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Yorkshire

  • Food

    Blueberry Crumb Muffins

    My love of blueberry muffins is not newly acquired. I’ve always loved a good excuse to eat cake for breakfast. These muffins are bursting with blueberries and topped with a sweet, buttery streusel. I…

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    More Fair Fun & Showing Pigs

    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…

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    parties & chores

    This weekend we got to head up to NE Iowa and visit dear friends.  My goddaughter had her 3rd birthday party and it was a blast!  We had an old fashioned tea…

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    weanin’ and smokin’

    Today we weaned 2/3 litters of our little pigs off of Oink and Cinnamon.  It is certainly time to do that and it was fairly easy. The two big ladies were excited to…

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    good girl diamond

    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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    national pig day

    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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    4 little pigs *update

    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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    4 pigs moving on

    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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    4 and gaining

    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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    4 and holding

    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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    feeding time

    “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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    the 4 piglets that could

    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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    Christmas Pigs Part II

    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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    Christmas Pigs

    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…

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    Glorious Pigs

    Pigs… glorious pigs! Here are some of my favorite photos of the kids and their best friends. Mike and Halle always love to be at the barn together.  Barrett is slowly catching…