Hello Readers,
The Piggyfriends' Slave received these lovely little model piggies for Christmas. Her son made them on his 3D printer and then he painted them.
Here is the group of fantasy piggies.....
.....and here they are individually.
A tiny piggy king.
His tiny piggy wizard.
Finally, here is his little piggy jester. We think there should be a tiny piggy queen too but there wasn't a pattern to make one. Maybe next Christmas.
Lovely Rita is here to convey our warmest holiday greetings to everyone and everypig out there! We hope your weather was warmer than ours and that you have much less snow than we do. (It's all very well to be "dreaming of a White Christmas", but a bit of picturesque hoar frost on the tips of branches would do just fine; no one needs three feet of snow covering all that tasty grass!)
It has been a good year for the Prairie Pigs; there are eight of us at the moment, the most Prairie Pigs there have ever been. Pig Mum's veggie garden did very well this year and we had many new and tasty things to eat all summer; we will be munching on carrots from that garden well into 2025.
You have already heard about Padraig, who joined us in October, but early in the New Year, you will also get to meet an even newer Prairie Pig whose name is Serafina, a little orphan girl piggy who came to us from the local Humane Society shelter at only a few weeks old and weighing less than 100 grams. She is growing fast and we are all helping to teach her how to be a guinea pig.
This is the first pigture Pig Mum took of Serafina, just after Serafina realized there was a guinea pig in the cage next door to hers --- she is trying to see over the divider into Padraig's cage, but she is not quite tall enough to get a really good look yet...
Stay tuned to hear her whole story!
We had a lovely Christmas card from the Surrey Squeakers with a piggy on the front! Here is a photo of it.
Hattie Piggyfriend said " That piggy looks just like me! I wonder who she is? Is she one of the Squeakers?"
We took a photo of Hattie in the same pose and tried to copy the props.
We have taken better photos but you get the idea! "Life imitating art" says Slave ( whatever that means....!)
We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with lots of treats.
Father Pigmas has been in the night and left treats for the Piggyfriends.
"Was that really Father Pigmas?" asks Benedict. " Doesn't he look a lot like our Valentine? I know that we were not meant to peek but I couldn't help it. He came down the chimney and left me this lovely big carrot."
"I will be busy eating this all day long."
Peaches comes running over to the other piggies. " Wake up piggies! Father Pigmas has been and left us all of these wonderful veggies."
Heidi leads all the piggies out to survey the bountiful supply of veggies. "Heidi," asks Peaches," How does Father Pigmas get all these veggies down the chimney?"
" That is done by magic," replies Heidi, " Christmas magic! Now I am going to eat this carrot. Come and join me all of you Piggyfriends."
The Piggyfriends would like to wish all of our readers a very Happy Christmas.
"Help!" says Dara."What is all this stuff and where is Declan?"
The two piggies look bemused until Slave tells them all about Christmas.
"So, if we have been good piggies, we will all get a treat in the morning?" asks Dara. "We are always good," says Declan, " because we are Peruvians."
Slave tells all of the piggies that Father Pigmas will come in the night and leave gifts.
"Sounds good to me," says Dara. "I can't wait until morning."
Dear Readers, if you have ever attempted to do a photo shoot with a guinea pig, especially one dressed in a very cute Hallowe'en costume (which the guinea pig may not have --- strictly speaking --- agreed to wear) and a collection of props, you may have already learned what I found out today.
Sometimes things do not go according to plan.
Here we have a basic set for a photo shoot: the letters are all still affixed to the background (that "a" in Happy may be backwards, but who pays attention to details like that?) and we have a few basic props appropriate to the holiday in the foreground. No piggy in sight, but that comes next...
Charlotte. the piggy model, has arrived! Not looking too pleased, but you can't keep everyone happy, and now the "w" in Hallowe'en seems to have fallen off and put back on a bit hastily upside down...
Now we have lost a few letters from the sign and Charlotte's headgear has slipped down over her eyes...
It looks as if the Director has figured out how to turn on those little pumpkins and they are now flashing, but not quite properly synchronized...
Ah! I'm afraid this might be as good as it gets, Readers! We have lost a few more letters but both pumpkins are flashing at the same moment and Charlotte is in the middle, still wearing her costume and glaring at the camera. Shall we quit while we are ahead? Perhaps that is for the best!
Happy Hallowe'en to all piggies and piggy people out there, and we hope no one dressed you up against your will and made you pigticipate in a photo shoot!
Here you can see our two mops...er Peruvians...Declan and Dara with the pumpkin. The leaf on the top has to be pressed to make it light up so we used a phone to hold it down. Much less dangerous than a real flame with all those whiskers around.
Happy Hallowe'en to all of our readers.
