Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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DUCK DUCK

As I moved from one job to the next mending fences and cleaning out pens, laying in straw and filling water tanks, shifting pigs – a flock of ducks waddled along behind me. Scolding and chattering.
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START IN THE BARN

With the six. And their field. All the oats and corn are gone already. They ate all the best feed first . Being pigs and all. We have late summer colour succumbing to cold frosty mornings. It was quite cold yesterday – it was a heavy frost actually – my car was iced up but…
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I AM NOT AN APRICOT TREE
And do not need to be chilled every winter but here I am looking at another mid west winter and we all know how I feel about those.
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ISLANDS IN THE SKY

The second and last pig field has been opened up for the six little pigs. It is glorious but as usual they are still afraid to walk past where the electric fence was.


