Well you know where this is going don’t you.
Sheila has to have a new wallow as the old one by the chook house is actually above an electrical cable. John pointed this out yesterday. I did not know that. All this mouldy hay needs to be incorporated into the stony field and she already had a hole there so we filled it with water.
But Sheila turned her back for a minute and Mr Opportunist was in like Flynn. 
I popped a little water into the piglets wallow too. They don’t get too much but they all turned and ran like crazy to their water hole when they saw the water coming in. They are all in top form. Playing and eating and drinking. They run everywhere, at top speed. I am watching them carefully.
Pigs and Mud.
We have had day after day after day of the most divine weather. The days have been hot but not too hot and the nights have been cool though summer warm. I hope that we settle down a little now and the days can begin a summer drift. Touch wood. Touch Touchwood.
Have a lovely day today.
your friend, celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
42 responses to “When life gives you mud: Wallow in it!”
I just found your wonderful blog a couple of days ago…… I am also in Illinois, just outside of Bloomington.
Miss Celi!!! you are a dandy with pictures!! and those piggies have grown!! it’s time for the second new batch!!
A British team of 2-Donald Swann and Michael Flanders, Flanders and Swann were rave success in shows in London and on Broadway. Their show was called A the Drop of a Hat, and they had hilarious songs; one of them was Mud, mud, glorious mud/ nothing quite like it for cooling the blood/so follow me, follow, down to the hollow, and there we will wallow in glorious mud – something like that; hugs
Remember it well!! LOL
Me too! Showing my age now. Joy
Oh, to be a pig or Blue. What a life. Enjoying the most stunningly gorgeous weather here in southeastern Minnesota, too.
Look at those happy piggies in the mud (and Boo!). This weather has been gorgeous. I’m hoping it stays a while. 🙂
‘The old wallow is above an electric cable. John pointed this out yesterday’
YESTERDAY?!
Good Lord! Lol
That Boo! He looks so at home in his own little wallow. What a mess! Thank heavens you leant about that cable! It’s surely heavily insulated but why risk disaster? That corner of your yard looks so lush and green. Isn’t Summer great? Have a good evening, Celi!
They must be the happiest pigs in America 😉
If only that piglet joy could be bottled…
This is the Way to Wallow – Great Captures!!! Happy Week:)
Good grief Celi, I can’t believe how much the piglets have grown! Enjoy the weather! 🙂 xx
‘The dog who thought he was a pig’. I can feel a children’s story coming on. Actually my artist friend Claudia has just illustrated a kid’s book about a pig who walked the Camino Trail in Spain. She studied a pig at the zoo in order to get it right.
What a muddy little dog he is! Then I’m sure he got the hose all over him for a nice bath.
Linda
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Well, city girl admitting I did not realize a wallow had actually to be dug and filled: silly me just thought the pig population used what rain provided 🙂 ! But, sugar how they have grown!! And they ARE having a wonderful life!! Now, am looking at that comfortable chair amongst all the greenery in the garden and wishing a certain lady had just a little time to sit back with a book and a mug of coffee . . . sigh . . .
Boo! What a stinker! Those piglets sure are enjoying themselves!