Hello boys & girls. I hope you're all having a nice weekend. I was supposed to post this entry yesterday, but time flew like a cuckoo over my nest. I have to try and restrain myself. It's no good having 20-30 pictures in every entry. It takes me ages to get them resized and edited and fiddled. Haha. Oh well. There are worse things to spend time on.

I think I'm ready to proclaim the playground my second home. Now it's not just Mads who greets me, I have won over Mathilde too. When she sees me she comes a-calling. And Magnet usually follows her. So it's like one big welcome committee.

It's nice that she recognises me. Sniffs my hand. Lets me pet her if I'm careful.

She recognises other people too. Like the troublemaker kid. He was doing something to upset her. I'm not sure what. Maybe just trying to cuddle her without permission. But she got annoyed with him yesterday. And every time he'd try to go close she'd run away as fast as she could. And Magnet running after her. He's faster than Mathilde. The little scamp.

Mathilde is afraid of one of the grownups too I think. I was up there last weekend, when there weren't any kids around. But there was an adult, and every time he came into sight Mathilde would run like hell. I imagine he's the guy who has to handle the goats if they're sick or need examinations or injections or something. So when Mathilde sees him she goes "uh oh" and flees. He didn't even have to be close to her, as soon as she saw him she bolted away.

He's growing. And growing cuter by the day. When I pet his head I can feel the horns starting to come through. I bet he'll be a handsome goat when he's all grown.

Magnet isn't scared of the troublemaker kid.

Even though maybe he should be.

Hehe. It's a good thing Sine didn't try to eat him. Ah well, Magnet is too big to be a carrot anyway. I think the kid liked to see the other animals' reaction to Magnet.

And you can't say it isn't cute, eh?

Oh but look at this!

She's all naked! Mama sheep is all naked! Omygosh. They cut her hair. I guess it was getting too warm for her. Looks odd though. Like a big dog or something. But it'll grow again.

Her lambs were fun yesterday. Starting to get more interested in their surroundings. Starting to be interested in what people have to offer.

They were interested in me too. My shoelaces looked yummy I think.

Hehe. Both of them came and nibbled at my shoes. And when I took pictures up close they'd start sniffing at my camera to see if they could eat it.

It's a lovely place. It makes me happy. And it helps me with my social therapy. I'm blessed to have a playground like that just around the corner. I wish I had known about it when I was younger. Actually, I did know about it. I just didn't know there were so many great animals there. Didn't know how good that could be for me. I knew there were horses there because sometimes I spied on the girls from my class when they went there to ride the horses. Hehe. Sara used to go riding there, so naturally I had to spy. It's a good thing I didn't have a pair of binoculars, otherwise it might have been creepy.

Hehe.

When I was a kid I didn't have a camera. Or a cellphone with a camera. Good thing too. Otherwise I'd have millions of pictures of Sara I bet.

Instead of a million pictures of animals.

Mads is taking a drink there. Someone left the water fountain running. The kids were making a dam. Then they'd let the water run. Until it broke the dam and flooded out all over the place. Hehe. Everything makes me smile.

I like the kids up there. It's a good part of the experience too. Seeing their faces light up with joy when they pick up Magnet or the lambs, that's just so great.

Look, that picture has all the goats and sheepies. All we need are the horsies. They're just behind me in this picture. If you were psychic you could see. If you were psychic you could tell me next week's lottery numbers and I could buy the playground and make sure that they didn't build any clubs there and I could live happily ever after, surrounded by kids and animals.

I wish you were psychic.

Magnet does too. I considered photoshopping a speech bubble saying "please give Plume next week's lottery numbers" but I think we all know what's in his heart, we don't need no speech bubbles for that.

What's he thinking in this one?

He's thinking "I'm a superstar, everybody loves me". And he's right too. A clever kid.

Even mum is impressed.

Mads isn't too impressed with the lambs.

I paid a little visit to Miss Piggy too.

She was in the pig sty all alone. I wonder where the piglets were? Maybe they're on vacation at a farm. Or maybe they've been sold. I guess that's most likely. It's a little sad, but really they were growing fast and there just isn't room enough for a bunch of pigs the size of Miss Piggy. They would have to stand on top of each other or something. But I hope she doesn't get lonely. If I put a little food down to her then maybe Mads will sneak in to visit.

We'll finish off with White doing a goat pose.

The goats are always scratching themselves, rubbing against stuff. I think White was trying to impersonate them.

If you're not yet tired of the animals then you're almost as crazy as I am. And also you should check out my livejournal entry from yesterday. Three more pictures there. And if you go to the latest entry then you can see my recap of 2005, plus a statement about how I have never felt better than I do right now. Good times.

Also a new video on the video page. It's a little like the picture with all the goats and sheepies in it. You can seem them all in the vid. It's like seeing the pictures magically coming alive. And you don't even need to be psychic.

Take care out there in radioland. If I win the lottery then I'll invite you all to join me for a huge party at the playground. We'll spend all day having fun with the animals. It will be glorious.

Toodles!