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The Buzzard’s Like Us…

The Buzzard’s Like Us…

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** “The Boys” seem to like us….. They appear to have taken up permanent residency in the back pasture…all around Mama Pig’s pen….. …..my father used to refer to a group of buzzards as “the Boys”…(I’m sure fifty percent of them were probably girls…but they were always just “the Boys” to my Dad)….. Normally they are only here for “a reason”….. …..an unfortunate (but necessary) clean-up-on-aisle-six-sort-of-thing….. But now they seem to be here permanently…..(?)……..

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The Necessity of Vultures

The Necessity of Vultures

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Vultures (or buzzards) are a necessary bird….. They get a bad rap…..but they do a great service….. …..there are lots of “clean-ups on Aisle 6” when you’re on a farm or in the country….. …..vultures are efficient…..and surprisingly quick….. They have a pecking-order (HA!) and a running-tally-system of what gets eaten first…second…and third….. We collect the skeletons of what’s left after the vultures and insects have finished their clean-up-duties….. …..actually…..I’m not sure why…

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***Mama Pig’s In The House***

***Mama Pig’s In The House***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Remember when Mama Pig’s boy toy ran away after their nice new pen was finished being constructed?….. …..he made that aquaman-escape through the cattails….. …..the last time we saw him…..he was hysterically splashing and doing his best breaststroke due east through the swamp….. …..never to be seen again….. Well………. …..three months and three weeks and three days (115) later (a sow’s gestation)…..piglets arrived….. Okay…..Okay…..Okay…..we are the worst at chaperoning boy pigs and girl…

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~~~Re-Visiting The Pig Styes (Sties?)~~~

~~~Re-Visiting The Pig Styes (Sties?)~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** At the risk of being repetitive….. They’re just so beautiful….. They need to be re-visited & expounded upon….. I know it’s probably weird being excited about completed pig styes (sties?)….. But they’re so gorgeous….. They brings tears to my eyes (and it’s not the pig-poop that’s doing it)….. My older daughter and Grey have finished the two pens….. …..one more pen…

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…and these little piggies went to market…

…and these little piggies went to market…

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(The-Pig-Saga…..continues)….. *******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** When Will This Porcine Madness End!?!….. It’s Madness…..!!!….. Madness I Say…..!!!….. We probably had more pigs than I ever wanted to admit….. …..(I think about fifteen of them have recently left the property)….. We first found homes (with one of B.J.’s friends) for the five itty-bitty piglets (from the nasty/feral sow)….. Then my older daughter and I had to re-construct…

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***Market-Bound Piggies***

***Market-Bound Piggies***

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* …..(The Saga of the Pigs…continued)….. *******Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel******* …..so where did we leave off?….. We already had the three big boars loaded in B.J.’s trailer….. …..my older daughter and I were so thoroughly spent & exhausted….. …..the hogs had full bellies…..what with all of the dog food & cat food & hand-fed eggs….. …..not to mention the serenading….. But we weren’t done….. We were almost…

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~We’re On Elsa Watch~

~We’re On Elsa Watch~

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*******Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel******* By the time this posts….. Elsa should be past us….. She could have been a lot bigger….. She’s got hurricane force winds (74mph+) and moving super slow….. …..about 12mph-ish….. …..right over us….. We can/should be grateful for that….. …..it could have been so much worse….. …..we were lucky….. …..but the worry never lessens…..there’s always worry….. We’re at the waiting stage now….. …..that stage where you don’t know if you’ve…

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***The Hog Hilton***

***The Hog Hilton***

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*******Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel******* Well…….Finally…..!!!….. The hogs finally have their newly finished pig pen….. ………………………….AND…………………………. …..the rainy season hasn’t even begun yet….. …..the first dusty splatter of rain hasn’t started….. …..the summer’s reliable muddy-quagmires haven’t begun puddling yet….. Ralph did all the necessary work….. ***Glossary—(Ralph Defined)*** …..he used our surplus telephone poles as super/secure posts….. …..he was able to make use of the surplus sheets of 5-V Crimp that have been laying around……..

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~~~The Pigs New Digs~~~

~~~The Pigs New Digs~~~

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*******Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel******* FINALLY! The pigs have new additions to their abode currently underway….. …..and the reconstruction is almost completed…..!!!….. Tra!  La! FINALLY! …..this is all because of our skilled friend, Ralph….. Last week Ralph chain-sawed some of our stored telephone poles….. He made them into some very sturdy/big/long-lasting posts for the new & improved pig sty….. The sty is larger now…..so the pigs can stretch out….. AND…..it’s drier!!! Next week Ralph…

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~~~The Saga-Of-The-Piggies…(cont.)~~~

~~~The Saga-Of-The-Piggies…(cont.)~~~

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And you thought my muddy-piggy-posts were over….. HA!….. Silly you….. One would think that a mother pig would have an applicable plan for the survive-ability of her children….. …..one would think that….. One would expect that a mother pig would seek out the safest/warmest environment for her porcine-pudgy-piglets….. …..one would think that….. …..but one would be….. …..wrong….. My older daughter kept going out and checking on the Mama and her babies….. …..around the clock….. …..(my daughter was more sleep-deprived than…

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