I don’t like the sound of thawing. It’s a good thing there is so much snow, it’ll take a while before it’s gone. I hope. Or really, I hope that the temperatures will drop below zero again and we’ll get more snow. Snow snow snow.

It’s been a couple of foggy days. With snow on the ground and fog in the air, it’s like walking around in creamy pea soup. Or something.

Things went well yesterday at the playground. It was much easier now that I had cleared paths between the various buildings. And more importantly all the doors opened up without a struggle. That made things a lot easier. I was met by a funny sight when I opened up the door to the goat and sheep building. They were all running around freely inside. The goats and sheep and lambs. They have their seperate spaces, but the doors to those were open. I guess I didn’t close them properly when I was there on Saturday. The goat door can be kind of tricky, sometimes the lock doesn’t shut properly and the door can spring open, especially if Mads or Magnethe jumps up on it. So that can happen. Just odd that both the sheep and goat door were open. I almost thought someone had been in there and let them out. But in that snowstorming weather that doesn’t seem likely. Odd. But I bet they’d had a fun time together during the night, haha. I hope the lambs stayed out of Mads’s way.

And then today it was back to work at TMU. It was closed on Thursday and Friday because of the weather. Apparently only one guy had braved the snow storm to turn up. Only to find the place closed. D’oh. But now the busses are running again. I had a couple of little talks. First with Trine. That is the social worker at TMU. She is also my contact person there. So I guess she’ll be the one I have to deal with the most. She’s very nice, so that’s good. And then I talked to Peter, the bossguy. He once again said that he was pretty confident that my case would be done by the time they close down for summer holidays. When the first term is over. So that’s good. By then they should have put my case together so they can present it to the “system” and I can get a flex job or retirement. I don’t really care which one it will be. If I get retirement then it doesn’t mean I’ll just sit home and do nothing. I’ll get a “skåne job”. Not sure what that is in English. But basically it’s like a flex job only less than 20 hours. And that would be fine with me. Flex job or skåne job, I don’t care. As long as it’s something I can do without feeling horrible. And I’ll keep working at the playground. Working on the social phobia. And hopefully I’ll feel happy. That’s more important to me than the number of hours I’ll end up working.

Speaking of the playground, let’s have some piccitures.

“Hmm.. I think I’ll stay inside today…”. Mads did not like the look of the snow. He did actually go outside, but only very shortly. I was over by the lambs, I guess that’s what made him jump out. I pretty much only caught a glimpse of his wide butt as he jumped back inside though. Hehe. Way too much snow for him.

And for Magnethe too for that matter.

The lambs and sheep were outside though, in a spot with less snow.

Look at Mini:

She’s such a little cutie pie. It’s funny how she still scrunches up like that. You can see how her back arches, compared to the other one. I like picking her up.

She’s so tiny in my arms. Although you can’t see that on the picture. But I feel like a giant when I hold her. In a good way.

Hello up there. They are awfully cute yes.

But don’t worry, Mads.

You are still the cutest.

I brought a comb and spent some nice time grooming Magnethe. Wow, you wouldn’t believe how much wool and hair I gathered up. It was sweet. She seemed to really like it. Per complimented my work, he said she looked much better without all those weird tots of wool. Hehe. She is a pretty girl.

There’s nothing better than lambs and goats when you’re tired and sore. I could have sat there and groomed Magnethe for the rest of the day, it would not have been a second wasted.

Time is all we have.

I was hard at work today. In fact I will admit, today it wasn’t fun working at the playground. Snow everywhere, ice everywhere. Hard work. But the snow still gorgeous and the animals still wonderful, so it’s not like it was horrible at all.

The trickiest part was just getting the doors open.

Æsel, the free roaming bunny, came jumping out.

Nina didn’t come running though. I thought maybe they had put her inside because of all the snowstorming. But she wasn’t inside either. I found her in the rabbit house instead. She has a special entrance on the roof there. When I was done with all the work I wanted to take her with me inside in the main house, but she wouldn’t let me pick her up. That bummed me out. My feet were so frozen that I knew I’d have to sit down inside for a while to warm them up, and I figured it would be perfect to have Nina to keep me company. But she was very adamant about it, so I had to go back alone. I sat for a while on the couch with my legs under some great big pillows. Then I heard some soft mews from outside. And there was Nina, standing at the door. I guess she had a change of heart. So I let her in and she started eating from her bowl. I sat back down on the couch. And when she was done eating she came to me and jumped up and sat on my stomach. If that doesn’t warm your feet, what will?

It all went reasonably ok. Hard work, but I got it done. Now I was planning to relax tomorrow. But I got a call from Jannie. She asked if I could feed the animals tomorrow again since she had to go to work and she was getting stressed out because of the weather. I kinda felt like saying no. I think I will be tired and sore tomorrow. But what can ya do, I’m just too nice a guy. So I said yes. It’ll be easier tomorrow anyway. Now that I have cleared some paths and there will be no new snow.

I think it’s raining now actually. A little. Maybe the whole place will be frozen solid in ice tomorrow. Haha. Well, I’ll see. I’m sure I’ll survive.

S’more snow pics:

And also, a snow video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=E4nxJVCqgs4. It’s not really that interesting. Just me walking in the snow. But you can see what it looks like where I live. In case you wondered.

That’s all folks. Hope you’re enjoying your weekends.

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Current music: Explosions In The Sky – So Long, Lonesome
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