Meet Ribbons

Meet Ribbons! She is my perfect kind of award winning pig.  No pen cleaning, feeding, or walking required.  This was Mary Ellen’s pink princess pumpkin pig for the Pringle-Morse pumpkin decorating contest. Mary Ellen shopped to pick out all the special pig accessories.  The crown was a candle ring.  She had to have a purple tutu.  Then […]

Rattling My World

This morning is literally rattling my world! It has been a long time coming.  I had plenty of time to adjust, but I forget how disturbing it is to have changes to your home.  This morning jackhammers & skidloaders began removing concrete from my back patio.  As I calmly, this is how I picture it […]

Stinky Habits

Stinky habits are hard to break.  Fortunately, Copper doesn’t smell!  This morning, in the dark, when Mark & ME went out to let Copper out of his pen, the skunk was locked in Tobyn’s pen; resting in Tobyn’s dog house. Tobyn gets a new dog house…(By the way, Mark said Copper growled & barked a low bark in that direction […]

“Skunked”

Sometimes life simply does not work out they way we envisioned.  The other night our old dog, Copper, got “skunked”.  It was a funny & terrible event all rolled into one. I went out after dark to feed the dogs.  Their pens are to the north of the house.  The light from the driveway shines […]