And on the 16th day of the 6th month of the 2007tieth year did the skies open and the rain did fall. And it fell much. And for a long time. And forsooth did it soothe the warme Plumeth. Verily.

Yes, it rained. And quite nicely too. Good timing. Today was my day to feed the animals. If it had been last Saturday then it would have been heatwave and I would have been exhausted and burnt out. Not that working in the rain is great fun, but to me it is a lot better than working in blistering heat.

Yesterday I talked to Trine at TMU about the appartment search. We sat down together and looked at it. Added 50 places to my “wishlist”. And that’s only because you’re limited to adding 50 per go. Today I added a bunch more. So now I am on the list for a ton of places. A lot. It takes a day to update the lists though, so I’ll have to wait till tomorrow before I can see how high I am on the lists for various places. I think 31 is my highest placing yet. Which means there are 30 people ahead of me for that particular place. But then lots of people turn the places down when offered so 30 isn’t horrible. When you get up in the 15-20s then I think it’s starting to be realistic to have a chance. I also saw something about a place where people on early retirement have higher priority than “normal” people, so that place might be a good one if I haven’t found anything by the time retirement kicks in, presuming it does. This is all technical and boring though, I’m sure. In a day or two I should know a bit more of how my chances are.

Meanwhile, why don’t you entertain yourself with some new videos that I done youtubed? Starting off with a coupla Mads ones.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-AflihJktRg. The sweet Mads. See how he is enjoying the scratching. He seems to like when I put my arm up on his head like that. You’d think he wouldn’t. But he always reacts the same way, rolling his head around, licking, trying to eat my shirt or arm if possible. He doesn’t push it away. It’s fun.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YNXHCBWOJzw. The darker Mads. Not wanting to share the attention with the lambs. And the big BANG as he smashes his head against the fence.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NqIh5MovdUg. More lambs. Silly runnings. And Mini almost trying to squeeze through the fence. At least getting her head in to the hay. Until Mads interrupts.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=J6_jpnAsU8I. The scratching stick. I found an excellent stick. It had a little bump in it, a branch that had broken off only leaving a little bit sticking out. Vanilje and Magnethe really liked being scratched with it. It’s a pretty boring video really, unless you happen to like seeing goats being scratched. It ends with Mads duelling the stick and trying to chew it.

Vanilje kinda smells a bit sometimes. Especially when scratched between her horns. It’s that buck smell. Not very strong. In fact I find it quite pleasant, but then I’m a goat nut. I just always associated that smell with male goats. Especially 3B and Springbok. Gah, I miss those guys. Anyway. Funny to have Vanilje give off a little of that whiff. Maybe that’s why Magnethe has tried mounting/humping her a couple of times? Hah. Those goats and their gender issues.

Mini also keeps jumping up on Dotty. Not in a humping way though. Just with her two front legs across Dotty’s body. To reach up higher. Until Dotty pushes her off.

That’s all for the weekend. It’s almost summer vacation time. Monday and Tuesday are the last proper days at TMU. I’ll sit back down with Trine to look at the appartment stuff again. And maybe I’ll talk to Paw about the playground, although I’m not sure if we’re supposed to talk or if he’s just going to contact them on his own and let me know later. I’ll find out though. Then on Wednesday it’s the final day. We’ll all go eat downtown and then go to Tivoli Friheden and spend the rest of the day there. I have been debating with myself (and Trine) how much I would want and be able to do of that. I have decided to try and go and eat with everyone else, because that’s the proper goodbye occasion. And then I probably won’t go to Friheden, since it will be a bit much for me and since everyone will probably scatter around the place and have fun with their kids and stuff. I think doing the whole thing would be too much, but hopefully it’ll be okay to just have the lunch and then say my goodbyes. And then it’s vacation. In theory. I don’t really know when the skånejob at the playground will start, or if it even will happen. But since I pretty much go to the playground every day anyway it doesn’t make that much of a difference. That’s how it’s all looking right now. There’s some other stuff in the works, to keep myself busy and entertained and not locked up in my room. But I’ll talk more about that when I.. know more about that.

And now I’m going to go listen to the rain. Drip, drip the drops.

Lots of pictures to post today. And not much else. So let’s get going. Starting off with my favourite.

Vanilje and a boy. I like the happy smile on his face.

goats bring happiness, it is a proven fact. I refer you to Plume’s Study of Happy Stuff for scientifically proven statistics of goat influence on human moods.

Lambs will also do quite nicely.

They look cute and silly when they come running towards you. I shall probably have a video youtubed of that soon.

“Man, I got so wasted last night. My head is killing me”. Teehee. Magnethe is so cute.

Another funny picturrr. I set the timer on my camera, wanting to take a picture of Magnethe poking her head out of the hatch. But of course she decided to jump out just as the timer went off. So instead of a picture of Magnethe looking out at me I got a picture of me trying to catch her and keep her in the frame.

Her belly. I wonder if there are goatlings in there? But the point of the picture is to show those little white hairs that she has grown. It almost looks like the white spot under her belly is spreading upwards.

Mads not forgotten. I love when something catches the goats’ attention and they quickly turn their head. They are very good at spotting things. Especially people. I’ll be sitting next to Mads and his head turns quickly in some direction. I turn and look and somewhere far away in the distance there’s a human moving around. Someone I never would have spotted myself, but the goats see all. The goats know all. The goats are all around. All praise the goats.

Vanilje jumps up on the fence like that quite often. She’ll run to the fence, jump up, swerve her head around, baah and jump back down. Much to my entertainment.

The geeselings are a-growing.

Soon they will probably be honking and chasing everyone away.

Kurt taking a girl out to ride on Musse. Usually Alice is the one who takes the horses out when kids want to ride them. But it doesn’t look like Kurt minds.

And that’s all, folks. The weather has cooled down the last couple of days. There has even been a little summer rain. Much nicer. And comfortably Danish summery.

Hola.

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