Good goat tims today. Another beautiful sunny day, and quite warm. I think it got up around 24C/75F, which is hot for us. I didn’t bring enough to drink so I got a bit woozy later on. But I was fine.
The big deal today was of course the long awaited return of Jeanette from vacation. Hooray! We survived three weeks without her. We ran out of hay at the end of last week. Jeanette had to go get new stuff. She said that, like last year, there’s not enough available to buy. She had to get some extra expensive premium stuff, I think it’s for horses. Well the goats were happy with it. Fine dining! Let’s hope we can get our hands on some of the regular stuff soon.
It was good to see Jeanette. We had a nice talk in the morning. “There’s not much left of you now” she remarked. Haha. Nice of her to notice. So we chatted a little about my diet and health too. It’s just good to have her around and taking care of the animals again, and of me. Of course.
And I had a lovely time with the goats. Lots of cuddles and treats, good relaxing and some headbutting. The goats, not me. Bella and Luna got into a big one where they were running and grunting at eachother, they don’t usually do that. But they calmed down before I could get my camera going. Come on, save it for the show!
Now I’ll grab some soup, no cheese.
5/8 2024
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Meditation in the goat pen. While Sky is ready to steal the goat tax from my pocket.

5/8 2024
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The goats enjoying their premium hay.

5/8 2024
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Made good on my second promise/threat. Got myself Corn Flakes today. I have to fact check myself. I said that I thought I’d never had Corn Flakes before. That’s baloney. Of course I have. As a kid. I don’t know why I thought I hadn’t. But I haven’t as an adult, so it was fun to grab a bowl. Well it was alright. Not something I’ll be doing again I think. Not sure why I suddenly had a craving to have Corn Flakes. Got milk, too. For the first time in more than a decade I think. Maybe have had chocolate milk a few times over the years. But straight milk, I stopped that long ago. And no plans to keep doing that either. If I was going to start drinking milk again, I’d drink some kind of milk-like drink. Just to pee oh the people under the thumb of Big Dairy who get infuriated because YOU CAN’T MILK A NUT. The only reason I didn’t get some nutmilk (mmm…) today was because I don’t know which I’d like and I didn’t feel like experimenting for just a bowl of cereal this one time. Now I got it out of the system, no more cereal or milk for me anytime soon.
Back to tomatoes, cucumber and apples, and soup, for a while, I think.
5/8 2024
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Sunblissed with the three goat girls.

5/8 2024
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goatlog

6/8 2024
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You know, I don’t mean to take photos with goats in them. But every time I try to take a cool selfie for my instergam peeps, when I look at them afterwards there are just goats in them.

6/8 2024
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Got an hour and a half on the bike today. Good to get back on it after a couple of ‘cheat days’ with pizza and Corn Flakes. Good to get a sweat going again. Burn those calories.
It was a bit of a slog, because I hadn’t gotten enough sleep last night. They have started laying foundations for a new building in a lot almost right next to my apartment block. They’re going to be doing that for the next three weeks. it’s not constant noise, but when they’re hammering ground.. that’s like an earth quake sound and feel. And it went off before 7 am today I think. I had planned on an hour or two more. Oh well. It’s 7 pm now and all quiet. I’d rather they did the heavy pounding around noon. You don’t want a heavy pounding too early in the morning. Should I shut up now? I think I should shut up now.
6/8 2024
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Big day of downtowning for me today. Off to the doctor’s office first. A quick blood test, hopefully it should come back all good. My blood pressure is perfect. And all my own blood sugar level measurements have been good, so hooves crossed that’s as it should be.
After that I had some business with my dad. He had asked for my help gettnig some photos taken. The city has put up some elephant sculptures around town, and he really wanted some photos taken. He CAN take photos on his phone, but he doesn’t know how to get them to the computer. I don’t know anything about smartphones, I suppose he must have a USB cable iwth it or something. Anyway, I was happy to take some photos for him. I’ll talk more about that later and show you one.
We also stopped by a hardware store, because I need a new fluorescent light tube for my bathroom. Unfortunately we didn’t get one though. I have an old armature, and it can’t use LED tubes. And that’s all they had. I think you can get an LED starter to fix it, but I’ll have to do some more research I gues. The lady in the store wasn’t a whole lot of help.
After all that we went back to my parents’ place where I had to look at their printer. it’s been out of commision for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to fit it. In fact I broke it completely. Whoops. Well I figured I could be a little rough with it, since I was pretty sure it would have to be replaced anyway. It’s an old one, they’ve had someone else look at it, and fixing it was just beyond me. I hate when I can’t fix their tech problems, I know they depend on me for some of that stuff. it’s just hard when it’s problem with things I am not familiar with. Like printers and smartphones. My low vision makes it really hard to deal with new stuff.
Now I’ll have to try help them get a new printer. I hope we can get the same make and model so they know how to use it, but that’s probably asking for too much. We’ll have to see how it goes.
I am really tired now. Too much time out in crowded places. And working on my parents’ computer is really hard on my eyes since it’s not set up for my needs. Just transferring the photos from my camera took almost 10 minutes, it takes 30 seconds on my own pc. And now my legs and back are messed up from all the walking and awkward sitting and bending and positions.
I need some soup.
I really prefer living life in my own bubble. I hate when i I am forced to get out in the real world. Bubble boy is getting upset!
7/8 2024
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Here are some photos from our little trip downtown. Dad with the elephant.
It’s funny, it was only within the last few years that I found out that my dad loves elephants. I don’t know how long he’s felt like that, but it took me by surprise when he told me some years ago. Don’t know why I never realised that. Elephants are his goats, I suppose. Goats are easier to sit with, though. And their berries are more manageable.
Anyway. One of the activities my dad has done at the dementia support center he goes to has been to make elephant clay figures. Made in clay and glazed. He gave one of them to me and I have it here in my apartment, it will be a treasured keepsake in the future.
But when the city put up these elephant sculptures around town he wanted to get some photos taken. I took a bunch of pics, hope some of them turned out okay. When you hire a blind photographer you gotta take what you get.
Beautiful sunny day for it too. A few hours after I got home I could hear the thunder bowling outside, rivaling the building foundation laying from earlier. Somewhat like the elephant kids who dance upstairs in the morning sometimes.
Funnily enough the book I’m currently reading is The Elephant Vanishes, another collection of short stories from Haruki Murakami. So far, not very elephant centric though.
Anyway, it was nice to get downtown with dad. I’m not a very sociable person, I’m not good at just spending time with humans, even family. And it takes a lot out of me. Been a long time since I walked around downtown too. When I was younger I’d sometimes take the bus down there, the shopping streets, the cathedral. These days I usually only go as far as my doc’s office. Suppose it’s nice to get a view of the world once in a while, before going back to the bubble.

7/8 2024
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Good goat times today. A cloudy day, but the sun broke through now and then. Good to be back amongst goats, instead of humans. Much more my comfort zone. Well, I’ll allow Jeanette in the bubble. And we had some sweet visitors, a cute lil boy running around the pen. Mostly interested in the feathers though. But that was all good fun.
Got home and did an hour twentyfive on the bike. So I’m quite worn down now. I can feel all that walking around downtown in my legs, uses different muscles than the biking. Time to unwind now.
8/8 2024
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Just hanging out with Lady Sky.

8/8 2024
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ese bake

8/8 2024
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Sky and Luna out grazing.

8/8 2024
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goatlog

9/8 2024
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Well, my dad’s had a rough day. He was over here earlier, but he’d fallen in the bus when the driver made a sudden start. And just now he called, back home but he fell AGAIN in the bus. So now he’s heading off to the hospital to get checked. He sounded fairly okay, but it’s obviously not good. He just got over that concussion he got recently, and he passed out while at a friend’s place a couple of weeks ago I think it was.
He’s staying active and getting out pretty much every day I think, but he’s gotta be careful. I worry about him. Thank you to everyone for the comments on the elephant photos by the way, he appreciates everyone getting to see them.
9/8 2024
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Thanks everyone for the concern about my dad. I just talked to him on the phone. He’s still at the hospital. He’s had x-rays done, and still has to go through some checks. I think he’s okay, other than pain from the fall(s). Hopefully nothing broken or any head trauma. It’s 9.30 pm now, unless there are serious updates I probably won’t hear any news until tomorrow. It would be nice if he could go home tonight, but I don’t know if they’ll let him go. Maybe better to spend the night at the hospital anyway, if that’s possible. We’ll see. Hopefully no complications.
9/8 2024
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My dad is back home and doing okay, under the circumstances. He’s hurting from the falls and may have some slight concussion. But no broken limbs or serious injuries. So now he just has to heal up. Exercise it away, the doc says. Well, hope he takes it easy. Thank you everyone for the concern and kindness. One day a day, for us all.
Some of you asked for a picture of the elephant sculpture he made for me a while ago. Here it is. Not a hood photo, it’s hard to capture it with the shiny glaze, but it’s a lovely elephant figure, made with love and care. Just don’t tell the goats, I don’t want the to get jealous.

10/8 2024
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Got an hour thirtyfive on the bike today. Still chuggalugging at it. I’m not going to give up on the exercising, even if I’m relaxing a little on the diet. Gotta find that balance between staying healthy and staying happy. Well, as happy as a chronically depressed prince turned into a toad can be, wait I’ve said too much. Quack.
10/8 2024
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This is a moustached puffbird, in case you were wondering.
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10/8 2024
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goatlog

11/8 2024
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Siesta time is the besta time.

11/8 2024
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Hey, Sky made it up on the biggest log too. Good going, girl.

11/8 2024
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That’s all for now.

Good goat times today. A lovely, warm summer day with lots of sunshine. My leg seems to be doing fine. The furs and the feathers are hungry and ready to play.
Last week of vacation. We did have a couple of visitors, but not interacting with me or the goats. There was a new playground worker, I don’t think I’ve seen her before. Didn’t get her name, but she seemed very nice and friendly and was working with the animals like Jeanette usually does, so that was nice.
We were all tired in the sunshine. I didn’t sleep enough last night, so I was Bella levels of tired. I’m pretty sure I dozed off a little, sitting on the ground. Woke up thinking someone was tugging at my pant leg, turned out it was Red Sonja pecking at it. Maybe there were some tomato seeds stuck on it. She made me laugh earlier too when I was giving peanuts to the goats and Sky dropped one on the ground, as she sometimes does. Red Sonja came running in and pecked it up with her beak and quickly carried it to the side where she started pecking on it. She’s fast and food driven like a goat.
Time for some soup now, maybe a nap before bedtime.
29/7 2024
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Bella, the tireddest goat in all of Denmark. Often the first to sit down, always the first, and often the only one, to curl around like this and just zonk out completely. I was worried she’d fall off the tub, a couple of times she was rolling around and it looked like she’d just go over the edge. But she stayed put.

29/7 2024
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Kickin’ back, laid back. totes relaxed.

29/7 2024
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I have no light and I must descend.
29/7 2024
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Better get another sweet goat pic up. Look, Luna sat down with Sky again! Maybe they are starting to bond. It’s mostly been Bella and Sky sitting together, or all three of them. But now twice Luna has purposefully walked over and sat down close to Sky. Sweet. Luna is the headbuttiest of the goats. Bella and Sky don’t butt heads together too often. But Luna will butt heads with both of them. She’s the kid trying to prove herself.

29/7 2024
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goatlog

30/7 2024
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Got an hour and a half on the exercise bike today. After a week’s break. Legs felt good, no sign of problems with the problematic muscle. At least not so far. Felt good to be back on track, even if it’s just biking in place. The track leads nowhere, but the track also leads forwards. And upwards. And around the bend. And, okay maybe I need some more water.
But yes. I’ll give it some extra effort for a couple of weeks and see where it takes me. If I can lose some more weight, or if it’s just a matter of mainting now. Got a doc’s appointment in a couple of weeks, hopefully the long term blood sugar measurements will be good. They’ve been perfect the last couple of months when I’ve checked. That was really the main objective of getting back to diet and exercise, to get the blood sugar back in control. Losing the weight has been a great bonus. So far so good.
30/7 2024
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It was the wind, I swear! says Luna.
30/7 2024
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good goat times today. Another beautiful sunny and warm day. Lovely to get some good summer again. And another pretty quiet day of vacation, only a few visitors passing by without seeing the goats. I lugged the logs around for a bit again, they’ve been lying against the fence but I moved them over to the mountain. Propped the biggest one up more, and both Bella and Luna got up on it and did some fine balancing. They were more intested in peeling the bark off a smaller branch that somehow previously had avoided their attention. Luna managed to peel off a couple of really long, thick strands of bark and was chewing on them like a big liquorice treat or something. Yum! And of course we laid back and relaxed in the sun. I hope August will be a good summer month, I want more!
And now I want more soup.
30/7 2024
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Bella first to master the new log configuration.

30/7 2024
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Luna also conquered the log, after Bella had settled on the tub to get tiredder.

30/7 2024
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Luna barking up the right branch.

30/7 2024
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Good goat times today. Once again a lovely, warm and sunny summer’s day. Not too quiet, there was a guy riding a lawnmower in the sportfield in the morning. Later on there were a lot of kids, but they were over by the playground building, not at the goats. When I walked by on my way home it looked like they had a lemonade stand or something. Not sure what was going on, but some kind of activities.
My activities was just hanging out with the furs and the feathers. Mostly just relaxing and treating. I did do some construction work. I had noticed a couple of old pallets in the pen where the chicken and bunny houses are. I lifted them up into the goat pen and ararnged them around the logs. More stuff to climb on, because goats gotta climb.
And then I came home and got an hour twenty on the bike. So I’m quite tired now. Might need a goat nap.
1/8 2024
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Everywhere I go, there’s Luna.

1/8 2024
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It’s a beautiful day in the goathood.

1/8 2024
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Political discourse be like

1/8 2024
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It’s 11 pm, my head is hurting, and someone in the hood is playing loud booming music. I guess it’s a Friday night party, but still. And I really want cake. The cake is no lie.
Bedtime soon. Earplugs to the rescue.
1/8 2024
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I also hang with Bella, cos I’m cool like that.

2/8 2024
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This isn’t the most interesting video, but here’s how I spend some time at the goat pen. Trying to build something the goats can use for entertainment. This was from Wednesday, so it’s not the finished project.
2/8 2024
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Maybe I should do a Buffy/Angel rewatch too. After Twin Peaks, Lost and Mr Robot. And The Good Place. I just want to watch old things and avoid the present, nevermind the future.

2/8 2024
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Loving Sky. By the way, thank you to everyone for all the encouraging words about the exercise and weight loss and all that. I appreciate it. I know I’m supposed to be all holy and saying I do it for my health, but it feels good to get positive feedback from others, no doubt. I have spent most of my life hating myself, so I try to take in all the love and positivity I can. I don’t know what it is, but somehow it’s so much easier to accept and take in those feelings from animals, they can make you feel loved and accepted. It’s harder with humans. But you guys have done a lot for me to change that. Thanks yous.

2/8 2024
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goatlogg
guess the embed isn’t going to work. Sorry bout that. It’s just the same old goat stuff.

3/8 2024
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Got an hour and a half on the bike today. Woring hard.
And it paid off. Afterwards I recorded the lowest weighto n the scales I have had since I started recording it back in 2013ish. A new record low. Quite possibly a record low for my adult life, since I was always overweight and before I got the diabetes and started working on it, it was even worse.
So that’s something. Down about 37 pounds since November. About 54 pounds lower than the highest I ever recorded.
Not bad. And I think that’s it. I’m done. According to Dr Google I’m below the the halfway point in the healthy weight range for my height. Closer to the lowest point than the highest. It wouldn’t hurt to lose more weight. But. I’ve been dieting pretty hard the last couple of weeks. Exercising hard. I don’t want to obsess about it. I’m happy with where I’ve gotten to. I miss eating good stuff. I want to have some noodles with coconut oil sometimes. I want some pizza sometime. For some reason right now I have a craving for Corn Flakes. You know what’s crazy? I don’t think I’ve ever had Corn Flakes. Well, I suppose I probably may have as a kid. But I was never a cereal kinda kid I think. And if I were, I think it was Captain Crunch, I have memories of that. If I’ve had Corn Flakes then it’s 40ish years ago. I want some damn Corn Flakes! Not that I’m going to start eating cereal, I know that stuff isn’t healthy. But just one bowl to celebrate. And definitely pizza and noodles.
I’m going to try to keep my diet fairly healthy, not go back to the really bad habits. And keep exercising. Keep monitoring my weight and blood sugar. And see if I can eat a little happilier and stay around this weight. That’s the new goal. No more hunting the scales. I got myself to a good place. Try to stay in that zone and be happy. Should be possible, right?
Maybe even a cake now and then. I just have to be careful, because I’m very bad at limiting myself. If I have one cake, then I’ll have the all. And then get more. And then it’s a spiral. But we’ll see.
For now, I’m just happy I got to here. I have worked hard for it. I might get a pizza tomorrow. Tonight I’m having soup. Lasseman: Into the Soupverse. Hereby announcing that i’m running for President of the United Soupstates of Anywhere.
3/8 2024
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Sorry I keep yapping about how great I am at weight loss. It’s a curse and a blessing. Mostly a blessing. But also mostly a curse. If I had to make a mathematical statement regarding the ratio of curse and bless I’d put it around 50% or thereabouts. Accounting for inflation and statistically anomalies due to orbital wobble. Look, I’m not a scientist. Or a mathematician. Or a person who is good at writing words on the internet. Or a hedgehog. There are a whole lot of things that I are not. But I yam what I yam. I’m a yam. No wait, I mean .Yak. Did you know there’s an alien in Star Wars called Yak Face? That’s why the original SW movies were the best. Practical effects and good names. If they had Yak Face in Woke Disney Era it’d be a CGI effect called Non Human Inoffensive Alien (not ilelgal). And another thin
3/8 2024
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Bella’s always got good balance. She stood like that for a minute, one leg just dangling in the air. Goofball.

4/8 2024
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I made good on my promise/threat and ordered pizza today. For the first time in.. 3 or 4 months. Crazy. It was nice to have some pizza again. I do love it. I don’t have any plans to go back to regularly eating it though. I used to eat pizza or other junk food maybe twice a week. It cost a lot of money, and my anxiety gets flared when I have to wait for deliveries. I don’t really want to get back in that habit. Maybe a pizza now and then. But Id prefer soup, and other simpler things. But it was nice to do today. I haven’t had cheese in so long either. Mmm melted cheese. Is there such a thing as cheese soup? Maybe I should invent it. If it melts enough then it will be soup, right? Okay.
4/8 2024
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Don’t you just love when people play loud music out in nature. Just swell. Who wants to listen to the birds and goats anyway!
4/8 2024
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That’s all for now.