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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scared me half to death
My heart sank when I read that, glad it was food! Is that Marmalade in the tree? Tina looks happy, what a pleasure she must be for you. She sure makes me smile.
phewwww….who knew broccoli snots could be a good thing!
Tima…. what more is there to say? I am madly in love with a piglet !!! The other piggies look deliciously chunky, and it really suits Marmalade to sit in a tree….
Oh, how funny! Broccoli stalk masquerading as a snotty nose. Hope all is well, and I’m still loving the green grass shots.
Our weather is turning, at last. I woke up with cold feet, the first time for half a year! I’m so excited, because it means I can start my vegie garden. Give that gorgeous Tima a hug for me, chugging along up to her hairy little belly in grass. I’d never noticed, but broccoli stalks are snot green, aren’t they…?
If I had a piece of broccoli to hand I think I’d be snorting it with laughter 😉
Little wee Tima looks like she almost has to high-step to get over the grass with her short legs! 🙂
Glad to hear #3 is continuing to improve this morning. Thanks for the graphic mental imagery of the ploinker with broccoli up its’ nostril. You just added to all the list of reasons I have dislikes broccoli my entire life. Why can fans of broccoli not see that a veggie that is easily mistaken for a stringer of snot is not meant for human consumption? I’ve never liked the taste or smell of broccoli, now I will gag every time I see it too.
I wonder how many of the farmy animals will end up with identity disorders given that Marcel now thinks he is a calf, Tima thinks she is your adopted daughter with bits of dog & cat thrown in, Shelia is convinced she is your human equal and Boo thinks he is part St. Francis of Assisi & part professional nanny to species of every kind. Even Owl is changes her identity throughout the year. I guess the only thing that matters is if everyone is happy & that seems true enough.
Laughed reading this!! yes we are not short of identity crisis! fantastic.. c
This all sounds like the beginning of a most excellent week-end – as for that broccoli – one’s heart skipped a beat but all has ended well.
hopefully, I will not settle until there is no pig colds in the barn anymore.. I am becoming paranoid.. c
Surprise visitors of the best kind when the wine and conversation flows until late. Even the broccoli was a good surprise rather than the alternative. A happy day 🙂
If a piggie’s tail is at full mast the way plonker #3’s is, it just has to denote an improvement 🙂 ! Wonderful you could ‘celebrate’ it with friends and vino, or was it vino and friends!!!!!
All of the above I think! ni ni.. eha mama.. c
ni-ni Milady!!
Snot. Broccoli. I get them confused all the time. 🙂
That would have made my heart STOP!!! I’m sure it did yours also!
✿♥ღLinda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
I hope that No.3 will be accepted by the other two once he’s fully recovered 🙂