When she has trouble lifting her foot over the step that she usually trots over. If she had a hand she would be reaching for the door frame.
Queen Charlotte is large with child.. I mean pig.
Her belly is dropping and her teats are down and she waddles. But we must not forget Sheila who is desperate for Charlotte to be locked up in the maternity ward so that she can get to the food for once!
Lock her up, miss c. I’m half starved. She lies.
The sheep equivalent of a high five!
And here is a feast in the making. Apples, cherries and peaches. The trees are loaded.
And the grapes are full of promise. This is the Vidal Blanc my wine grape.
And now a new tree. They say that people who love trees believe in the future. Well we do. Don’t we. This is Fellowship Forest tree. For the Orchard.
This new tree has been planted for Zia. Chg Johns wonderful aunt and his partner in crime. They work together on his recipes and are a formidable team. I love Zia and am thrilled to have a tree in my orchard with her name on it. Good morning Zia, here are some flowers for you!
And the garden is most beautiful this year because of the cool damp weather I suppose.
Even puppies love flowers.
Good morning. In the night we had a torrential downpour and 4 inches of rain hit the ground in torrents in a matter of a few hours. Terrific thunder and lightening. A flash flood warning came through, on John’s phone, in the middle of the night. It came as a txt. This must be something new as we have never had one of these before. I imagine these will come if there is a tornado warning too so that is one piece of technology that makes perfect sense.
Today I shall bring all the large animals up onto the concrete yards so their big heavy feet don’t trample the grass right into the ground. The Shush Sisters had already put themselves to bed (in separate bedrooms I might add) in the barn so they were fine in the night. This rain was not in any forecast.
We have yet to check the gardens, but there was no wind, just heavy rain, so fingers crossed. Of course the fields are a lake. The ditches have risen up and flooded across the road and until the ditches go down there will be little drainage from the fields. And all the corn is only an inch or so high. Underwater. The little strip of non GM sweetcorn is on slightly higher ground so it has a good chance. That was a stroke of luck. It is almost 6am, still raining and the flood warning is in place until 9am so we will have a wet start to Memorial Day. And more rain in the forecast for this evening.
Well, time to start the day. Definitely a gumboot day.
We have a slew of fantastic new pictures from Back Door Steps so I shall load all of those for you today and launch them out into your world tomorrow morning. Unless I am busy building an ark.
Have a lovely day.
your friend in the rain, celi
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72 responses to “How do you know your pig is pregnant?”
Those two pigs really are special 😉
Sheila said she wants to come and live with you until all the messiness is over, she said she promises to be very quiet but may need some help on the stairs. c
She’s very welcome – I could take her for walks on Hampstead Heath 😉
with all the other dogs! she does bark you know, but only when she sees john, she uses a whole different voice for him than she does for me. With me she kind of whines.. imagine a pig up on The Heath.. priceless c
Gotta love that Sudden Prairie Weather…or not! Lovely flowers, and a perfect tree for Zia!
Have a good muddy day, C…the sun has come back to us here, and we’re heading out soon! 🙂
I’ll say, evidently there was hail too but it did not come across the gardens thankfully!.. I hope we get your sun soon, but i will have to check with Linda, we always get her weather after she is done with it! c
well now you can see that she is pregnant… good to know that it worked. she is due soon right? beginning of june? have a wonderful day!
Morning Cat! she is due June 17, wait let me count the days.. 21! and counting. They tell me that piglets can come up to a week early quite happily or a week late. So giive or take. c
Good morning Celi; well i am glad that everybody is in good shape did you get the hay put up?let me know . have a blessed day mike
No the hay is now completely drenched, not a show of it drying.. so what now.. the grass will be growing through it soon… c
Wonderful photos, as usual! I especially love the puppy nose in the peony!
When she starts craving pickles and ice cream? G’morning miss c
Morning Miss T! Did you have weird cravings like that i never did, all i wanted was salt! c
Chinese food and blueberry muffins with orange juice were my cravings…but not at the same time 🙂
ah.. vitamin c and msg! excellent choice.. c
Would you look at how beautiful your farmy is coming along this Spring Celi – just heavenly, although I hope the rains haven’t done any damage.
🙂 Mandy xo
No I just came in and the gardens are ok, the frog garden has had a good wooosh out too which is good for the water in there.. c
Good to hear. 🙂
Perfect sushi sisters weather!
We’ve had slot of rain here too but today the sun shines!! Out to the garden to see what seeds didn’t get washed away……
Take care today and happy Memorial Day.
I think you are typing on your phone aren’t you grammom! I hope your seeds survived! c
ooops, you guessed it!
I would have thought that Sheila would be looking forward to being an Auntie….maybe she is not the maternal type…
Oh dear, when I asked before about the floods you had not been affected and now you have. I do hope that my words did not put the ‘kyebosh’ on your situation( I think that word means ..badluck… my first husband always used it so I think that is what it means…
stay dry, stay safe and stay as sweet as you are!
My dad used to use that word too, i think it came from his father.. we should check its origins they may be interesting. I have a feeling it came from the war.. have a lovely day.. c
The permanent ending of something, making it impossible, as a heavy downpour can put the kibosh on a baseball game.Today’s Good Word is of mysterious origin. It first appeared as kye-bosk in 1836 in the story ‘Seven Dials’ in Charles Dickens’s Sketches by Boz.
Lyn you are star, thank you.. charlies dickens was a clever chappie! c
Lovely Shushes – I wonder if the babies will look like their Aunt! 🙂 I can’t believe how much further ahead your garden is than ours. But as we’ve been below 10 C for most of the last few weeks, perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. There are a few strawberries forming, so there must have been the occasional bee about!
With Charlottes sticky uppy ears (unusual for her breed) and Sheilas dark eyes. oh that would be a cute piggy.
Lucky ZIa, I bet she’s smiling right now. Charlotte looks so happy and fecund (is that the right word?) and I love that shot of little Blue’s snout 🙂
Blue has to look at everything I am looking at, he is turning into quite a handful…but he does listen thankfully.. c
I think I resembled Charlotte when I was pregnant. I understand how she feels. And Mr. Puppy with his nose pressed against the peony…he’s a dog after my own heart. The fruits are beautiful, and the baby peaches are funny…something sort of x-rated about those little fuzzballs, no? They make me laugh. As ever, thank you and have a great one!
Charlotte, you are wicked! (laugh) .. three weeks to go for your namesake.. lets hope she has lots of gilts for us to sell. c
It sure looks fruitful on that farmy of yours… love the flower photos…
Morning bulldog! c
that pic of blu smelling the rose is awesome! too cute! and you got more rain? lucky!!! i heard this morning that we might get rain tonight so my fingers are crossed! we will need it because it is about to get horribly hot here. my corn is about 8 inches high and off to a good start! enjoy your rainy memorial day!
I hope you get your rain soon, It is odd how you are still dry.. we are hoping to heat up this week at last, it is going to be humid and things will be growing at the rate of knots! c
Love piglets – oh so cute:) Beautiful Captures – love the dog nose sniffing a flower!