kittenmmm's blog post - Adventures in Farming - Episode 12

Pigs are smart...make no mistake. And yes, they are plotting against you. If you don't believe me read Animal Farm by George Orwell. The pigs were the ringleaders.

Sunday 8am..Wolf:"honey, we should get going, we have to pick up the truck"

It all went downhill from there. We picked up the Ford E150 box truck with the full intent of loading up the three pigs and taking them to the "processing" facility.

9am...truck gets stuck in the mud outside of the barn.

11am...call facility and tell them we'll be late, we're stuck in the mud...can we put the pigs in the outside pen. Sure.

1pm...I seriously think we need to go to Home Depot and pick up some gravel. Nice thought....useless endeavor.

3:55...call AAA, can you all tell me who in the area has the ability to get a truck out of the mud? Nice folks at AAA...the membership doesn't cover trucks of that size but they did make the call for me and sent some one out.

4:30ish...truck is now out of the mud...$75.00 later. We've revised our pig loading plan and now have a fence panel chute leading to the ramp of the truck. The bucket on the head, lead 'em by the tail thing ain't working. They are WAY too big and will have no part of it. After Wolf takes a ride on one of them (guess he missed the rodeo), cuts his thumb open on a fence and I get pig pooped on we call that plan a bust.

6pm...we have one pig in there gorging on chocolate chips and other goodies we've strewn about the truck bed. The other two pigs have no intention of getting in. "hey, wolf...don't pigs just love donuts?" Off goes Wolf to get donuts.

8pm....two pigs in....no more donuts...last pig has discovered he can get under the ramp, squeeze under the truck and take off. We finally get him up the ramp, get ready to lift the door to let him in...he jumps off the ramp and pig #2 jumps out of the truck.

9ish...pig #2 is back in...pig #3 has decided to plot against us again.

Sometime later..."screw it...can we shoot him and bring him in?" "I don't know...but I'm thinking about it" We decide to let him into the barn and just take the other two. We'll deal with him later.

10:30pm...I'm making our breakfast/lunch/dinner that we never ate...Wolf is cleaning out the truck...showers and bed...and if you think we managed to do anything but sleep you're out of your mind.

God, I hate pigs. They're way too smart for their own good. My own good too.

still aching
kitt xxx