I often find things when I examine images in the morning as I prepare them for publication. I think that is a jacket? On the post behind the peacock. I know exactly where my one work jacket is so it must be the woodcutters! 
He will be splitting wood today! Maybe he will see it and collect it. I don’t pick up after him – not being his mother and all. But I will show him this photograph!
The six chubby chops went out for a run yesterday. And the moment they are out the gate they hurl themselves around their race track. 
Pigs are not fond of strange open spaces so they are really fast galloping around the field ending up back on their own turf, much happier. 
But these 6 are getting a bit fat a bit fast so they need a good run each day. 
I was in a gorgeous little bakery in a nearby town yesterday having a cup of tea and this was on the bathroom wall. It was put out by the society for the prevention of tuberculosis. I am going to research this and see if I can find myself one to hang. I love the Recess advice: “Play Hard but nothing dirty in your mouth”!
Actually some of it is pretty good advice.
So I am thinking this must be from the early 50’s. My mother had TB about that time. She was told she would never have children. But my mother was never very good at doing what she was told! So she had six.
I hope you have a good day. We have had a string of days in the 50’s but I think we drop back closer to winter temperatures today then back up again to rainy spring temps tomorrow. Then back down again. But still above freezing in the daytimes which Piglet will be grateful for.
November was the coldest and snowiest on record in Illinois, and December was almost 5 degrees warmer on average than usual with a record breaking number of tornadoes in Illinois. Not here thankfully. It will be interesting to see how January shapes up. Also interesting to note that the chickens have not slowed down their laying much at all. Only the elders are taking a laying break.
The last few days of full sun have been wonderful.
Much love
C
The Kitchen's Garden 
42 responses to “CHUBBY CHOPS”
Loved the advice to have a hot bath twice a week!
Great advice. We should all do these things. We’d be a lot healthier I’d think. Lots of water drinking 😊
Yes! My biggest struggle too! Drinking enough water!
The Six “Chubby Chops”… LOVE the title today!: )
I do too. Was chuckling out loud before ever opening the site. 🤣
Me too! Lol
That little sign touched my heart and caused me to remember a friend who took in a nine year old niece whose parents were on drugs. It made me sad to hear that this young girl had never been taught to use the toilet first thing in the morning, and as a result had trouble with a lot of bladder infections. Her teeth were in bad shape, and she smelled because she had not been taught good hygiene practices. It was then that I was thankful for a mother who nagged us about keeping clean hands and brushing our teeth and encouraging eating good foods. The one we seemed to get the most was standing up straight and not slumping!
“Sleep out of doors when you can” was of course, my favorite bit of advice at the bottom of the sign. A night under the stars is life changing I think!
Mr Flowers ťail feathers seem to have come in much thicker and fuller this year too. Long may the warmer sunny days last. Laura
Seeing your pigs run around with their ears aloft and their eyes wide with excitement makes me feel pain for all the animals that are raised jammed into small spaces only to be then be butchered and eaten. i am so grateful for the life these lead! The happy time they have with you. Thank you for that! I too love that poster.
The Daily Health Guide is too wonderful!!! Let me know if you find you can get copies of it! I’m thinking it must be an antique!
My chickens are laying too! I was shocked but very grateful for the eggs, I detest the ones at the grocery. 🙂
We had 90 degree weather up until October which prevented me from doing so many things, like applying finish to my deck.
I hope you can find a copy of the wall poster. That’s a real bit of history. My mom was also in a TB hospital while I was waiting to be born.
The illustrations date it farther back for me, Celi. I’d say early 20th c. up till the 30s. TB was not stamped out over any of that time. I had an older girl cousin who got it & stayed home from school & in bed for 2 yrs. in the late 30s. I thought that sounded wonderful, propped up in “the land of counterpane” – (Robert Louis Stevenson contracted
TB in childhood & was confined to bed.) – reading & drawing & no school. In college I thought a mono diagnosis & a prescription to go to Florida & sit on the beach for a month would be great news. Many people at my university did get mono & dropped out for the winter months, but it never happened to me. I might have just been a lazy girl, but I always wanted more time to read & paint & being healthy, gave no thought to the illness part. I never slept outside in childhood, but I loved getting up in the middle of the night & watching the moon & stars out the window.
The “white plague”, as TB was called, was at it’s worst here in the US during the 30’s and 40’s. Relief came after WWII with the introduction of effective antibiotics. I would guess the clothing style in the poster ages it to somewhere around the 30’s. Absolutlely love it….and such good advice!
Oh thank you! The thirties excellent that will help me look it up and try to find a date.
What dear little pigs.
I love the poster, though aside from not spitting and sneezing, none of the advice would prevent TB.
Take a hot bath twice a week!!!
Better than one, I suppose!
Perhaps I need to take a good gallop around a racetrack of a morning. I am experiencing the same issue as the pigs!
Celi, if you find out where to get copies of that poster will you please let us know? I would love to get one and I have spent way too much time looking for it this morning! Lots of “rabbit holes” to explore while searching–so interesting!!
I love when I read that you have sun and warmer temps. Your weather is about 2 days behind us in Waterloo Ontario Canada so you always prepare me ahead of time. (Better than our meteorologists). I love the advice board. Just as pertinent today as back then. Maybe more so since playing out of doors is not a prevelant today.
How funny the pigs are running like they are in a race. I never think of pigs running, they always strike me as a big wallowing and lazy. Even when I think back on my great uncle teaching me how dangerous they were, I mostly thought of them knocking me over because they are so big and then just eating me. He always had big stories about pigs eating misbehaving children.