MOLLY
Looking. She has such trouble with her ears this sow. Like a Saint Bernard.
She has to throw her head right back to see you.
She is a good Mum though.
It is very cloudy. No sunrise for this weekends guests. I hope the breeze picks up to keep drying my hay.
It is so much cooler now though. I hope this does not mean our summer is gone. I like a long late summer.
I hope you have a good day – I wonder what is on your list today.
Love celi
Where did all these showers come from? I hope they miss my hay fields. Ah well.
C
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Bless her!
I know- she is such a good girl
Cant you pin them back..or tie a ribbon…poor girl cant see where she is going…
She can see – enough anyway. Pigs smell more than they see anyway
Maybe a sparkly headband?
She’s so beautiful! Giggle! Can’t you just see Ms. Molly with a pink ribbon adorning her little head? It IS a good idea, Patrecia! Or maybe she could get an ‘ear perm’ from the vet? Maybe knit her a cap? Oh, she’s just so adorable – want to hug her!
MMMM- reminds me of when I was a kid and my bangs grew long while I was trying to grow them out…………………..same ‘peery’ feeling!
what a sweetie she is!
On my list: Make and can tomato sauce (from tomatoes that I’ve been freezing whole, as they ripen); pull up cucumber, melon, and squash vines and prepare those beds for winter crops (add compost, fix PVC structures, spread frost cover/Agribon); pot up brassica seedlings; and pull up the bean vines to dry for my winter supply of dry beans. Not a bad day’s work if I can get it all done. Hope you have a lovely day!
Molly is beautiful even if her ears give her difficulty. I know your days are full as are mine in a different way. Daughter day today and she is cooking our eggs and then will help me figure out how to take off the trap under the sink as the drain is stuck from the disposal side. I can’t afford a plumber so we have to figure it out between us. Sounds like fun, right? 😉
Google will help
YES! Just utube it. It will be so satisfying when you have it done. And really it is all common-sense. I have faith in you!
My daughter has skills. Between the two of us, we figured it out and fixed it even without google. 😉 Thanks for the help though, Vesta.
Oh Molly! I do wish I had a (much smaller) pig to commune with!
My list today involves mucking out the chicken and duck coops, and spreading gravel at the gate of the duck run. Muddy little buggers, they are!
On my list today…wash and fold/hang laundry, balance checkbook, make chili, put up clean towels and sheets…you know …all the housewifey stuff! Lots of time to think!
It is common enough among pigs that it seems to be like that for a reason. Perhaps it is to shade their eyes from the sun, and only becomes a problem for those with unusually floppy ears.
You are right. There must be an evolutionary reason. They don’t rely on their eyes as much as their nose.
Maybe they rely on their noses more because their eyes are covered by their ears.
It’s the piggy equivalent of sunglasses, I feel sure, and Miss Molly simply has a larger than usual pair…. On my list is putting away clean laundry, Days for Girls sewing, baking, passing the Husband tools while he replaces the front wheel bearing on the motorbike, a bit of stitching for the three-weekly Stitch Along, shopping for groceries and getting containers of home made soup out of the freezer as the Husband’s day shift starts tomorrow. All fascinating stuff… not.
Actually it sounds like a lovely day!
The good thing is there’s no rush and no fear of bad weather spoiling anything 🙂
True that. Showers forecast tonight OF COURSE!!
We have a long weekend here for Labour Day, so we are winding down somewhat but there is always a dog to exercise, garden to be watered, chooks to be tended, house to be tidied, food to be made and eaten… but a little more R&R is also on the agenda.
I find I cannot to the R&R when I am here. I have to actually leave the farm to relax.
I cannot at home either, it’s always, ‘I should do that or take care of this’. Actually I prefer it that way, I cannot abide sitting around. Today is a bit of laundry, hopefully finish enlarging and enclosing and building a door for the old donkey house and mow the lawn (again, sigh), as well as the regular maid service for all the critters. Also have to track down my local farmer and remind him I need a load of hay – that’s probably going to be the most difficult item on my list as they seem to be going hither and yon at the speed of light!
You have way more infrastructure, mouths to feed, going on than me!
I love the way pigs seem to have a perpetual smile. And Molly’s is lovely. Speaking of lovely, I was just reading about New Zealand’s prime minister and her fantastic speech at the UN General Assembly, in which her very well-mannered appearance and her words about kindness and decency as a strategy were clear rebuttals to Trump’s bullying ways. Gods bless her.
Molly’s ears look like floppy sunshades to me. VERY fashionable I might add.
My list included feeding the kale babies, sowing the garlic, ripping out sweet potato vines, eating a few of the sweet potatoes, and picking some more okra. After a soccer match and watching football.
Oh – thank you ! I must get my garlic bought! Almost forgot .
I’m trying a hard neck Creole variety this year. I forget the name. I’ve had small bulbs for years now and I’m trying a new variety each year until I find the one I get along best with.
Yes. Good thinking. The soil has such an impact on size – I am sure you double dig. That takes me ages but is worth it.
I try and put them into the spots I just pulled sweet potatoes out of. Dig once, harvest and sow at the same time! Unless perhaps the sweet potatoes take something out that the garlic likes… Hmm…
What a good idea. It does bear researching. Potatoes in general are pretty nutrient greedy