Charlotte is doing a lot of heaving herself about, snapping at Sheila, hogging all the food and has taken to lying on her side taking up most of the bed. Sheila is being long suffering. Charlotte is unrepentant. As you would expect.
I have chosen the site for this years summer pig palace but it is presently under snow. Yes it snowed. And you know how I love the snow. I do. But the Shush Sisters will have to wait in their Winter Quarters for a bit longer.
Queenie Wineti loves the snow too. The rest of them spent most of the day in the barn. Good Authority (Author) has a very sleepy cats-eyes look.
Very green.
Everyone has quietly talked me into opening all the barn doors to the pens so they can come back in. I will have to set to and clean the floors all over again next week, but the weather being so inclement, I feel better if they have proper shelter.
The Son of the Son of Neanderthol Man – We call him Bob.
He is not a pretty rooster.
Now, I need you to help me. Here is a shot of the underside of Kupa’s tail feathers, he was sitting on a rafter with his tail draped down behind him. See that pink that is not quite a pink, I want to create a stain in that colour for the kitchen cabinets in The Coupe.
But what would it be called. Pink is so … well pink and this is blowsier, a faded dustier shade of something. I like it. Just the merest stain though, too much would be awful.
Good morning. I have no way of judging depth of snow as it blew up some lovely snow drifts last night but it seems we finally got a proper dump of snow in the night, a nice drop of precipitation for the fields. Excellent. It will warm up into the 40’s today, so they say, which means it will start to melt into the ground where it belongs straight away.
Good morning. This week is a big week for the Coupe. Today if anyone can get through, the electrics will be finished, tomorrow the man will spray the insulation, then the next day (hopefully) the doors and windows arrive, then on to cladding and dry walling.
Exciting.
I hope you all have a lovely day. It is time for me to put on all my clothes and find my way out to the barn through the snowdrifts. I have told John NOT to start scooping the snow out until I have taken some pictures for you. See you tomorrow.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
53 responses to “Can pigs get morning sickness?”
It’s been lovely taking a trip though all the Comments Lounge colour suggestions… my morning feels all rosy! Ginger tea for Charlotte? That Author is such a cutie 🙂
Poor pigs! Do let the animals in to the barn – it sounds like lots of sheep and cattle might have been killed in the blizzards here in Britain this weekend 😦
oh miserable, yes when the bad weather comes in I open the doors again, but it is not terribly cold, just wet. But I am a sook and I hate them to be wet..you must be having some dreadful blizzards out there.. c
Perhaps your sweet Charlotte just needs a good maternity massage to make her feel better.
That is a lovely dusty pink/purple. I would suggest you simply name it Perfect Peacock Pink but I don’t think that would help you any.
I know that they’re meant to be able match colours in the DIY store, can they do that in your area? You just wave the picture you want or line it up with their wonderful wall of sample colours. 🙂
Oh I am sure I can, it will just be a wash, so as not to be too loud.. c
I was going to say ‘Provencal Rose’, but then read ‘Ashes of Roses’ above: I so remember that dress from ‘Thorn Birds’ . . . Of course Charlotte can feel miserable and ornery and the poor gal does not even understand what the heck is happening!!
ashes of roses certainly sounds good…c
I think of the name of the pink colour as ‘Rosetta’.
Poor Charlotte, maybe she needs some raspberry leaf tea or fennel tea for her upset tummy….
that is exactly what she needs, fennel tea.. a nice hot cup.. c
I agree with Eha. Poor Charlotte is confused. She thought she met the boar of her dreams and, instead, she got … well … a different dream altogether. She’ll be fine. Maybe MaMa and Daisy could have a talk with her. As for your pink dilemma, I’m probably the last person on Earth to answer a color-related question. I’m sure one of your readers will come through for you. They always do. 🙂
Spring. Spring. Spring. Just keep thinking it. Maybe it will come soon. 🙂
That’s a lot of progress in store for The Coupe this week! What a lovely space it’s going to be. Cute photo of the sheep, though we can see everything but their heads!
I would call it ‘hidden pink’ or ‘peacock’s secret’. How exciting about the Coupe!
I’m seeing Dusty Peony!
I love that color! And I can’t wait to see Charlotte’s babies. For some reason – I just love me some pig babies – XOXO – Bacon
Kupa’s feather color reminded me of a phrase I hadn’t heard in years to describe what I saw as a similar thing: ‘ashes of roses’. This, however, is a warmer and cheerier version I might just call Blushing Peacock. 😉
It’s a challenge when you have this colour in your head and you want to match it. I”m not sure if Benjamin Moore Paints is in the states. But if it is you can take a couple of the tail feathers in and they will match the colour. I took an eggplant (aubergine) in to our paint store and they had it spot on. Good Luck Celi.