Merry Christmas from the Piggyville Girls

 

"Hey Ceilidh! Wake up!" says Shannon. " Mother Christmas has brought us stockings full of gifts!" 

"What are stockings?" asks Ceilidh. " They are those fuzzy things that Mum wears around the house," replies Shannon. " She even has warm stockings that she puts on her feet when she goes to bed. But these are special stockings full of gifts for good guinea pigs."

"Ooh! Look at all the goodies that Mother Christmas gave us." exclaims Shannon.  "We must have been very good piggies this year. We are going to share some of our goodies with all the piggies and the people who love them, who have travelled far from foreign lands to find peace and safety here is Swannanoa, North Carolina."

Merry Christmas everyone! Dear readers please note that we did not eat the Christmas Pudding! It is only there as a decoration. Our Humans are going to eat it after their dinner.

Happy Holidays!

Scottie, Fitz, and Coke here!

We are very excited to be invited to a Christmas party and are busy preparing for our trip. I, Scottie, wanted to bring my snowman mug along with me, hoping there will be, um, libations, and I also packed some food in my Santa lunchbox. I mean, I packed food for all of us in our lunchbox. (You will see a pigture of Coke with it, too.)

Fitz said he wasn't going anywhere unless he could take Santa with him. He promises he has been a good boy this year, and he wants to make sure Santa knows where he is when presents are being delivered.

Coke said he's a bit behind in sending his cards out, so he's bringing some with him, and he hopes everyone will notice the lovely guinea pig on the towel we are using to keep our feet warm.

We hope everyone and everypig will have a wonderful holiday season!

Christmas Party!

 Hello Readers. Oscar Piggyfriend here. I am trying to organise a Christmas Party for our friends.

"Bella? Do you think that I have ordered enough food for our guests?"

" I am not sure that there can ever be enough food," replies Bella, "especially as I saw you eating the last corn cob earlier."

"Not to worry," says Oscar (eyeing that nice, juicy red pepper in the box ) "Slave's son is shopping this evening and he will bring more when he comes on Christmas Eve tomorrow."

"Slave has cut some lovely fresh grass and we can always send her out for more."

Oscar has sent invitations to Fitz, Scottie and Coke and they have replied but he has not been able to contact the Prairie Piggies. Pavarotti has bought a special costume for Christmas and the Piggyfriends are longing to see it. Their Slave has had problems with her computer for a long time so, maybe, they cannot send us a message.

Slave was watching the news and she says that there is terrible weather in the US and Canada so it may be that Pig Air will not be able to take off. 

We are all keeping our paws crossed that they are able to come but, if not, we will organise a New Year Party too.

Happy Thanksgiving from the Piggyville Girls.

 We do not celebrate Thanksgiving in England so the Piggyfriends have asked our US friends to help us out. This post comes from the Piggyville Girls in North Carolina.

" Oh no Ceilidh!" squeaks Shannon. "Mom has that silver thing that flashes lights in our eyes. She has also bribed us with lettuce so she must be up to something."

"It is a camera Shannon," replies Ceilidh, " and no matter how many pictures she takes of me, I will always look like a black blob but who cares, let us enjoy the lettuce."

"Wow! Mom has given us a pecan pie! What is the special occasion?" asks Shannon.

"It is because on Thanksgiving our humans celebrate all the good things in their lives and we are the best things that ever happened to them." replies Ceilidh. " However, I think that I will stick to lettuce and let Mom and Dad have the pie."

We both want to wish all the piggies and humans a Happy Thanksgiving. We all have so much for which to be grateful.

Happy Thanksgiving

Coke here, wanting to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate.

At the beginning of my photo shoot, my mom set out some small pieces of carrot and squash to make the photo look more festive, and, yes, to keep me occupied. Those photos didn't come out as well as she had hoped, so she tried again, without the food.

Can you believe it? But I decided to pose for her politely (having already eaten by then), and she decided the second set of pigtures was better.

I hope you will like this pigture. It was fun to sit with the pumpkin "sculpture," even though it was inedible. (It was actually so obviously inedible that I didn't even try to smell it. LOL.)

There is a lot of orange, which is now making me hungry, so I am dreaming of carrots, raw sweet potato slices, pumpkin pie ... Oh, my mom says I can't eat pumpkin pie. Hey, two out of three isn't bad.

Don't worry, I promise to share my holiday goodies with Scottie and Fitz!

Hallowe'en Party on the Prairies!!!

Like guinea pigs everywhere, the Prairie Pigs have been busy getting ready for Hallowe'en.  Slave had told us we could go out trick or treating if the weather was good, but that hope was dashed a week ago when we had an early snowfall. Some of it has melted, but there is still too much for piggies to get through without ending up with very chilly toes.  

So we thought, maybe a virtual party instead?  We are modern piggies with a Zoom account and lots of long-distance party planning experience, so we began working on the guest list immediately.  Since the Prairie Pigs and Cindy's Three Amigos all live in North America, we decided that they should be our guests of honour and sent out invitations immediately.  Scottie, Coke and Fitz are party animals just like us, and they RSVPed right away.  Let the good times roll!

                                      

Scottie sent us this picture of the decorations he is working on at his end. all specially chosen to coordinate with his gleaming tuxedo coat.  Nice work, Scottie!

And here is Coke, with his traditional pumpkin-themed decor!  You can't go wrong with pumpkins for Hallowe'en, plus Coke does have a dash of orange in his coat so it all matches beautifully.  As you can see, Coke is all ready to go out with a large treat bag which should hold enough "loot" for him, and maybe Fitz and Scottie too if Coke is feeling generous. (Apparently Fitz is still out shopping for a costume and will get back to us a bit later...)

The Prairie Pigs are busy getting ready for the party, too --- here is Arthur Pendragon, trying on a new costume Slave just bought.  We are not sure who he is supposed to be but it's red and gold and has shiny bits, which is always a good start for a costume...

Hmmm --- what do you suppose is going on here?  Looks like a top secret Hallowe'en party planning video chat between Scottie and Ernie from the Prairie Pigs!  Oh well, sometimes it's better for a piggy slave not to know what's going on when we're not around to "supervise"... Have a good time, piggies; just don't leave your carrot beer bottles lying around afterwards!

Happy Hallowe'en from the Piggyfriends. Arachnophobes beware!

 

" I have lived here for a very long time," says Bella Piggyfriend, "and, although Slave tells us that Hallowe'en can be a scary time of the year, nothing has ever happened to frighten us Piggyfriends.

Look out Bella! What is that behind you?

"Help!" squeaks Bella. " There is a big monster and it is eating my chicory."

Along comes Oscar to save Bella and the chicory from the big scary spider.

 " Take that," says Oscar as he flattens the spider. " How dare you frighten my friend, Bella!"

" Thank you Oscar," says Bella as she goes back to devouring her chicory.

Have a happy and safe Hallowe'en readers say the Piggyfriends.