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sweetoothgirl

easy chocolate heart doughnuts

#prove your love (and your dough)#pylayd

violentwavesofemotion-deactivat

Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays & Other Writings; “The Perfect Day,” published c. 2004

#ott #on the threshold #ott feels #katniss

a-delightful-moment

Aneta Skoupá

#snowdrop #galanthus #the twelve months #twelve months #ttmamwt

nubbsgalore

temperature inversion - created when fog formed from the heavy, colder air of melting snow becomes trapped by a lid of warmer air - over the czech republic (x)

#the twelve months #twelve months #ttmamwt #peeta paints the winter

myfairylily

papiradesign

#cinders #snow #president snow #hazelle

briargeese

Geese following me around waiting for dinner.

#the twelve months #twelve months #ttmamwt #geese #clove and mareh

goddamnshinyrock

I just got off the phone with my mother, so get ready for another installment of Weird Tales From Rural Massachusetts:

So the neighbors with a pig farm have apparently had a LARGE SCALE escape, because there is “a big herd” of pigs roaming loose in the back woods. My mother discovered this while walking her dog, who promptly stampeded the entire herd into the local brewery tasting room’s parking lot (presumably to the dismay of their customers and staff).

The unsupervised pigs are a problem because A) pigs are BIG, can be aggressive, and do massive ecological damage, and B) my parents’ property is going to be part of a local charity hike next week, which means 30-50 unsuspecting hikers will be walking through what is now Sovereign Pig Territory. Also, one pig died, so there’s a Carcass Problem (that the local coyotes are not taking care of quickly enough) as well as the hazards posed by its living relatives.

my mother has called the farm, which has had no result (aside from a different neighbor showing up to butcher some sides of bacon off the Problematic Carcass), and has therefore had to contact the hike organizers and be like “so we have a problem you should maybe warn people about……”

goddamnshinyrock

#this is normal #I LOVE MY MOTHER AND HER WEIRD FARM STORIES #I swear I need to write a memoir some day #she’s so annoyed at the coyotes for not getting rid of the carcass in a timely manner #they’re not upholding their neighborly duty as scavengers #…unlike the human neighbor who took meat off a dead pig of uncertain age and origin

Speaking of pigs, I realize I forgot to give y'all an update on this post.

I was apparently way off in my idea of the size of the hike: it wasn’t 30-50 people, it was THREE HUNDRED people (including assorted children) who traipsed past that pig carcass, because no one ever came and got rid of it. It’s still there, months later, slowly decomposing.

The good news is that the roaming pigs did not put in an appearance during the hike, but made up for it by screeching ominously in the distance. According to my mother, the hikers made very good time through their property.

goddamnshinyrock

ANOTHER UPDATE, courtesy of my dad’s facebook: four months later there are STILL PIGS.

….at least the dog is having fun.

goddamnshinyrock

a final pig update: after repeated entreaties, the neighbors FINALLY came and collected their pigs, and then repaired the hole in their fence.

….the only problem is that they missed two (2) pigs, who seem to have decided that my parents’ yard is their new home, and have taken to hanging around the edge of the woods looking hungry. My mother is weighing the benefits of calling the neighbors yet again vs 1000 lbs of free pork and bacon.

#cinders #escapee pig #feral pig