When I said good morning to you yesterday, this was the dawn I was seeing (above). Worth being a header I think? After I had quietly fed Charlotte, visited Sheila, fed the chickens and moved the sheep to a new pasture, and checked the cows, the dogs and I went for our walk around the boundaries. 
This is why Daisy is not popular with the fencer!
Charlotte and I opened the big door in the Barn Pig Pen yesterday (it has always been her job to open the doors so she has taken her confinement with ill grace) and out tumbled all the babies. Honking gently like ducks in the water. Steaming about on their jerky puppet legs like the indefatigable Thomas the Tank engine. 
She took them all back inside after the milking and settled them back in their back room so I jumped in and closed the doors back up against the night. I will open them again later this morning once the sun has gone from the run, we don’t want sunburnt baby piggies!
Good morning. Today the painter comes. And over the course of the next few days we will add colour to the Tiny House. So I cannot linger. He will begin on the wall repairs in the existing house and furniture needs shifting before he gets here. I have too much stuff. Some of it is going to be shifted straight into the garage sale pile!
A Peachick ( or the Chickpeas) is due any day now from Giraffe (the chook) and Tui’s (the peahen) are due at the beginning of next month. I am not sure about the remaining egg under Giraffe but Tui has been sitting solidly and I have high hopes.
Have a lovely day.
your friend, celi.
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another day in arcadia Celi – blissful
Great shot fo Daisy, with TonTon peaking through her legs — of course! Char is such a gentle mother. Good luck with the painters today. I can’t wait to see the coupe after they’ve gone. Have a fantastic day, Celi!
Have a great day!
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So true about the piglets getting sunburned Celi!!! We have to put sunblock on the babies, especially our heritage pigs with the big ears as they sunburn so easily…poor babies!
So excited about the progress on your houses! DO put lots and lots in the garage sale pile and try not to go back and pick things out again afterwards!!! Let them go, and they will be lots more room, less clutter and a freeing feeling. 🙂
I absolutely agree, I travelled for years with only two suitcases of stuff… now that was free!! c
I’ll take that country sunrise any day. Any day. Beautiful.
Just so much country isn’t there Audrey, I can see for miles and miles and miles! c
Ahhhhhhhh! Nice way to start the morning
(and cows will even do that with barbed wire….it’s that greener grass over there.)
Be sure you wear some sun block, too. We want you around for long term!
I am more of a cover up girl as opposed to a chemical sunblock girl.. So I wear my big hats! Believe it or not the sun is not nearly as nasty as it is in New Zealand, there you burn after 15 minutes of exposure, and we all need a little sun! c
Have heard about sun there from friends who sail.
You are farther north there than here – it’s blazing and quickly burns.
Big hats rule (some of those chemicals do make your skin itchy – should tell you something)
Broad brims are ahead of the glam hat trend of those little fascinators. (giggles)
Lovely images and isn’t it wonderful that the piglets take after their mother and not their father? Of course, it’s all in the (pig’s) eye of the beholder, but that big fellow was downright ugly!
Oh he was! We should revisit that shot actually and do a comparison, he had such a melancholy expression.. c
I can’t get over the babies. They are so cute and adorable. It makes me want to play with one really, really bad. XOXO – Bacon
Thanks for sharing yet another wonderful morning with us. Mmmm… and those baby piggies, aw!
Such a lovely day!
🙂 Mandy xo
I so love looking at those tiny fresh skinned little piglets! The gentle nudge is so the best!!
Linda
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A dawn definitely worthy of a header! Has Charlotte let you get close to the babies yet? And if not, do you have any idea if there is a “standard” waiting period? It would drive me crazy not to be able to touch them. 🙂
Wow, that sunrise is something else!! It looks, well…heavenly and not in the religious sense of the word, because I’m not well…religious…:) oh i really should get to the point…we rarely ever see a sunset, sunrise or just plain big sky at all here, because of all the thick trees but that view is just something else again! 🙂 It makes a beautiful header!
Those shots of Q. Char and her littles are so adorable, especially the nudge along! Yes, yes, bring on the ChickPeas!!
I’m curious if Shelia has seen the littles or wouldn’t Q. Charlotte allow that??
No Sheila is still living outside, she comes into the barn when it is hot but not close to Char. I would be worried about another big pig stomping about amongst those tiny bodies more than anything… I am sure there is a point when I can let her in.. but in a while.. c
I the love the half light of dusk and dawn. To me it means something wonderful is about to happen.