REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD!

TODAY VinnyGuinea and Bhindi pretty much

had the Run o'the RunAbout all day since I didn't

have the strength to leave the apartment; so they

indulged in massive, eager doses of popcorning, chase, 
treats, resting together in sleeping bags, cuddle cups,

square ferret houses with round holes & hidden 
treats with infinite jump-through opportunities
 pOpCoRnING-FULL-THROTTLE through
their HappyDayTogether!

AND IT WAS GOOD.

THEN I got too tired and needed to give them antibiotics

so placed them back into their cages to medicate them before

Molly Movie Night or I fell asleep, whichever came first.

AND IT WAS NOT GOOD.

BHINDI HAD A FIT! 

A

FIT.

HE'S quite the acrobat, much as Taj Mahal was, and finally
jumped right INTO HIS HAY TROUGH in an effort to see
what was on the other side: could it be Vinny? Could it?

IF he just s.t.r.e.t.c.h.e.d. far enough...was there any chance

he could find his best friend and maybe somehow find a way

to escape captivity of The Cage and regain the Wonder of their

SUPER SPECIAL DAY?

IF ONLY HE COULD STRETCH JUST A WEE BIT MORE?

ON TOP OF HIS PRECARIOUS PERCH

ATOP HIS PRECARIOUS HAY TROUGH, THE

FEEDING HOLES OF WHICH ARE LOCATED

ON THE BOTTOM?

WHILE YumYum eats his hay, Vinny looks Startled, as if
having an "out of body" experience...half of it is feeling the
meeries from Bavaria, the realization that the time to post their photographs has come and then it will be too late to take back
the affection that has grown between him and his dear friends
Fairy and Marigold and his new Bavarian meeries and once he
has posted his love for them...what next?


The OTHER "out of body" experience is urgent! Where is his
former cage and playmate Bhindi? He loves and adores YumYum
and wants to live with him but a time was, not so long ago, when
they all lived as one, before Raj died and mom and YumYum finally took leave of their senses, it was the last straw for both of them...

"What to do? What to do? What to do?"

"BHINDI!"
"VINNY!"
"PLEASE DON'T EVER LEAVE ME AGAIN!"
"PLEASE DON'T EVER LEAVE ME AGAIN!"
"I PROMISE!"
"I PROMISE, TOO!"


AND IT WAS GOOD.

Life Is SO UNFAIR!

ALL DAY like yesterday, today, and tomorrow,
the Pacific Northwest, particularly our furthest NW corner
of it, has been getting battered with wind, rain, sleet, ice,
snow in higher elevations and mountains, just not happy
dance weather and then today - for the first time in our
entire lives, we received our first ever party invitation
for piggies in a place called MESA!
While mom isn't exactly sure where Mesa is, she said
"sounds like an Arizona word, hot, a red place, with
plateaus that turn every color at sunrise and sunset...
dry, a place that would be such a happy place:
hot, dry, and PIGGIES GALORE!"
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE! WE ROARED!
DOUBLE SQUEEEEEEE! WE SOARED!


oh cruel fates,
tis not to be
for mom is sick
and happy we
...are not.
(the "Mangosteen" thing really throwing me off here, sorry.)


oh cruel fates,
we take it back
you're kind to us
for LIVE we shall!
just not in Mesa
nor e'er we will.


ENOUGH WITH THE MANGOSTEEN, IT'S 
MESSIN' WID MY HEAD, NOW I KNOW
WHY MOM HAS TO LIVE HERE
AND EDWIN GOTTA LIVE THERE!
love,
Bhindi
not Mindy
not Cindy
not Windy
(well, only 60+mph...)
not Hindi
(actually is Hindi, but...?)

SHARED CUSTODY? NOT SO FAST!

Yesterday I wasn't feeling well and giving them their antibiotics and fresh food, water, hay, and the like (with lots of love time) was all I could manage but, boy was Bhindi out of sorts! He kept gnashing on his bars and pulling them back and forth the way

Coconut did when she wanted to run around with the boys and

couldn't if any one of them was not neutered and Edwin nicknamed

her "Black Douglas" because he always imagined her on that 

battlefield alongside "Braveheart" fighting to free Scotland.

(The same way when he came here to free my apartment

years of repressive chaos and clutter and he spoke these

unforgettable words, much the same Douglas McArthur 

did when he freed Edwin's native Homeland, the Philipinnes

of Japanese tyranny during World War II.) Edwin dramatically opened the front door much like Zorro would have, to save the day, looked around, didn't bother to even put

his backpack down: He Saw. He left. 

I said: "Where are you going? I thought you

came to help me?" (This was, after all, Presidents

Day, a day off...)

"I need a haircut."

And off he went.

Seriously.

Later, he renamed Bhindi "Mangosteen" and took

out a lot of garbage and did some cleaning then

 returned to Seattle. A grand time was had by all,

particularly MangoWHOZIT?

The point is...yesterday, Bhindi-Steen hadn't had 

any magical Vinny time and I hadn't even noticed.

Last night I remembered, placed Vinny in his

cage, the two played chase until I started falling

asleep, and Vinny went back into YumYum's

cage to sleep with him in their sleeping bag,

the one that saved their lives by keeping

them warm and by a Miracle having their

cage placed away from the others'

and so far, they are running about 

with more energy than I HAVE!

ON  MONDAY we expect to receive a generous gift of
the same pen you see on the top-left, the one shared by 
YumYum and VinnyGuinea with lots of space and no top.
 It can even be connected to the new one with a (very strong) divider (or three or ten) to keep the two males from actually
fighting while each can rub noses with Vinny when he
is in the other cage. Meanwhile, they love the configuration
of tiny, narrow mazes, large lanes, huts, boxes, cuddle cups,
hay, water, food, and lots of paw-print fleece lining their
playground and each has an abundance of time to share
with VinnyGuinea now that I understand how valuable it
is to each pig to be with him. FAVORITE OF FAVORITES:
THE ONE AND ONLY MAGIC CARROT!!!!!!!
(THANK YOU, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!) 
VINNY SCOOTS UP AND DOWN EL RAPIDO
 LIKE A SLIDING BOARD AND IT MUST
BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED!)
My nurse came today and saw them doing their
NASCAR RACE-AROUND-YUM-YUM'S-CAGE
since I had just put them in their Runabout
and she could not stop laughing!
Now that's a good nurse!
thank you for all your love...
hope to make it to Molly Movie Night if no migraine,
You have all given me a new definition of the
word "friend" to which I now aspire...


love,
to all of you