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   Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 12:05:25 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

   No new baby goats this morning (just the 4 from the last few days). The mama who's been *gigantic* for the last month is due today, so hopefully she'll have lots of healthy babies! I predict 4 (and I predict she'll have them at the most obnoxious time...I have lots of meetings today, but I have even more meetings tomorrow that are way less flexible, so today would be great!)

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     Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 12:05:23 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

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     Still no new goats. Put the very pregnant goat back outside in the rain because she was annoyed about being in the barn. Now she can be annoyed about the rain instead...

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     Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 12:05:23 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

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     Still no babies! Ugh this poor mama is so uncomfortable, and I will have to get up at 2am again. SIGGGHHHH. At least she's the last goat due to have babies for a little while, and maybe we'll be fully above freezing for the next batch...

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     Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 12:05:24 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

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     ...Still no new goats. Guess I'll be blearily running out to the barn in between Zoom meetings and cancelling things if there are babies

     But today it's steadily raining! The land needs it so badly, you can almost hear the trees relaxing.

     It's also funny to observe which animals hate the rain and which don't care.

     goats: deep rain hatred
     horses: don't care
     llama: does he even notice it's raining?
     chickens: hide in the coop
     ducks and geese: partaaayyyy!

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     Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 12:05:24 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

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     Oh what the fuck it's snowing now? Blah.

     (But we need precipitation of any kind...take a deep breath and accept it gratefully!)

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     Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 12:05:24 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

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     Not snowing anymore. Going to take a quick outside screaming/check-on-goats break before a faculty meeting starts. I'm super grateful I can do all this via Zoom and check on goats in between, but this is too much Zoom for me...just 3 more days of this stupid time-suck committee (and writing up reports after) and then I'm DONE with it

     (to be fair, I've learned a lot from being on the committee, I just wish it was a 2 year term instead of a 3 year term...almost done)

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     Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 12:05:25 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

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     ...still no new babies.

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     Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 12:05:25 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

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     still none...

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     Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 12:05:25 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

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     Still no new babies. I'll be checking at 2am again. SIGH.