Although I find this to be very strange, it is kind of cute.  Check out the Pig Olympics from Russia.  Perhaps next year, I could enter Chesapeake and Finnemore.

There is something spooky about going from the house to the barn at night.  It is always a bit scary.  It is not a long walk from the house to the barn, but on two sides of you there are thick woods.  Woods filled with all manner of wild beasts.  Normally, I hurry myself along [...]

Today was a relatively nice day.  The sun was shining, the temperature was right around 45 degrees, no wind, and it was Saturday.  Keeping animals and working a full time job gives me little time to get the chores done.  It is hard enough to get anything accomplished during the year, but for some reason, [...]

Let there be no doubt about it, my animals are spoiled. Although all of the animals are treated well, most of them are treated too well. As any animal owner/lover knows, each animal has a distinct personality.  Even the chickens.  With each personality come different wants and needs. However, I am afraid that the animals [...]

It’s been a slow week and I haven’t been feeling motivated to do much of anything as you can tell from lack of activity at The Barn.  Part of this has to do with the frigid temperatures outside.  I feel like the pigs just wanting to hibernate underneath some blankets until the chill subsides and [...]

“When Pigs Can Fly”

on the joys and struggles of pigs and the people who love them.
The line that makes me chuckle the most:
If you read my schedule page, you’ll see that I wake up for breakfast at 5 am.  That’s 5 am EVERY MORNING.  I don’t sleep in on the weekends!  Sometimes Mommy can coax me back to [...]

It’s a good thing potbellied pig owners are as stubborn as their pets, otherwise by today Gwendolyn, a Vietnamese porker, would have been a goner.  Kudos to Ms. Pat Brown who has refused to do-in her pet at the behest of her county government.   As long as PG County Government persists in its needless [...]