{"id":788,"date":"2008-02-15T23:16:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T22:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2008-02-15T23:19:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T22:19:03","slug":"war-and-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"War And Goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up around 2:30 last night. To the smell of smoke. Pretty heavy too. Enough that I had to get up and make sure my appartment wasn&#8217;t on fire. <\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t, though. But someone lit a fire down in one of the basement rooms I think. There has been a lot of fires set in Denmark recently. <a HREF=\"http:\/\/canadianpress.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5g3zl03ekDqgTt-qnltxnSAj6SwoQ\">http:\/\/canadianpress.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5g3zl03ekDqgTt-qnltxnSAj6SwoQ<\/a>. There&#8217;s more reading on Google News if you&#8217;re interested. But basically it&#8217;s 2nd generation immigrant youths. Restless and perhaps angry about the reprinting of the famous Mohammed cartoons? Whatever the cause, it&#8217;s not nice to feel unsafe in your own home. It&#8217;s been pretty quiet here in the neighbourhood while I have lived here. But I know that some time before I moved here there were frequent clashes between youths and police. I would rather not like the neighbourhood to turn into a warzone again.<\/p>\n<p>I got a flyer through my mail slot, calling for an end to fires and violence. In three different languages. Let&#8217;s hope that helps&#8230; can&#8217;t we just all get along?<\/p>\n<p>On a brighter note, today I went back to the goats. And how wonderful they are. I thought I needed distance&#8230; no, no. All wrong. I needed goats around me. Very wonderful.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-4823\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/080215_vanilje1_th.jpg\" ALT=\"vanilje\" TITLE=\"vanilje\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sweet Vanilje, seeming to do okay. <\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-4820\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/080215_magnethe_th.jpg\" ALT=\"magnethe\" TITLE=\"magnethe\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Magnethe has gotten even wider. Can&#8217;t be long now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-4824\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/080215_mads_th.jpg\" ALT=\"mads\" TITLE=\"mads\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Mads has gotten woollier. It always amuses me how those little tufts of wool just seem to randomly appear in the fur.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-4819\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/080215_madsmagnethe_th.jpg\" ALT=\"madsmagnethe\" TITLE=\"madsmagnethe\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mads and Magnethe sitting in the sun. I had a really beautiful moment, sitting down between them. With Vanilje rummaging through the hay in front of us. The sun shining. It was like a summer scene, only very, very cold.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-4821\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/080215_megoats_th.jpg\" ALT=\"megoats\" TITLE=\"megoats\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to get a good picture of oneself sitting in between two goats. But trust me, it&#8217;s a wonderful place to be. It&#8217;s not often I get to be so perfectly placed, with Mads sitting on my left and Magnethe on my right. Normally I&#8217;m lucky if I can get just one goat sitting next to me. I guess it was the sunshine that made them feel like sitting down. And maybe in Magnethe&#8217;s case the litter she is carrying. Wait, a litter is kittens innit?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. I could sit there all day. Just watch them chew their cud and relax.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-4822\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/080215_vanilje2_th.jpg\" ALT=\"vanilje\" TITLE=\"vanilje\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A last one of Vanilje. She was kinda rolling around in the hay a couple of times, and licking\/scratching down by the udder. I wonder if&#8217;s bothering her? It still makes me sad, the thought of what should have been. But she&#8217;s a beautiful goat. I hope she will get more chances in the future,<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, Poul has left the playground. No more buck. But I do believe he will be coming back at a later date. And you shall know him by the flopping ears.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s weekend. I hope it will be a quiet one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up around 2:30 last night. To the smell of smoke. Pretty heavy too. Enough that I had to get up and make sure my appartment wasn&#8217;t on fire. It wasn&#8217;t, though. But someone lit a fire down in one of the basement rooms I think. 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