. I really appreciate her devotion to doing the best for the goats.
Now I think I need a hot soup injection. I was exhausted today, tired out quick, in pain. I could use some spring.
4/12 2023
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Looks like Luna’s got her christmas decorations up!
Haha, actually Jeanette brought pine from home. Her neighbour has a christmas tree farm and of course now is the time they are shipping out trees, so she picked up some trimmings for the goats. Usually they have to wait till after christmas to get pine goodies. So that was a nice surprise.
And yes, I got fresh pine breath smoochies from Luna later on. Awsh.

4/12 2023
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Two times I caught Bella and one time Luna peeing in the snow and then turning around and, well I hope just smelling what they’d left behind! Bella did the curly lip thing after smelling the yellow snow. Sheesh. Kids these days.

4/12 2023
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Bella and the yellow snow.
5/12 2023
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Fell asleep and napped in front of the computer. Dreamt that I had a ringing in my ears and that my right eye became sighted. It felt so real. I woke up. Ringing in my ears and… well no sight in my right eye, of course. The ringing is still there. Actually, it’s just a tone. It’s tinnitus. I get that sometimes, it usually goes away more or less pretty fast. Hope this will too.
I just want to sleep more. A lot.
5/12 2023
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It’s going to be one helluva Festivus this year, my list of grievances is longer than the list of phonecalls I’ve made that went straight to Kristen Bell’s voicemail.
Badumptish.
5/12 2023
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Don’t forget, no matter how dark it gets, the sun is up there somewhere trying to break through.

5/12 2023
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I don’t mean to get all jolly about it, but I loved this song when I was a kid. I looked forward to it every year, for some reason our local tv station would show it around christmas time. Not that there’s a reason not to show it, but it’s not exactly local programming. Anyhoo. Do Americans know Alas Smith & Jones? Loved their whole show when I was a kid. Especially the head to head pieces.
Sorry, that nap left me too post happy.

5/12 2023
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goatlog

6/12 2023
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Breakfast in the snow.

6/12 2023
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An old favourite. It must be amazing to be able to make sound like that. Can you imagine. The pure wizardry and alchemy it must take. I never made it to be a writer or musician, but I suppose goat photographer is something. Something with goats.

6/12 2023
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Working on the pine trimmings.

6/12 2023
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Good goat times today. Another snowday today, but it felt like things are starting to thaw. Bit of sleet coming down. The snow is less fun when it’s packed and icy and wet. Nicer when it’s fluffy. We’ll see how long it lasts now. Just hanging out with the goats. Taking it easy. No Jeanette today, I guess she went home before I got there. We did get visitors from the neighbouring school. They knew me by name. Talked abit with one of the ladies. They were delighted to see the goats eating pine. They asked if the goats wanted trees after christmas, so hopefully we’ll be getting a fe from them after the holidays. Very good.
Home and feeling pretty wrecked right now. I need to dig out some of the exercises I have done previously for my back, because right now it is excruciating pain when I come home. No fun.
7/12 2023
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Please excuse me while i hug the Sky.

7/12 2023
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Sorry about the low quality image, but this is how I found the goats yesterday. I was a little concerned because I didn’t see them and there was no reaction when I opened the gate, normally that sound would eilicit bleats and running goats. But then I walked up to the house and looked in and there they all 3 were sitting together, not ready to get out of bed. I sympathize. I am happy that they sit together like a group.

8/12 2023
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Sky looks good in the snow.

8/12 2023
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Flash photography is always flattering, so says Bella and The Ghost Of Whiter Shade Of Pale.

8/12 2023
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My dad had an aphasia attack. If that’s what it’s called, attack. Unable to speak properly. He was actually visiting me yesterday and seemed fine. Just talked to him on the phone now and he said he was just recovering from it. So it was less than a day. I am not sure how bad it was, he said he couldn’t talk. Not sure if he could write, or understand what was being said to him. He sounded fine on the phone, other than sounding tired. He’s just been to the doctor, has more tests coming. I wish they’d gone to the ER or something when this happened though. I’m sure it’s connected to the alzheimers, but it van be symptoms of things like a stroke. It is scary anyway. I am feeling sad and scared. Also been feeling kind of dizza today, started before I talked to dad so it’s not a reaction to that. Maybe I didn’t sleep properly or something.
Going to grab a pot of soup.
9/12 2023
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Think goat thoughts.
And thank you for all your good thoughts.

9/12 2023
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goatlog

10/12 2023
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Bella and the yellow snow. Oh dear.
10/12 2023
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Love my Luna girl, even if she’s getting way too big.

10/12 2023
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That’s all for now.