September 24

Dar was in the bathroom and as he came out, he inquired if my pigs were free range. Thinking he was going to say something as mine aren't.. I hesitantly said "No". He said they were coming down to the house. I said "WHAT!!!??". I race outside, see 4 pigs meandering down the driveway and/or trying to get into Elena's camper. I had thought he was kidding about them being out, but he had seen them out the bathroom window.

I hurry, tossed on my boots and grabbed feed in a bucket and shake it like mad to get them to follow me. One did and then the rest followed. I couldn't get the gate open in time to the barnyard as someone set a very heavy motorcycle on the gate rails. So the pigs lost interest and started back down the hill by the time I had moved everything.

I go back down and find the pigs.. grab one by the back legs and proceed to haul it back up to the barnyard by its back legs, hoping the calf didn't get out by now. With the one pig I had a hold of screaming at the top of its lungs as only a pig can do, the rest obediently followed and I got them all in their pen but for one. Elena grabbed it by both ears and hauled it in, just as I tripped backward over a stump in the pig yard that I had forgotten about and fell.. with a 200 pound pig in my lap. Did I mention it has rained alot in the last 2 days? Yes.. I was laying in the muck in the pig yard with a pig sitting on top of me. Add another bruise to the list.