Calling all HAPPY DANCE Music Stations...

LOOKING FOR THE MOOSE...

WHEN THE ART-I-CANE SWEEPS THROUGH, mom pulls out every bit of salvaged paper, bark, string, and whatever we haven't eaten, paints, folds, glues, and sticks it all together because she needs to get her mojo flowin' again. Everything in these salvaged from the forest floor after our 100 mph + windstorms except the stuff she found somewhere else. She colored the paper by throwing paint into a sink full of water, throwing paper into the sinkfull of painted water, then smashing it all up, then folding or rolling or crinkling or doing whatever she needs to keep us from finding and eating it.

Mom, it real nice but where the BEWILDERED MOOSE? Or...might that be...?

Oh, nothing, gettin' too close to dinnertime to go there!

ORDINATION OF A GizzlHOOdle!

Once Duke ordained us piggies "official" Hooligans for eating our cardboard houses
(like, who don't do that?) lil'Giz wanted in and we all agree that wid a face like his,
he a DEFINITE Hooligan! Mom wants to brush and groom him, probably use our
flea comb and infect him wid our mites, so DON'T LET HER!

CONGRATS, LIL'GIZ, YOU IZ A HOOLI-SUMPIN' NOW! We is barrel-rollin' wid glee!

"Adopt-A-Piggie" Works In Progress

Dear Friends,
We remain hard at work on our "Adopt-A-Piggie" cards
in between buying piggie treats, washing and chopping and feeding piggies,
playing with piggies, cuddling piggies, piggie Runabouts,
Piggie Sleep-A-Thons with mom,
cleaning piggie water bottles and refilling them
cleaning piggie food bowls and refilling them
cleaning piggie cages and refilling them
cleaning piggies and not getting squealed at!

So, just imagine! You can simply "Adopt-A-Piggie" by purchasing cards
and not get to do all the other fun stuff!

Right now we are preparing for the First Friday Art Walk here in B'ham
where ARTISANS gallery sells non-piggie cards and drawing/paintings
then it's-a-gonna-be-PIGGIE TIME!
Can't ya just feel it in the cool, Pacific Northwest breeze?
(was that wrong, all you melters? We didn't mean it.)
OF COURSE WE MEANT IT!

Mixed Media Moose

A long time ago in a place far, far away where there was plenty of room to throw hand-made papers from around the world all over the floor, and a BIG bathroom where lots of glue and paint could play together, we used to have "Mixed Media SMACKDOWNS!" and mess up the place real good creating wall hangings strung with hemp on bamboo poles to hang up all around...above the jaws of paper-eating little monstrous's likes us! This is a close-up of part of a wall hanging about a bewildered moose. We think it was subconsciously autobiographical but would never whisper a word of it to mom! We just think Moose's expression looks somethin' familiar and all the stuff above him...kinda like the floor in her "studio" and her with that "HUH? HOW DIS ALL GET SO MESSY?" face.

...Just Sayin'

Calvin Goes EXPLORING!

Mom said my skeleton is as delicate as glass...gonna hide. Don't wanna hear!

Hmmm, this interesting: Like an explorer! Gonna climb in and see what's about!

Hey, this the perfect spot for an Explorer with a skeleton made of glass!

Think I'll just cuddle in, do my "Pig In A Blanket" routine so mom with lay down next to me.
Then wrap me up with her hand snuggled next to my nuzzle! And quietly we shall dwell together.
No talking, only the sound of one piggie purring. Nuzzlin' mom.
Yeah, Life Good when
you is Calvin the small in your Special Blanket!

Practicing PiggieSattva Meditation

Thanks, Jerry, for sending us this photograph!

‪Dalai Lama: Happiness, Compassion and Mosquitos (funny)‬‏ - YouTube

‪Dalai Lama: Happiness, Compassion and Mosquitos (funny)‬‏ - YouTube

Compassion

Compassion

We have been struggling with how to get rid of the flies

breeding in the kitchen because mom hasn't always kept

the kitchen sparkling clean, you might say...so it isn't the

fault of the flies, why kill them because she don't clean the

kitchen? So, she decided not to kill, cleaned the kitchen,

removed the screens from the windows, and invited them

to leave and fly free...

Some have. Some, not so much. Some died. In the coffee cup.

(and if it was the last coffee in the house...and mom really

wanted coffee, no, of course NOT!)

We found this video for mom. Now she feels better. And is

doing a much better job keeping the kitchen clean.

But mosquitoes, not so easy!

We are her Little Buddhas. Although, because of his lust

for stealing Raj Mahal's treats (after he has grabbed his

own and hidden them in his pigloo) we may rename

Taj Mahal the "GimmePiggie" since he has not renounced

FOOD SNATCHERY. We feel certain he never will. He

enjoys it too much. And mom gives Raj more anyway.

So he feels like it is his contribution to mom and Raj,

to teach them non-attachment. WE DOESN'T BUY IT!

But we acts like we does.

The GimmePiggie...what would Buddha do?

In Repose

GONNA READ NOW...

Mom said this a good book, so will read softly to Calvin to calm and soothe him...

Taking a Coffee Break...Where It?! Coffee-Coffee-Coffee...

Calvin the small's very own coffee cup courtesy of Lashes & he LURVES it, as you can see!

Dear Friends,

Thanks to your support, we will be taking a short (Coffee) break to work on "Adopt-A-Pig" cards and hope to have our offerings up within the week! You will be able to choose from packs of your
fave-O-fave piggies and/or drawings sold at the gallery...and 100% of the proceeds will directly benefit our Sanctuary/Hospice particularly with vet care for Calvin the small and YumYum, so just take widdle-bitty sips and stay tuned!

Love,

Calvin the small: "Where it? The coffee? Where it?"
YumYum: "Who loves ya, baby?"
Raj Mahal: "Whadda-whadda-whadda-where my lettuce?!"
Taj Mahal (running away with Raj's lettuce)
MacNutPie: "Where my GrandPigPapa? What a loo-WOW?"
& CocoNutPie: "Kezia named me and I'm Beautiful!"