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We got the new cover for the Coverall Thursday afternoon, but it was too windy Friday to pull it on, so Saturday Morining bright and early it was.

Yesterdays bright sunny day left the pigs a little more pinkish than usual.  So this mornings drizzle might have felt good!  The new cover will be here Thursday, so I think they will be able to endure till then.  Will post some pictures when it is looking all shiny and new!

The Sun came out at suppertime Sunday, and Camera’s were returned from their journey, so here are a few more pics.

The pigs are pretty content, hunkered down in some extra straw with the tarp’s out over the sleeping area.  We were able to double up a couple of pens so there are not too many in the open end anyway.

Will have to see how soon we can get a new cover, might have to try and pull this one back on temporarily.

Hydro hasn’t shown up yet to fix the hydro, so we just finished pooring some more fuel into the tractor so it will last another 6 hours till morning.  I was having such a good day!!  ..until!

Jenna took the photo’s with her PDA ’cause Karen apparently has all 3 camera’s with her at the Volleyball Tournament.  We’re not sure why, but the pictures aren’t bad, considering.  Thanks Jenna!

Uncle Ted and Grandpa

This afternoon around 6:30 there was a storm that came through and took half of the roof of the barn (coverall) off and knocked down a tree that took out the hydro on the way down, so we hooked up the generator and then we started cutting the tree up so that we could get down the driveway. (and so that the hydro repair man could come fix the power lines) Then we went back to the coverall and we scraped down the pens and rolled tarps out over the pigs. We gave them some straw too so they should be alright. As for the roof… we can’t do anything about right now so we just rolled it up and left it at the side of the barn. There are a couple pictures to follow of cutting up the tree (Grampa, Dad, and Uncle Ted came to help too) and barn.

Beautiful (mostly) sunny day today, and things are almost as dry as before the rain overnite.  There was a nice south wind so it was the perfect day for spreading manure on the field just north of our neighbour.  Can’t smell it up wind!  I’m thinking Karen is happy to be with Kevin all weekend for his volleyball tourney, ’cause the house is definitely downwind!

Not much happened in the fields all week.  Weather hasn’t been cooperating very well.  Yesterday saw Cousin Bob start planting on his field-next-door-to-the-gravel-pit.  (it drys up quickly!)  and we got one field worked up just as the evening showers hit.  We need some sunshine!

The dry weather all week let us get out on the field and spread manure.  The pigs didn’t need to swim!  We don’t usually like to do that on a Saturday so the neighbours aren’t home to smell it, but sometimes you don’t have a choice.  Luckily, my next door neighbour was spreading that day too, and he was right at the road, so everyone will blame him!

Back about 4 weeks ago, we had a sow that didn’t co-operate real well when we were putting them into the farrowing pens.  She managed to jump through the creep (little piglet) area into a different alley about 3 times, wreaking a few heatlights in the process, and certainly not making any friends with the management team!

This morning was weaning time.  This time, she went down one wrong alley, before trying to jump through the 1 foot gap between the pen and the wall instead of going through the open door.(’cause who would want to walk through an open doorway !?!)

Not wanting her to just keep shoving where she didn’t actually fit, I stuck my hand in her face to try and back her up.  Some how 2 of my fingers went right in her mouth, at which point she chomped down quite significantly!  Although she did back up and go the right way, my finger started to throb shortly there after.

So now I am typing this one handed while I keep the other one elevated.  (I hope you appreciate it)  and am hoping she has learned her lesson when she goes onto the shipping truck Tuesday.(I’m not betting on it!)