Animals
- And Now A Word From Our Sponsor, The Tomato!
Spectacular, cool summer weather continues and I am happy as a pig in a pool! Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day with a couple of passing rain showers...short, rainbow-producing showers... Don't you just love rain when it is sunny? That kind...
- Tuesday For You....friday For Me!
I can remember as a child my Nana talking of the "Dog Days" of summer.Although I was never quite sure which days were of the canine persuasion...I guessed they were the hot and muggy ones that usually accompanied August. If you asked me now...I'd...
- An Afternoon At The Pool
We are having a hot and humid week,with a threat of thunder showers daily. Yesterday afternoon the thermometer was in the 90's.When the weather is this warm, the pigs get a little uncomfortable,so they head for the coolest place they know...the pool!...
- Surf's Up!
With the advent of warmer weather came the necessity for some way for our dearpiggy girls to cool off.Apparently, pigs don't sweat and are not good at getting rid of heat,so hot days are hard on them. The solution?A piggy pool, of course. And yesterday...
- Happy As A Pig In Mud!
Summer gave us a preview yesterday as temperatures soared to 85.Part of why I love Pennsylvania so much is the change of seasons.But, usually the change is a little more gradual.Not so, it seems, this year.Spring arrived ahead of schedule,and it looks...
Animals
Surf's Up!
We've arrived at the part of spring/summer where the thermometer
often hits the 90 degree mark.
And so, each morning I scrub out the pigs' pool and refill it with fresh water.
It's been three years since the girls' first summer here.
(We brought them home in October the previous year.)
It was that first summer that we bought this nifty plastic sandbox to use as a pool for them.
It's sturdier than a plastic kiddie pool and has withstood the test of
time and temperature.
Best of all, it has been pig-tested and pig-approved!
Why do we have a pool for our pigs, you ask?
Because of the fact that pigs are unable to regulate their own temperatures in the summer.
They lack the ability to sweat or to pant, and so, as opposed to most animals,
they cannot cool themselves down.
We often see illustrations of pigs in mud puddles,
and as a result think of them as a "dirty" animal.
In fact, pigs are quite clean...
clean enough that I hug and smooch on them all of the time!
The mud thing is just an effort to cool themselves when there is no other means.
A pig will dig a channel in the earth with their snout to make a cool place to lie,
if there is nothing else available.
Yesterday, being a rather hot one, was a great day for a swim...
as Ginger will illustrate...
As for why I dump, scrub and refill their pool each and every day...
it's to prevent this from becoming a breeding ground for mosquitos.
Today we say goodbye to Sammy #2.
His week at GrammieCamp is over.
We will miss him for sure.
I'll be he will be catching up on a lot of missed sleep in the next week to come!
- And Now A Word From Our Sponsor, The Tomato!
Spectacular, cool summer weather continues and I am happy as a pig in a pool! Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day with a couple of passing rain showers...short, rainbow-producing showers... Don't you just love rain when it is sunny? That kind...
- Tuesday For You....friday For Me!
I can remember as a child my Nana talking of the "Dog Days" of summer.Although I was never quite sure which days were of the canine persuasion...I guessed they were the hot and muggy ones that usually accompanied August. If you asked me now...I'd...
- An Afternoon At The Pool
We are having a hot and humid week,with a threat of thunder showers daily. Yesterday afternoon the thermometer was in the 90's.When the weather is this warm, the pigs get a little uncomfortable,so they head for the coolest place they know...the pool!...
- Surf's Up!
With the advent of warmer weather came the necessity for some way for our dearpiggy girls to cool off.Apparently, pigs don't sweat and are not good at getting rid of heat,so hot days are hard on them. The solution?A piggy pool, of course. And yesterday...
- Happy As A Pig In Mud!
Summer gave us a preview yesterday as temperatures soared to 85.Part of why I love Pennsylvania so much is the change of seasons.But, usually the change is a little more gradual.Not so, it seems, this year.Spring arrived ahead of schedule,and it looks...