Duuuuuuuuuuuuude.......

This is Liz. Not only is she Lana's sister, as you can see, she is her neighbor also. And like her sister she also has had a most excellent litter of lill red babies with some most excellent potential champions. (read that twice) There were roughly 25 pigs between them so a few are "eating out" so to speak to make room for the others and so all lill bellies get full of milk but sooner or later they will be reunited, you might say a "reed-union"!!!

Got a call from Lori about an hour ago with some questions about a heater, her weekend and it ain't working right but we gotter goin. Yes the photo of the flood is in the past and now we are dealing with a little snow, -5 temperatures and -20 wind chills, go figure. As of the time of this post to my knowledge nothing is froze beyond repair or reheating but the day is young.

I think we are going to venture out again to test our metal and see what is going on so I must go get my insulation on, which as I get older seems to take longer and require more items to do the job that only a few used to do, and then out we will go.

For now all is functioning normally, all are warm and cozy and all is well on the farm once again.

Lil Red Babies.....

This is Lana, (she is the big one with all the food spouts) and Lana is one of our "home grown" girls and, as you can see, she just had a brand spankin fresh outa the box new litter of little red babies and they are doing just fine. We are quit sure their are some future mommies in the bunch and if you look close you will see the biggest baby boy (Grand Champion what you say) lying right up next to the food spouts waiting for the dinner bell (grunter bell) to sound. He didn't get that big by being last in line!!

Well, the day is almost over, the fog, drizzle, and snow are about to give way to some below zero temps, the piggies are asleep, we are home and all is well on the farm once again......:)

Well, I don't know about you, but this old body doesn't appreciate a change in temperature of this magnitude!!! The weather went from ice to flood in about a week causing undo stress and strain to all who had to be out in it (us) and I can't say it did much for the ones who were stuck inside either. At this point in time the weather man is calling for Sunny and 40 today, snow tomorrow and temps falling next week to only 20s for highs, go figure. Kim and Susan are stuck inside where they are from all the snow throwing darts at one another to stay unbored (my word) but at least that is consistent and isn't such a strain on the system...the weather I mean, not the dart throwing.

Mother Nature is giving us her usual fits at the Unit as well and although we know it is coming it is still difficult to accept as something we can do little to change but we are inching in that direction ever so diligently, although I believe she will win in the end. We have started having our 4-H pigs and I must say they look pretty good at this point in time. The initial litters out of Paint Shop (our boar) are very good looking little boogers and me thinks me smell a few Champions in the mix!! The Duroc gilts are due next week and everything Lori and I have are crossed for luck in anticipation of some most excellent replacement gilts as well as a few Champion barrows (that's unbored for you city folk) for the fairs.

It is time to make an attempt to get all the Christmas lights down before the snow so I will take my leave of you, (I like that, got it from Spock's dad in "The Journey Home") everyone is home playing except Steve, it is his weekend, and all is well on the farm once again..........