It rained last night. Sweet soothing rain. And there was a solar eclipse yesterday. Funny weather. Does an eclipse count as weather?

It happend while I was with the goats. At least so I gather from reading about it. I didn’t see it myself. It wasn’t a total eclipse, I probably would have noticed it if that had been the case. Now it just slipped past me. When I am with the goats the outside world doesn’t matter much.

I had a good time with the goats. I decided to try out some advice from the Debster. I brought a water bottle to try and stop Thor from using his horns on me. One of those that squirts out the water in a fine mist. And it worked a charm. Every now and then he’d start rubbing his head against me, which was fine. But then if he’d turn and start using his horns I’d squirt water at him. And he would jump away immediately. Probably wondering how I managed to have a localized rain storm in a bottle. It’s not a ray gun, it’s a rain gun! Anyway, it makes it much easier for me to just sit and relax and enjoy the goat company. Thanks Deb!

I don’t know if Thor will learn not to use his horns. I don’t think I’m around often enough to really teach him. But as a quickfix it is very effective. And it’s not like it hurts him or anything. He just jumps and then goes on his merry business. Doesn’t seem to hold a grudge either. Later on he sat down right next to me and we were best of mates.

He did the “digging the ground before sitting down” thing that Mads always used to do. Sigh.

The weather has cooled a little now, after the rain. But yesterday it was still very hot. It was tempting to spray myself with the water bottle. Reminded me of childhood water fights. On the square outside our house. That was just before all these “super soaker” gun-type things started coming from America. We had to actually find bottles and stuff in our kitchens to fill with water and throw at each other. And water balloons of course. Nothing like a good waterfight.

A stupid picture of Magnethe. But I like it for some reason. The shape of the horns and the ears and all. I better put up a proper one, though. Otherwise she’ll never stop complaining about how lousy my headshots are and how she needs a new agent if she’s ever going to make it big in Hollywood.

There you are Magnethe, you diva!

Lakrids enjoying the fresh branches.

And Vanilje obviously enjoying them as well.

Now I shall enjoy my weekend and the warm, but not super-hot, weather.

PS. If you had trouble accessing my blog earlier today/yesterday, then it is because sitemeter killed the internet. I removed the sitemeter code so now it’s working. Hopefully they’ll get it fixed soon. How do you screw up thousands of users’ websites and then go away for the weekend without noticing? Geez.

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