I was up late last night, past my bed time after a lovely supper visit and we were to watch a movie, I was fading fast but made it though, and after getting home, I did the hounds, and crashed, slept hard and well but groaned when the hounds woke me up at just before eight, ok, that is a huge sleep in and I know it it.. but whine! 😛

So as I stumble up the stairs and let the hounds out for a morning run, I am greeted by a very grump moo’d Girl, informing me that they are needing hay forked over, I played it safe this time and while DH was gone a work trip, I had the second bail of hay put outside the fence and decided that I would raither fork over a couple time a day then move everything around and risk hurting myself like last time.. so off I go to fork over the hay, which the sheep are loving and I like that they really clean up every bit of what I put out before I put the next out..

No Marty, hmmm, and suddenly I see him, outside the pasture, laying down by the grapevines in the sun chewing cud, so finish giving the critters hay, call the sheep up and they come running for breakfast and take a stick and calmly lead Marty to the gate and though, and then the sheep start acting all weird, and I hear them before I see them..

The mob of piglets have broke out again, this time they were roaming the pasture, not just the barn, I have admit they are looking great! and they are super friendly tikes, very easy now to tell who is a gilt and who is a boar..

Now they were snagging their own hay pile and chowing down so i had time to get a bucket of feed and lead them back up, it was going so well, they were following the training of bucket and pig, pig, pig in their feeding sing along tune and then Brandy got all interested and bossy and drove them away.. thankfully only with her head and mouth, no hoof’s or kicks, she never touched them, but she kept them back from me, I finally had to get her training stick to keep her back and then let the piglets take a tiny bite and lead them along.. once they got back in the barn, they headed right for their pen and I have done three extra fences/gates and ties, its going to take me forever to get back into their pen, which is a issue cuz it needs to be tidied daily but for right now, I just need them to stay in it, I am going to have to move them this weekend to a bigger pen that they can’t get out of, I didn’t want to do that, as their current pen is right next to mom, and they are used to it and it has a big window for letting in sunshine, the other side is my solid wall for new babies and draft free, it does not have a big window, maybe we just need to rebuild the gate, i’m thinking with a drop down board across the both sides, so they can push it out or in.. but that I could lift up as needed..

So everyone is feed and watered and hopefully staying in for now, for the moment, still not sure where Marty came out at, but I will find it..