The day the Pig rodeo came to Nannyland, mud pooh and kids of all sizes.

I got to go out and help do chores in the morning yesterday.  I hadn't been out for a while hoping to get the cold out of my lungs.  It was a lovely crisp morning.  I noticed right away the littlest pigs looked to be not growing at the pace they had been.  Poppie sees them everyday so didn't really see a difference.  I told him right away we had to get the two bigger pigs away from the littler ones they were stealing all of their food.  Poppie was a little frustrated that he hadn't seen it so we had a long debate on where we could more them too, and decided in the end we would board  Swiss Miss Chops in to her pen in the barn and give the piglets her outbuilding and outside yard area.  We also had to make sure Caesar's pen was secure for him.  He had been in with the ladies since September, but as it will soon be birthing time he had to go back to his pen.  Cinnamon is going with him, he is over from Mokies until hers are done birthing.  Poppie used most of a roll of wire shirring up their fence, Cinnamon can jump Caesar can not so had to make sure no one could escape and go walk about.  Poppie worked on the pen, I helped pull up wire and lead Mishka on my wrist or put her leash over a fence post, she is learning not to wander but to stay with us when we are out side.  Mokie came over and left Bubbie with the Booboo, who was supposed to be cleaning her room but mostly drawing pictures and working on her artwork.  Yogie and Boy played in the yard, fed the bunnies and played in the snow.  Cubbie kind of wandered around from us to Mokie.  Mokie was cleaning out her goat pens, Poppie had to chainsaw the bottom of the gate free from the ice for her.  He got the buck pen done and we went in and had a coffee break before we went to work on the piglet pen.  Once we had our coffee I found an old section of double picket fence that worked as a barrier for the purpose of separating the pens, so know building just screwing it up securely.  The pen making done it was time to catch pigs.

Mokie agreed to help us as Son was painting one of the kids bedrooms.  We at first decided we would catch the two bigger one rather than move the seven smaller ones, less work right? not so much.  Mokie got on her rubber boots, and climbed into the pen.  The spring like weather has made it a six inch to a foot deep soup of pig poop and mud that would be a lovely mud bath at any fancy resort.  It looks like a nice mud pudding.  She climbed in and tried to catch one of the bigger pigs, after a few minutes of chasing them it was obvious she wasn't going to catch them.  She kept getting stuck in the mud, her boots would suction when she got in the deeper areas, Boy climbed over the sty and was stuck in his new boots.  We told him to get out and come let Nannie wash his boots off with the hose.  Yogie got on her older boots and jumped in with Mokie,  Booboo came outside to help, Son had taken Bubbie.  We told her she had to go get a different pair of shoes on, she came out a little later in my tennis shoes, but as she was needed she got in any way, now I have to wash my shoes.   She was not all that happy about helping once she got in, Mokie got mud on her and she cried.  I told her to just get over it and help.  We, by this time, decided to move the smaller pigs, they were easier to catch and we were actually able to lift them over the fences, hadn't thought of that at the onset of our plan.  Most of them took all three of us to get them over the fence, Poppie and I carried them across the goat pen to the new piglet pen.  It was still not easy catching them, some of them Yogie scarred to Mokie and she would grab them.  Some got away as a grease pig with slippery muddy pooh will do.  Mokie lunged and fell full body into the muddy soup, came up with mud down the whole front of her.  Yogie and Booboo had mud to their knees.  Mokie caught the last two by cornering them in the house and dragging them out.  The little piglet were happy to be in their new pen with no big bullies to eat all the food and pick on them.  We should see a marked difference in no time in their sizes.  I felt I had let Poppie down not helping out lately but now I am much healthier for having not been outside. It was a lovely day all in all, and I can still see Mokie laying in the mud, all had laughed when she fell in, even her.  It was too funny not to.   The goats and pigs are all where they are the safest from other animals, and spring is on its way.  I have a mud bath to prove it.  Sunday to enjoy a day with the Lord we going to try out a Church today, the girls can't wait...... tomorrow.