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April 14, 2007
All this and the weather too
Yesterday Annie, one of my remaining goats kidded. She had 2 bucklings, this time with color (hers are usually all white). No pictures yet - yesterday one was touch and go and today the other is. They move away from the heat lamp and become too chilled to eat.
One of the pigs has learned how to escape his pasture. He has done it a few times already today. Gary was collecting some kindling in the woods above the pigs and said, "One minute he was in there watching me and the next minute he was up the hill following me." I like pigs but I do not like chasing pigs. You know the phrase, "Screaming like a stuck pig?" If you have never heard a pig, stuck or free, being made to do something against his will, you are missing out. Their high-pitched scream curdles your ears as well as prompting every other critter here into a chorus of bawling, braying and barking. It's chaos!
And speaking of chaos, it will be interesting to see what it is like around here this time tomorrow to Monday morning. We are under a storm watch. I have heard reports of up to 20" of snow around here and Gary has heard of even more coming! He has been listening to radio stations out of Binghamton and their weather is always a touch different than Ithaca's. So we have spent the day preparing for the storm. When we put the plow on the truck Gary declared that now it wouldn't snow. We'll see. Seems like a few months ago winter would never arrive and now it just won't quit.
Posted by roosterh at April 14, 2007 2:49 PM
