Merry Christmas, Mad. Says Sheila.
Sorry the Santa Hat is purple but it was a last minute aquisition.
What about me? Says Timatanga Moana. (Who wants everything that anybody else has.) Where is MY hat?
Here you are then. A Christmas party hat for Tima.
Bet you wish you had never asked for a party hat. Says Tane.
Shut UP! Says Tima. I like this hat! 
It has antlers and everything!
Good morning, says Sheila. I hope you have a lovely day. A lovely Christmas Day. We have been promised extra carrots if we smile whilst wearing our hats. Poppy ate hers. More carrots for me! Life is good. Celi says to tell you that she would never have thought of putting a Christmas hat on my head if it had not been for MadDog. So thank you Mad Dog. Thank you very, very freaking much.
Find something lovely today. There is always something.
Love your piggie friend on the farmy
Sheila
ps. Miss C has decided to sleepwalk the day away. She is always better on Boxing Day. She is never at her best at Christmas. Me? I love Christmas.. the leftovers are fantastic.
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60 responses to “Party Hats”
love the hats
enjoy the day
Morning Ron! love sheila
Happy Christmas, Sheila. xx
Morning Misky it is TonTon here, I want your dog to teach me how to catch mail!.. c
Happy Christmas, TonTon. Firstly, get your mittens on a saw. Then cut a long horizontal slot in the front door. That’s where the postman throws stuff at you to fetch. Tell me when you have that whole sawed in the door. Until then …. woof! Molly
ROFL! Thanks Cecilia and Sheila, of course 🙂
Mad, Celi says we are coming over for Goose and sloe eyed gins, but I am a little concerned about the seating arrangements, do you think it would be ok if I ate mine on the couch. I am a couch potato kind of pig. . Poppy is not coming. I have locked her in the back. You don’t want her in your house – she is a menace. See you soon. Sheila.. ps I am old enough to drink!
Ok Sheila – you are very welcome to the couch. I can see that the vegetable shop across the street is open today and can get some extra pumpkin and vegetables for you 😉
Oh!! FABulous party hats! Sheila, I am wearing your t-shirt at a big family Christmas celebration in Dallas, Texas! Sheila rocks Dallas!!
You are obviously a woman of exemplary taste.. love Sheila.
fantastic party hats, you all look very beautiful Happy Piggy Christmas Day
Miss Whip it is Son of Neanderthol man here, may I please borrow your whip to move these cats along, they keep hogging the roosts! c
Oh dear Mr Son of Neanderthol I am so sorry to hear of your predicament and I do understand the anguish that you are experiencing but hitting cats with a whip is not a good idea. I think that you should chatter to them in a friendly sort of way and explain that cats should not sleep in roosting areas. The farmy is large enough for you all to find a spot of your own to call home
Merry Christmas Sheila, you look lovely in purple sequins and fur.
Morning Deb. It is Godot. I told Sheila she should wear more fur, as it shows off her eyes and she said she is off to skin a cat. I told her that was not acceptable behaviour and she laughed at me and said Just Kidding! Give me a white feather for my hat. Well. Deb. Naturally I was appalled! A pig wearing feathers.!. What would the neighbours say.. Tara! Godot.
It is just me and my husband and our pups this Christmas. He resents the aloneness and I love it (but then I about always love it). I’m going to do my Christmas walk with the dogs walking around my garden and then the state park to log all the plants that are blooming today.
Dear Lacey. This is Queenie Wineti. Can you please take me for a walk in the park too. Miss C has put me on a diet which means rubbish hay. I hate this hay. I would not even waste SPIT on it. Let Elsie eat it – I am not – I said to her. I want a walk in the park I said. Miss C said I was a little rotund,( ROTUND! The cruelty of it!) and needed to eat a bit less anyway. So can I come for a walk with you? I am sure there will be something nicer to eat in your garden. I will be waiting at the letter box, can you send a car? .. c
Love the hats – and the piggy attitude. 🙂
Tane: I have always thought that a pig without an attitude is like a carrot without a crunch. Dull.
Love the festive hats and to tell the truth Tima reminds me of one of the Swedish Christmas dolls in hers. Gave me a good chuckle this morning.
Morning Vesta, Tima here. Thank you SO MUCH for getting the doll reference. I AM a doll. A Living DOLL. The sweetest of all the piggies here. Oh wait. Tane is running off with my bowl. Wait there I will be back. TANE MAHUTA YOU FAT BOTTOMED THIEF> JUST WAIT TIL I CATCH YOU! PUT MY BOWL DOWN ! DOWN I SAID. YOU HAD BETTER NOT SPILL ANY OF MY CHRISTMAS PORRIDGE YOU MISERABLE EXCUSE FOR A PIG!
Glad to know you are modest too Tima!
I laughed while reading this. Oh MadDog…thank you so very very freaking much for suggesting it!!
Connie, Godot said to tell you that he saw the letter box man throw sticks for BooBoo.. He said he does not mean to be a tittle tattle but he did not think that was professional behaviour. We need to discuss the conveyance of the mail. Pania and I are considering applying for the Letterbox mans job. We could just fly over the houses and drop the letters straight down the chimney. What do you think?.. love Tui
Sheila, you look maaaarvelous! And Timatonga Moana looks rather smug in her Christmas finery. Excellent idea, Mad Dog. It is 40 degrees Fahrenheit this morning in central Texas with a few cotton candy clouds as the sun comes up. Looks like it is going to be a lovely day. The cats woke me up to alert me to an urgent problem this morning, empty bowls! All is well again after a few kibble pours. Merry Christmas!
Dear Kim, I am typing this for The Rooster in the Hen House. He is sat at the window calling these words out to you. love .Elsie.
Kim when next you come to visit I am to be placed in Kims Chook House with these three big hens, miss c has come up with the idea of hatching our eggs in an incubator that she has not bought yet. The problem is that these three big hens are Deeply Boring. I am not sure i can bear to be locked in with them. Plus this whole breeding program sounds a little suspect to me. Why does she want so many fat chicks. It is all so – not nice. Anyway. I was wondering if you are bringing your sewing machine. Maybe you could make a wee curtain so i could have a private area in the chook house, somewhere to get away from the Deeply Boring Hen natterning. What do you think?
Love the big handsome rooster with the double red comb.
make sure to tell miss c to get the incubater with the fan to circulate air inside , it will improve your childrens hatch percentage. then you will be free to chase the hot chicks, and pretend you never hooked up with those boreing old biddys
i get yelled at for not being polite to those boreing old biddies in my flock, but ron does not understand the bantam hens are pretty hot.
from badass bob, the rooster
Dear Handsome Rooster with the double red comb…you need a proper name, will think on that. A proper length of burlap could do just the trick for your private solarium. It’s a definite possibility, tho I believe that Miss C has a very nice sewing machine gathering dust in the Coupe. We will get it out and put it to work. 🙂
Sheila and Tima are sure rocking those hats! I read this to my husband this morning. And then read aloud your Christmas post from three years ago. Your writing is still so true and honest and powerful. WE are alone this morning for the first time since our babies were small. They now have their own families and traditions to create, and we will all be together later, but for now, its unusually quiet here. Change is good. I spent some time reading all the comments from the Fellowship in that post too. Amazing how much we share, yet are so different. From my own comment back then, it seems that post was among the first ones I read when I discovered your blog. It has been a wonderful journey along with you. Merry Christmas darling! I love Boxing Day too! A nice traditions for Boxing Day is to take something from the Old Year that we don’t want anymore and throw it into the bonfire. It doesn’t have to be a “thing” it can be anything, even a bad habit, write it a on some paper, put it in a box, watch it go up in smoke. Very satisfying!
I think I will adopt that tradition! It sounds like a good one! Thank you, and Merry Christmas to all!
A FIRE! I love Fires! Boo here. Thank you Maggie. I know exactly what I will throw in the fire. That damn electric fence can go for a start and the other day i almost FELL THROUGH the ceiling in the west barn, so that can go too.. oh and can i throw the wheels of the tractor in, they terrify me, i have to keep biting at them to stop them getting away.. Oh Oh and my dragon toy, it has lost its squeak, if I throw that into the fire will I get new one? Will I? WillI? Will I?
Hilarious!!!
Egoli: I have always wondered Snow-woman. How do you manage in the summer? I am deeply concerned about the possibility of Melting.
Merry Christmas you wonderful farmy critters. Much love and happy carrot munching. XXX
Veronica, in my mind i always call you Vonnie.Miss c LOVES your angel picture I have asked her again and again to hang it in the barn buut she is being quite mean and will NOT let us have it. Maybe you can talk to her about it. Egoli, Lulu and I would like to hang it above the cats work bench where we all hang out looking out the windows.. What do you think? Isn’t that a fair request? Have to get back to the kittens – they are so demanding.. who knew! Have a sweet kitteny day Vonnie.. love Marmalade.
Merry Christmas, Cecilia, and the same to all the fabulous farmy critters. Don’t you wish hats would make a comeback? They make quite a statement for Sheila and TIma.
We are waiting for snow. The sky has been laden (leaden) for weeks now with the stuff and we want snow! If we can’t have sun at least give us snow.
Apparently we will be getting neither! I thought the clouds sounded snowy yesterday but nothing here either.. I hope you both have a lovely day!.. c