July 12, 2006

took some time for myself last evening, it has been a wild and crazy week and I wanted some quiet. When I went up to feed the piggies tonight, I set the 5 gallon bucket down and sat on it in the pig yard with them. I have not got to spend very much time with them since they have been here. They are funny little things.. well moderate sized now. After their initial horror of someone staying in their pen longer than just merely feeding them, they finally got curious and came to see me. One of the girls was brave enough to let me touch her and I started scratching behind her ears. As she got closer to me, she really appreciated her back being done, and then I started really scratching her side.. and she promptly forgot she had legs and fell over on her side. Then she came back for more ear scratching and when I refused, she started to root under my tennis shoe.. then the other pig started munching on my shoe.

None of the other ones would let me touch them however. One of the others makes a funny whooshing noise and then I think the one I was scratching did it as well.. kinda a slurping/whooshing noise.. so much for "OINK". Aren't pigs supposed to say "Oink"?

Well, I am off to do the morning chores and then go and work on the magazine at my 'other office'.  

Evening Update

 am NOT happy with the Canadian Mail Service. A few more magazines have not shown up. I think if I am paying postage, no matter how large nor how small, they ought to be required to deliver it or track it down. I have to go to the Post Office again today to see what I I can do about this. I am frustrated and getting mad.

In the good news category, it has rained each and every day. I am now cold each and every day, but we need this for the firefighters to get a handle on these wildfires. Animals are still moving around and my dogs were flipping out all night, but just as my bf was getting home last night, he saw our HUGE black bear "VW". We thought he had moved on as we have not seen him for some weeks. My bf was driving his pickup and almost hit him actually. I asked how large the beast was as we have been pretty far away from his thus far. My bf said that "VW" is well over the hood of his truck when he is on all 4's. At that size, I am not convinced he is a black bear, more like a dark Grizzly? I would think that my bf would know to look for the hump on his shoulders.

Got our first batch of wine bottled up last night. Yes, it will be in an upcoming issue at some point. Maybe in the winter issue. I was raised on a vineyard, but I have never gotten to do it all on my own from start to finish before. I was always 'serf labour' before. My family harvested 3-8 tons of grapes a year from our vineyard, but my father and my brother did all the 'scientific stuff'. I think it is odd that I make wine and liqueurs and things when I do not drink, but I am making it for friends and family. I thought I was odd until I went to get a couple supplies from a winemakers shoppe and when I mentioned that I do not drink to the owner, she said, she did not drink either, as she is diabetic. THAT I thought was interesting that the owner of a wine shoppe did not drink, whatever the reason. "Kid" is here and interested in the bottling of the wine, but as it requires a "GADGET".. he loved corking them. However on 'offtime' he was putting corks in the floor corker and shouting "FIRE!!" and the cork would go bouncing across the kitchen floor. Hehehehehe

Since I have been up since 4 am, I had better go get a little more sleep, I have alot to do today.

Everyone have a good one!!