The wind yesterday was wild. Hair raising actually.
We have a few branches down nothing too dramatic but the clouds were incredible. 
They were moving very fast going from this –
to this.
Within a few hours. This cloud was the pre-curser to a nasty little squall. The whole sky went dark, screaming wind, hard rain and then all gone 10 minutes later.
The wind was so strong all the big birds stayed in the barn. The chickens were out and about but Geraldine and her mob said – No, thank you very much.
When I went over to feed the pigs in the West barn the wind had blown out a door and the twins had made their escape (after eating half a bag of feed). I found them lying in the sun on the lawn outside the barn. They waddled over as I drove in and when I got out of the truck they threw themselves at my feet. Their heads were down, they were so confused and they had sore bellies. I sat down next to them and Molly literally inched over and laid her head on my leg. Bad piggies, I said gently as I rubbed their bellies. They said nothing. After a while I got up and opened the gates and doors and they followed me contritely back to their huge pen.
Thank goodness they had not wandered far.
I am thinking that once I have the Home barn cleaned out I might get one of those power washer thingies and clean the whole lower level – walls, ceilings, gates and everything. It would be a major undertaking though. And I am afraid if I cleaned it too thoroughly the whole structure might fall over. And that would be a lot of water to drain out.
But I might work out the logistics of it. I clean the milking shed like that all the time, surely I could do the whole barn?
Have a lovely day.
love celi
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Bad Pigs! How funny 😉
That is a beautiful picture of a shameful piggie!
What a gorgeous sunlit piggy photo, with illuminated white eyelashes. A lovely girl, enjoying a spot of sunshine. I know what you mean with your concern over power washing the barn. I’m pretty sure if I did our shed, the cobwebs holding the thing together would give way!
Love the pig, perhaps they could help you clean the barn or are they not like Wilbur of Charlotte’s Web?!
Sensible birds, silly piggies. Hope you are calm now. Is that a twister in there or just heavy rain? Laura
Wind. I hate the wind. All types of wind. Especially wind that blows in my general direction.
That’s funny!
Not so sure about the power washing of the barn, as there is probably lovely dirt that is cementing pieces together. You may indeed weaken the structure if you really let loose on it.
Naughty, naughty pigs. I guess they call over–indulgence “pigging out” for a reason.
That’ll larn you to get/make a metal pigfeed container! When we had animals, the feed was kept in dustbins with rocks holdig the lids down.
It’s amazing to see the blue in that sky and knowing the power of the wind concealed in those clouds.
Have a lovely day.
love,
ViV x
aaww – poor fellow piggies. We can be so pig-headed sometimes to get what we want – consequences be damned. Snorts. XOXO – Bacon
Hope no ill effects from the overeating. Will pigs eat bicarb when they have an upset stomach or gut? or activated charcoal?
I keep both available to goats. An overeating episode like that can pretty horribly kill a goat 😦
It seems pigs do ok. Their tummies are designed for gorging. Both fine this morning.
That ‘pre-curser to a nasty little squall’ looks like a twister and that’s how they work — right? — wild and crazy, then gone ten minutes later. Kind of early in the season for them though, isn’t it?
I can’t offer anything about power washing a barn except to say that the contractor who built a new deck here on the house refused to power wash the deck and, instead, sanded it down to remove the dirt — this all at his expense and it is a deck of considerable size. He said that power washing does far too much damage to the wood.
That piggie in the photo, is it Molly? She is looking a little forlorn there. Like there is no hope… you eat your weight in goodies and you must suffer the indigestion that follows… lol
Hope your day is a lovely one too. ~ Mame 🙂
They are just like little children, aren’t they?
I love that sky! Every time I’m somewhere on flat land I always marvel at the sky and at being able to watch the weather come in like that. I bet I’d love living away form these mountains for a while. 😀
Photo number 3 looks like a double funnel cloud to me. Glad you and all are safe.