The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life, sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that binds us all together.

- Erma Bombeck

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Two Gone

Our friend picked up her two piglets today.  I was sad to see them go, but I am glad that they are going to a good home.  They will be well cared for and that makes for better meat in the end.  Chou Chou was one of the piglets to go.  She and Standard will be buddies from now on.

It's amazing...Chou Chou is almost as large as the average piglets now.  Of course, she hasn't caught up to the biggest girls in the bunch, but it has gotten harder to pick her out of the crowd.  I'm so glad that just a little extra was all she needed.  We stopped bottle feeding her about two weeks ago.  She's been doing very well, holding her own and eating lots of grain.

Now we just need to find homes for the other six.

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