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  • January 4, 2016

    Save The Money

    Save The Money

    I know that this is the time for New Years Resolutions and things like that but how about a New Years Revelation: about saving.  I am a slow thinker in that I can be idly thinking about a certain subject on and off for months before my thoughts filter from my sub-conscious to my conscious…

  • January 3, 2016

    Manu the Virgin Boar

    Manu the Virgin Boar

    – is a Virgin No More. And understandably very proud of himself. And he was a perfect gentleman and at no time did Poppy or I feel threatened.  Yesterday morning I saw that she was ready so I opened the gates. He just walked up, ignoring his breakfast, said Hullo (by nosing her in the side) and then mounted…

  • January 2, 2016

    A sundoggy day

    A sundoggy day

    “I can’t feel my face.” Amanda said to me after we had spent a good deal of the afternoon cleaning downed branches out of the electric fence across at the West Barn. All the little branches were carried to the growing bonfire heap and all the big limbs were sawed up for next years fire…

  • January 1, 2016

    Not ready to breed

    Not ready to breed

    Poppy is not ready to be bred yet. She made us wait last time too if you remember. Except last time was a straw – this time is a real boy pig. Maybe today. She stays in her corner pen for the most part and a few times a day I take her for a…

  • December 31, 2015

    Don’t listen to me

    Don’t listen to me

    Because all I am going to talk about is the weather!  For the next few months I will fret about the cold and the humidity and the wind speed and the virtual velocity (actually I have no idea what that is but it sounded good)  and the fact that the dryer just quit and as…

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