Bellyrubaround
Sunday evening. The weekend is almost over. Unless you’re ME, in which case all weekends are now three day weekends! Haha.
Well, actually I think I’m going to talk to them and see if we can’t get my schedule changed. I think it will be better for me to work shorter hours and more days. In other words, working Mondays again. I think my problem is more that of staying longer, because I get so drained and exhausted and feel the need to flee. So I’ll suggest working four days 9-13 instead of three days 9-14. Although I’ll hate giving up my free Monday. Because Monday mornings suck. But I will be responsible and do what’s right.
After tomorrow, of course.
And now picture time.
Bodil came by the other day. With her dog Lulu, who is saying hello to Kurt in that picture. Notice the plastic bag she is carrying. She had cake in it. Naturally the goats were very interested in that.
Especially Mads. He often looks straight up at people’s faces like that when they’re talking to him. It makes him look like he is very interested in what they’re saying hehe.
We all spent some nice time talking.
And Kurt picked up Lulu and put her on his lap and gave her nice cuddles. When she gets really in the mood she’ll roll over on her back and you can rub her tummy. Which is very sweet.
Altough Mads kept trying to grab the attention of course.
While the humans talked, the goats would occasionally wander off in search for food.
In all the wrong places. Mads and Vanilje getting into the food holders. Followed by bangs as the lids closed and Alice repeatedly chasing them off. A few minutes later they’d be back and you’d hear Alice go “not again! schooo, get out of here!”.
And Magnethe went to the horses’ supply of hay to munch away.
Lulu again. I don’t know if she’s exactly a standard beauty of a dog, but she sure is fun and sweet. The goats were again a little apprehensive, but not too bad. And again Vanilje was the brave one who went right up to Lulu to investigate. She even did a little of the “goat jumping up in the air” thing. Like she was challenging the dog. She’s got spunk, that’s for sure. I remember the first day when the kids were born, she went outside all on her own to find Mathilde who had ventured outside for some fresh air. Her two siblings had to be carried out, but not Vanilje. She bravely faces the world.
And that’s her tail, relevantly enough.
Don’t forget the lambs though.
Dotty, with the spot on her belly. They are getting bigger and bigger. Much to my surprise.
Magnethe, after the horses came back and rudely chased her away from her ill-gotten hay bounty.
And that’s a nice panorama scene. The grass field, the slope and the big buildings beyond. You really need to click on it and see the fullsize version to appreciate the scale.
That is it all for today. It’s photography week next week at TMU and I still have some other photography stuff that I want to write about. But my energy has been severely lacking lately. I think I have been a little sick. My mother has been a lot sick, coughing like a sailor all the time. Hmm, do sailors cough? No, that’s swearing isn’t it? Anyway, I’m off. Maybe the fruit of your loins be green and plentiful, dear reader.
March 27th, 2007 at 2:50
Are those big buildings apartment buildings? Is there a fence that we can’t see to keep the goats in the playground? Looks like they could just walk up to the buildings and look in a window. Wouldn’t that be a surprise?
That’s a good idea about going to TMU four days a week for a shorter period of time instead of three days a week. It helps keep you in a routine of getting up, going to work, socializing with others at TMU, etc.
My goodness, the lambies are getting bigger! They don’t stay little for long.
March 27th, 2007 at 20:47
Debster – Yup, those are appartments. And nope, there’s no fence. So yes, they could walk up to the buildings. And they have. That was actually why they got their own little fenced fold made. They were wandering too far away. It happened a couple of times that people would come down and say that there were goats running around up there. Hehe. And construction workers, they’d be working. On contructing things, I assume. And then suddenly goats would start walking around on their site. So yeah, fun stuff. If the goats are up on the slope when I’m about to leave then I usually get them to come down from there before I go. Don’t want them to wander up to the buildings, they might end up having to stay in their fold if they go on walkabouts again. I much prefer them walking around freely, as long as they don’t walk too far.
I am typing much too much.