i fed the piglet
[this will be the chorus of today's song, repeat every three lines]
the picture is blurry because milk makes Kowhai wriggle with delight
then i fed myself
washed down with
the picture shows the 'before'
it tastes good after the relevant buttons have been pressed
but is less attractive...
[then i fed the piglet again]
Sam would like the piglet to be fed...to HIM.
Felix was unimpressed.
Max didn't care
after a while i wandered off down a backroad
a little out of my own patch
signs were in the sky
and by the road
and when i stopped to have a look at something over a fence
a border collie shimmied silently along
gave me an appraising look
and came over for a cuddle
...bonus dog therapy!!
putting me in high good spirits
so
i went home again
and after yet more pig-feeding
made another book
taking advantage of the discount offer
at Milk + Moleskine books
available until March 31
and highly recommended!
As a child who lived on a farm we always had the 'runt' piglet in the woodbox next to the stove!!! Wrapped snugly in a cuddly rug they were indistinguishable (sometimes) from the many babies in our family and required feeding as often as the babies!!
ReplyDeleteall i can say is you must have had jolly pretty piglets if it let to confusion....
Deleteer, i meant "led"
Deletesounds to me you are already in a heavenly place, ok no rainbow but sign in the air and on the road and free dog therapie....wauw!
ReplyDeletewell i figure if you wake up breathing that's a pretty good start...on this particular day everything just got better!
DeletePiglet has beautiful markings. I'm so enjoying reading about him .... and your day on the farm.
ReplyDeleteshe's quite enchanting.
DeleteYour book looks wonderful, India! As does your daily life. Good luck to all you care for!
ReplyDeletei had the ministrations of a border collie last friday, very good medicine. piggie is a cutiepie.
ReplyDeleteglad to see piggy is doing well. My father was a shepherd, and I can well remember orfan lambs being placed in the plate warming part of the aga, wrapped in a blanket, to recover from a freezing cold winter day or night. In no time they would be wobbling round the kitchen on little black legs( Suffolk sheep)asking for food.
ReplyDeleteTook my dog to the dog park today twice.She rewards me with ear washing kisses as I fasten her into the car.
Suffolks are very smart. They can walk straight through fences without even batting their eyelashes.
DeleteI feel good reading your post as I have been down with a sore throat, the seeing your day lifted my spirits. That piglet is impossibly cute.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful day.
ReplyDeleteI love all of your animal family...but that small wee pig is just so adorable. Puppy therapy never fails! You make my heart smile! Peace, Mary Helen Fernandez Stewart
ReplyDeleteOh my, that pig is CUTE!
ReplyDeletePiglet causes smiles to break out all around the whirled.
ReplyDeleteOk, I am easily confused. Can we see your book at the link? Or the general site.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link in either case. I want to make myself a notebook for jotting and include some images of my collage. Even if these are not spiral bound, at least they lay flat! But I would like to see your book...
It's only the link...I made the book as a portable show-and-tell but I don't think Milk offer an on selling service. Or public viewings...
DeleteFLIP FLOPS!!! Have not seen my own toes out from under cover for about six months now. What fun to make a mental *great escape* through your post here, in more ways than tootsies! Piglets, dawg friends, books, nourishing food ~ you're definitely already a millionairess ;>]]
ReplyDeletelovely cats.
ReplyDeleteLG Grace www.zeit-fuer-dich.blogspot.de
about that sweet sweet piglet. will it stay stripey? or is that it's morning coat only ? or has this litle piglet been to the hairdresser to get that look .
ReplyDelete[ only jokong about the hairdresser i might add, in case animal lovers, of which i am one , are mortified. ]
those are her baby rompers. when she grows up she will be wearing a skin-tight bronze lamé bodysuit...
DeleteWe had piglets , well more like weaners, come to live in our walled garden, to do the digging and eat the weeds. So cute, and loved cuddles as much as dogs, and loved to play hide and seek with the children. Very intelligent beings. Your cutiepie looks so well loved, and very pretty indeed.
ReplyDeletewe have a slightly older piglet also. she is already a splendid digger. i dream of having
DeleteRAIN again one day, to soften the earth
after which the piggies may feel inclined to dig over the vegetable patch.
and walls would be splendid, to keep the drying winds at bay!
India is this a wild piglet? Doing by its stripes, or is there a breed that looks like one? I had a friend who raised a wild piglet, male, and he was lovely, but huge when he grew up.
ReplyDeletenot wild. that would be illegal. eek. but rescued from a petting zoo at the local ag show so no pedigree attached.
Deletewill be a bronze beauty when she grows. and thank goodness she IS a she...the thought of a giant boar trying to sit on my lap is slightly unnerving.
a fun visit for me. ;-D
ReplyDeletegood story pictures.
piglet is sweet. as are the kitties and the border collie.
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ReplyDeleteit's not seriuous, it's just people who love to watch the clouds and take pictures of them and share them on their blog. No other rules :)
The piglet is so cute (though I really don't like pigs!) What a fun and inspiring day!
ReplyDeleteThe piglet... Who could resist saving this little guy? Bravo Wild Rose! I too, had a little American piglet that I bottle fed with glass bottles which were baby bottles for human babies - he was that little, but strong enough to root it out of your hands if you didn't hang on tight! Really tight. Thank you for opening a new layer in my lifelong affair with plants. It's seeing everything in my garden, in the timber and roadside with new eyes. Happily stitching my first linen top for the dye pot. I am thinking Japanese Maple leaves and seed pods with a second dying with a blackberry mixture...with a smidgen of alum. It has begun...so very grateful, India.
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