Last night everything was quiet in the home barn, the wind had dropped, the birds were roosting and the cows munched quietly in the background so while I put Sheila and the kune-kunes to bed under their respective covers, I recorded the discussion between Sheila (my big old Hereford pig) and I. Our good night talk. A talk we have every night and have done for years now. (The Bad Things – Molly and Tahiti tried to help with the straw, though kept quiet for the most part.) So hopefully you will find a little sense of the connection between my big fat pig and her girl.
In the recording Sheila speaks every time I lay another arm-full of straw along her back. You can detect the shuffling of the straw and the little pigs higher voices in the background and you will hear her saying thank you and mimicking me at the end. Usually her good nights have two syllables but of course when I decide to record her she changes her sentence structure! She is such a dear. I love Sheila.
Tahiti playing with a rooster!
I hope this audio clip works. Fingers crossed.
c
I hope you have a lovely day.
Love celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
106 responses to “Sheila speaks. (audio)”
Yes and who is under the blue blanket?
YAY! Tima and Tane – click on it you will see the top of Tima’s head and Tanes ears – they are topping and tailing, c
Finally I saw the ears!
Just beautiful. Thank you Miss C.
You are welcome Jacqui – thank you for reading and listening.. c
rats- I seemingly cannot listen to the recording- not sure why- darn it! Could you email it tome?
I will try – stand by.. c
What a great conversation. I think Sheila might even have a NZ accent!
SHEILA SPEAKS, and the whole world listens!
Farm Queen, royalty… her loyal subjects (we) are compelled to listen.
Marvelous. ~ Mame 🙂
The sound clip is great. If only people had an idea of how large this pig is. You can never tell by a picture. You have to see her in person to get the full size of her. She is quite amazing and she adores you…..she is putty in your hand! Ha!
I love night time sounds of animals settling, and Sheila’s crooning grunts are soothing and sweet. I talk to my chooks when they’ve gone to their roosts, and as I clean up the day’s mess in the pen and put food away, and they make little chirping and soft clucking noises back. Then nighty-night girls as I leave and I get an answering ‘nighty-night’ from each one. I didn’t realise one evening my neighbour and her mum were standing outside listening…..my chook pen backs onto a lane…and they’d were going past with their dogs but stopped to listen. They thought it was hilarious but enjoyed it too.
I have listened to the audio several times. Thank you so much for doing that. It’s like a lovely lullaby. Your voice is soft and soothing. It made me wish I had thought to do that in the very beginning with Daisy deer. I was quiet, but I’m not sure I was ever so soft in tone. What a lesson for all of us… to speak softly in a lilting manner.
not working; will try again later; i’ll just imagine it;
I absolutely loved hearing both of your affectionate voices!!
xoxoxo,
K
This was precious C. Thank-you for sharing your nighty nite tuck in with Sheila with us!
You are welcome Chris!! c
I am saving this blog forever and ever. I was so charmed by the exchanges between the pig and her girl! It was a real treat to hear the loving conversation which happens at night-night time. I loved hearing your voice but did not detect a NZ accent at all. Have you lost yours? In any case, this recording brought you and Sheila right into my bedroom and I adored it. Thanks so much, Celi. Lots of love to you and the fellowship, Gayle
She sounded in very good voice to me…..nice, nice recording:)
In a sense the farmy is much like an opera. The farmy’s day ain’t over until the fat sow sings. 😀
Celi Sheila sounds so happy. How wonderful hearing your voice. And those photos .. Just gorgeous! Thank you 😀