You asked to see Tima’s eye. Well sure, I said. But it was actually quite a difficult assignment. This little kunekune is either very busy elsewhere or fast asleep at my feet. And when I do get a close up it is all eye lashes.
But I did try:
hmm ..
This is what I saw in the end though. Total disinterest! I will try again. 
Speaking of tails. Poppy has been sitting in her wallow. Check out her tail. 
And here is Marcel and his eye. 
Dishes –
The older chooks are free now and wandering in and out of the Bastard Mink house, I am not so worried. The door is permanently open because Sheila and Poppy sleep in there now. I am fairly sure they will not be pleasant if a mink interrupts their sleep!
No storm chasing yesterday. But sadly two of the big pear trees had to come down. The fire blight is decimating my apple and pear trees. So they had to be cut down and removed from the property. I felt sick watching it happen. But there is no choice now. The blight has taken over. And if I don’t get rid of these ones the young trees will be infected and i will lose the whole orchard.
Sad.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farmy
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
34 responses to “In a Pigs Eye”
Marcel is looking more and more like Hairy Maclairy everyday. Tima and Marcel have beautiful soft eyes. Such a heart ache to lose trees, worse when they are productive fruit trees, but it looks like the blight is really nasty and doesn’t leave you too many alternative options. Laura
haha it’s hard to get to the eye there, but they look very kind and happy! That tail of Poppy’s made me laugh out loud though 🙂
I’m so sorry to hear about the trees. Lovely eyes your four-legged friends have! 🙂
It is sad to lose trees, but I guess it must be done — one of the hard parts of farming.
Hate taking any tree down! But better a few for the sake of many!!! Hope Viv’s and mine are still around 🙂 ?
What beautiful eyes Tima and Marcel have. Oh, those lovely lashes!! We fight fire blight every so often. I catch it on a branch of the apple tree and hack it off and spray with a Clorox solution. Then sterilize the loppers with bleach, too. Burn the affected branch. This seems to stop it in its tracks. So far the pear trees have never been bothered. The apple trees are 70 years old and I would be sick to lose them.
Hmm, I wil try that with the last one.. so you spray the clorox on the cut?
Yes, spray the cut and trunk of the tree by the cut. I cut the branch right to the trunk. Fire Blight will infect other trees thru loppers and other instruments used on infected tree. Do not let infected branch touch anything else after you cut it. Clorox anything that comes in contact with fire blight. It is a contagious virus (I think it is a virus…..any way it is contagious).
I agree.. it is a nasty sucker..
Love your attempt to get their point of view! Glad to be back reading your wonderful blog!
That’s a tough one with the trees…hope you sort it.
Tima is such a pretty piggy and she has beautiful eyes…thanks for trying to capture them. Loved the close-up of our Marcel, too. Still smiling, I see. Sad about your pear trees and hope that they are the last and only victims of the blight.
Marcel looks so big! Tima does have some eyelashes. Sorry to hear about your trees, it’s a sad day when a tree disappears from the landscape.