Though they spend most of their time in their sheltered winter quarters, if the weather is nice, The Shush Sisters still come out each day for a walk. Sheila has dressed up for her outing and put a bow tie on her tail!! 
No, it is TonTon behind her. Though Ton appears to be wearing a brown top hat so this shot just gets worse and worse. 
Both Charlotte and Sheila are growing up into very nice looking piggies. For those of you who are new, these are Hereford Pigs Charlotte has the white face and sticky uppy ears. Sheila has brown smudges on her droopy ears. Charlotte is in more shots than Sheila because Sheila is almost always walking right at my heel like a well trained dog. I need to call the swine herd and make an appointment for Charlotte with the Boar. Not a very delicate thought is it.(?) Does a rhetorical question have a question mark?
Minty is also difficult to get a shot of as she is almost always standing on the other side of me, at her own heel. 
And what have we here. (?) A chook escaping back INto the chook house. Which of you chickens was playing with a ball inside, even though we have talked about this before and who broke a window? I will have to fix that tomorrow. Two more eggs today! Joy. 
The Daily View.
Good morning everyone. Today is shopping day so The Matriarch and I will take her big jeep into town and fill it with supplies for the next few weeks. We always start at the feed store and finish at the grocery store. The list is long. Not my favourite way to spend a day as you know but it is not as cold this morning and most of the ice has melted off the roads, so it is a good idea to just get it over and done with.
Have a lovely day. And if you are in Aussie I hope you find somewhere cool for the next week or so. The temperatures there sound scorching.
celi
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48 responses to “Look at my beautiful Shush Sisters”
The daily view is looking very picturesque these days. Love the Shush sisters out for a walk, and the discovery of another egg! Have a good shopping trip. At least you can do it all in one day, and you have company.
I agree with Juliet, the daily view is just gorgeous today. Just seeing it is cooling – and it is bloody hot here today! xx
The sight of you walking about the farmy with Minty on one side and Sheila the other must be something to see — and seeing it with my mind’s eye gave me a chuckle. Lucky TonTon isn’t the jealous type.
I’m reaching the point where a trip to a grocery store will be needed soon. I avoid them on the weekends and will venture out Monday or Tuesday. It will be nice to get out a bit.
I hope you had a successful day at the markets. Have a good evening & night, Celi.
Two more eggs and a very contented animal family and the darn shopping will be over by the time you read our posts: love the fact that feed has to come first! Actually the burning of the land IS necessary here in Oz to regenerate life, but us humans have gotten in the way of nature! I’m in a cool zone: just on 40 C yesterday, better today and from tomorrow anything is in the cards! So far comparatively lucky: no known loss of life, about 100 houses gone, 5000 people evacuated, 1000 by boats > Hobart [all this in Tasmania]. Twenty fairly contained fires in NSW, a couple of biggies in Victoria & SA – all lucky, as today’s temps inland not above 44 -45 C [38 C = 100 F]. Actually would love to be walking with the Shush Sisters on that itty-bitty snow 🙂 !
I guess no one tattled, or is that cackled, as to who was playing ball and broke the window.
It’s all relative, isn’t it! Love your Shush sisters. That’s how we loved our 2 piggie girls this past year. Good luck with the romantic interlude!
Your snowy pictures look so tempting and cooling – we are sitting on 31 today in the Land Down Under, heading for high 30’s by the middle of next week. Can I come and stay with you? I would love to cool down in some of your snow – the Shush sisters seem to be enjoying it very much.
Good luck with your shopping trip.
Great photo of the Shush sisters! And TonTon!
Is there anyone out there who loves to shop, especially for groceries? Not me. So once you put your order in, can they deliver your farmy needs? Just wondering? That would be awesome. Take care, BAM
If they would deliver groceries out here I would be ALL OVER IT!! That would be like the bestest thing in the world for me.. especially if they carry them into the kitchen. in fact if I had a van I would start a business but that would kind of defeat the purpose wouldn’t it! morning bam.. c
Maybe if many people request for this delivery service, it will evolve. Until then, gathering provisions is just a part of our daily lives. Take care, BAM
and at least for me.. it is just a winter thing.. I hope one day you can get a garden too.. c
Rhetorical question is easier for me verbally. Let’s google the question mark.
We catch a ferry to do our major shopping. Personally, I love it. If it includes the feed store and food co-op and I’m not rushed by bored cohorts or pressed to catch the next ferry back.
Best of luck with Charlotte’s ‘servicing’. The girls look strong and hearty by the way. Not that I know a stitch about raising pigs- but from a layperson – they are big and plump looking but still agile. That seems like a good thing. Maybe I should take my own advice. (?)
What a cool image to have captured! I think they do need question marks, I always use them, doesn’t anyone else? 😉