Today is a busy day at the Fair. My daughter will be competing in “Create a Family Baking Legacy” sponsored by the Knop Family and Miss NiNi’s Fine Desserts. She’s baking Red White and…
Browsing Tag
4 orphans
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Before getting all fancy yesterday for Winefest Des Moines’ “Iowa Lawn Party”, we did chores. Here are some pictures of all of the fun and some of the nonsense. We were totally…
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Here’s an updated picture of the orphan York piglets we raised by hand that were born on 12/23/2013. They’re coming along great. They’ll also NEVER hold still. My husband only wears the…
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Much to our surprise and delight this morning upon early chores it was discovered that Diamond had pigged. She is the York gilt we kept (a few litters back) out of our beloved…
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In the past year I can’t think of any pigs I’d like to celebrate more than the four little orphan Yorkshires ‘yorks’ that we raised in our garage. The attachment that came with raising them…
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I’m pleased to tell you we have 4 living little piglets (still… thank you Lord.) Hopper, Wiggles, Sunshine and Jackson are growing up, doing quite well and eating a TON of feed. Pretty…
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I’m pleased but unusually saddened to let you know that my 4 swine children left our garage this morning. We’ve really had some ups and downs with those adorable little piglets but…
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I say this to myself all of the time: “You know you are from Iowa when…” or “You know you are a farm family when…” well today I think both sayings are appropriate…
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Great news. I was hoping the follow-up post to my last one would be just like this. We have four living orphans on our hands! Three of the four are thriving and…
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“Mooooooooom! Are we going to have lunch soon?’ This is a typical question around most homes if lunchtime hasn’t occurred by 12:30 p.m. The typical answer to the “when is lunch?” question is…
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I’m going to write a note today about our four little orphan piglets. I’m losing track of the timeline of their health. I meant to post sooner but I just couldn’t do…
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Many of you have asked if I would mind sharing what happened to the sow-Mama of the “Christmas Pigs” (for those of you who are not ‘caught up’, we have 4 Yorkshire…
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We’ve got some friends coming to live with us for a while… More on the story soon. For now a cute little picture. Santa ain’t got nothin’ on Daddy… unless he brings…
