EDITORIAL STAFF MEETING FOR READERS' BENEFIT

YumYum has called us all to an editorial meeting about our blog. As Editor-in-Chief, he has the right to do these sorts of things. What he wants us to do is keep it snappy, zippy, add panache and pizzazz, and put a lid on mom's ongoing pie-hole of "blah, blah, blah" stream of consciousness trains of thoughts not even connected to the same train all leading in different directions pulling into different stations.
(not to be discriminating, but we aren't the ones with traumatic brain injury, so why should YOU, our BELOVED READERS, have to suffer?)


This is a guinea pig blog: By the Pigs, about the Pigs, and For the Pigs.
And our friends.
Who don't have lots of time.
Prepare for a new look!
Coming soon from the gray zone.
WHEEEEEEEEEK!  

Psssssst! Vinni? You There? Let's take Bhindi's Breakfast!

FOR KEZIA...

 

Dear Kezia,

We drew this for you last July and - OOPS!

Forgot to finish and send it to

Our Favorite 7th grader in the WORLD!

The title, if you can read the tiny letters in the

lower left, are: "KEZIA'S KINGDOM"

love,

all us here

Nightly News: ‘Super Moon’ to light up night sky

Nightly News: ‘Super Moon’ to light up night sky:

'via Blog this'
look: "Super Mom!"
no, that's "Moon!"
"oh."

BEST FRIENDS!

 

This is my best friend since 1975, Jerry, and Cyndi, his music partner (he also has an amazing wife!) right before their performance at a "Bob and Beatles" Concert. Have NO idea who Bob is, Beatles good 'nuff for us.  Jer attended BOTH Woodstocks, the original 3-Day Woodstock and the ReUnion, too. While Cyndi writes the best songs and they have made CD's but my favorite song is one about a starfish she wrote. Jerry's played guitar for me, taught me how to birdwatch, almost got us eaten by a 'gator in the Okeefenokee Swamp back in the 1970's, and introduced me to the poetry of Walt Whitman, Blake, the Transcendentalists, Thoreau, played vinyl recordings of Richard Burton reciting "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" for me when I lived in a little attic room in Atlanta where he and his wife still live (not in an attic) but Atlanta in a small cabin with an owl box! Jerry now has an owl who comes and sits on a branch just outside his window whenever he is ill. True: it comes and watches over him...In many ways, I can trace my life as an adult (I was about 18 when we met? something) all the good passion for nature and birds and wildlife and writing and travelling in swamps and places full of birdsong influenced by his friendship and it remains so to this day. He is in me, has been since we met. Funny how you don't realize stuff like that until way later.


Nothing in life compares to having a good friend for life.
I am convinced that we are still together because we never fell
in love and got married! We simply love each other. Always have. Always will!
And we had ADVENTURES.
REALLY, REALLY GREAT ADVENTURES.


Miss ya, bro.

Rain, Rain, Rain! But the LETTUCE is delicious!

 

You all know I'm not one to complain so don't be thinking to
yourselves, "Ah, we can feel a complaint comin' on, we can."
Because you'd be wrong.
MOM'S THE COMPLAINER. WHINER. 
GRAY AND RAIN.
NO LATTE.
OH BUGGERS, WHY EVEN GET UP?
She decided the only reason was to play with us. 
And despite deadlines and grown up stuff, that's exactly
what we did!
See, no complaints!

B Roll Appleby location shots - YouTube

B Roll Appleby location shots - YouTube:
^^^^look! see WHERE FAIRY LIVES: TRANQUILITY AND...SUNSHINE????????????
'via Blog this'

IT IS STILL WINTER HERE. RAINY. GRAY. COLD. GRAY. SNOWY IN THE MOUNTAINS. GRAY. SKY IS GRAY. LAND IS GRAY. IN BETWEEN IS GRAY. IT'S ALL GRAY AND COLD, GRAY AND WET, GRAY AND GRAY.
GRAY AND WINDY AND WET. GRAY AND YOU CAN'T TELL THE SEA FROM THE LAND WET. GRAY YOU CAN'T TELL THE SEA FROM THE SKY GRAY. GRAY YOU CAN'T TELL WHERE THE OCEAN, LAND, ISLANDS, OR MOUNTAINS ARE IT'S THAT GRAY!LIKE AS IN STAY IN BED GRAY!
GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY
FAIRY AND HER MUM HAVE BIG BIRTHDAYS COMING UP AND WE ARE GOING TO APPLEBY.################
GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY
AND WE MAY STAY THERE!#########
FAIRY'S MUM NOT ONLY OWNS AN ESPRESSO MACHINE, SHE TOOK A CLASS IN MASTER-CRAFTS-CAVY-COFFEE-MAKING!GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY ###
IT IS STILL WINTER HERE. DID WE MENTION WE ARE MOVING TO APPLEBY?
WHERE FAIRY LIVES?##################
HAVE WE ASKED THEM FIRST?#########
UH...(psssssssst! anyone ask? no?)###########
######################################
YES, OF COURSE WE HAVE!############

UH-OH! WHAT'S THIS ABOUT HAY WE HEAR?

 

Edwin just called us from downtown Seattle a few hours ago about
Hay-Day Riots he accidentally found himself in the middle of.
Kind of reminded us of the WTO Riots back when...well, whenever they were. See Bhindi behind me? He's giving me the eye because
if there's a hay shortage...he's thinking...well, we are loving and
we will share. Not really. Mom stayed in all day finishing an art thing she promised and we all behaved. Not really. Didn't get our Runabouts thanks to "BHINDI'S BIG TOE ESCAPE" cuz now we have to be "watched" and mom had to focus on the art thing!
love,
VinniValliGuinea (in HideyFace pose)

I LOVE FAIRY!

 

I LOVE FAIRY AND SAVED MY BREAKFAST
BANANA TO SEND HER IN ENGLAND IN CASE SHE WANTS A SNACK TO REMIND HER OF ME, AND I PACKED IT GOOD;
SEE HOW IT FIT RIGHT IN THE BOX?
(oops, mom seen me - gotta go!)
love, 
BhindiBananaBoy

GOOD MORNING, IT'S BREAKFAST TIME!

 

OH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING...
COFFEE NOW, MOM, OR THE TOE GETS IT!

 

p.s. it's "THAT TIME OF THE MONTH"
again, yup, "First Friday ArtWalk" plus a
commissioned piece due...uh, tomorrow!
Plus, the Migraine Family came and brought
their cousins for early Thanksgiving, so please 
have patience with us this week if you don't hear
back right away 'cuz you saw a few posts back how "ORGANIZED"
OOPS - think I've already said too much!


Love You,
Bhindi-the-Toe-Biter-Upper
BREAKFAST of CHAMPIONS!

Kaytee Recalls Forti-Diet Pro Health Mouse, Rat and Hamster Because of Possible Salmonella Health Risk - Guinea Pig Today

Kaytee Recalls Forti-Diet Pro Health Mouse, Rat and Hamster Because of Possible Salmonella Health Risk - Guinea Pig Today

WARNING IF YOU USE ANY OF THEIR PRODUCTS, WHICH WE DO NOT. 
BUT, IF YOU DO...WATCH OUT!

Sun? Did Ingrid mention the SUN? Who has the SUN?

 

Thank you so much, Ingrid, for sending us
this beautiful portrait of Sammy, your
he-cat basking cozily in the sun's luscious
glow! We have a she-cat named Sami and
know how much she misses lying in the sun,
too...it still feels like winter here so you have
really cheered us up and given us HOPE!
Love,
Piggies Deluxe Edition