Of surprise when visitors arrive, complete with bottles of wine, at dinner time when there is plenty to eat. So everything except food and conversation (and of course the bottles of wine) is gently put aside until the morning. 
Today the sun is shining, we are warming up a little and the calves are galloping about the field with poor Marcel trying desperately to keep up on his short wooly legs feeling a little like a piggie in the middle of his coltish friends. 
Number Three is still improving this morning and after the milking as I carried the buckets of milk past the middle pen, to my horror, I heard the red pig make a snorting sound and saw that he had a snotty nose. My heart sank and I put the buckets down on a brick where Tima could not knock them over and climbed into their pen. On closer inspection the runny nose was a piece of limp broccoli stalk. My heart lifted, my buckets were lifted and I carried on.
Now I am off outside to pick three buckets of weeds for the pigs Morning Tea.
I hope you all have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farmy
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
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Like having a bit of spinach between your front teeth! People think you’ve chipped the tooth. I hope it is warmer where you are – it is a bit warmer here, and the rain has stopped. Enjoy your weekend. You will see the start of a twin for your chain on my 6-word Saturday: http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/six-word-saturday-47/
It is slightly warmer, but I am still in my wretched clown pants, tomorrow will be chilly and grim again and then TADA the next day will be warm, proper like!. However today is a perfect day for gardening Viv. Just as soon as I finish my coffee I am off out. c
Thank you for this wonderful post.
Could you hear my intake of breath when you mentioned the red pig? Sometimes you are not good for my heart!! 😉 Glad all is well and that you relaxed with visitors, food and vino!
Someone is still sleeping it off in the Coupe!.. c
Hopefully that is a good sign!
Oh those heart-stopping moments! 🙂 Have a great day Celi!
Thats good. I did pray for sunshine for you so its good to see thag it happens
Gorgeous celebration of simple pleasures
very beautiful click 🙂
So happy to hear the little piggy just has a broccoli problem and nothing more serious.
He may have a drug problem, trying to snort the broccoli!
LOL!!!
Marmalade perched in a tree, Tima walking in grass that is probably tickling her belly and little piggy behinds. Wonderful pictures to see on a Saturday morning! Enjoy you gardening days in the sunshine.
After rain and thunderstorms the sun is shining here in Germany but a very cold north wind is blowing. I’m returning to California on Wednesday.
Very funny limp broccoli. I know that feeling of always being on hyper-alert. I was in a downtown department store when I spotted someone’s bare legs sticking out from behind a counter. My heart leapt to my throat. In the next instant I realized it was a mannikin lying on the floor.
Which reminds me of a friend in high school who liked to play tricks on boys. She worked in a dime store in the nylons dept. and when she saw a cute boy coming down the aisle, she’d stick a bare mannikin’s leg into the aisle and caress it pretending it was her own leg–
That is hilarious! She sounds wild.. c
3 Perfect Piggies 🙂 Laura
Ah, the old vegetable up the nose trick! I had a toddler do it with a frozen pea, which thankfully thawed and came out with a good blow. So happy it wasn’t the start of something nasty. Yay!
I really just need to give Tima a big snuggly hug. Or a good cwtch, as my Welsh friends would say. I think she must be the prettiest pig in all of America.