HALLOWEEN NEVER WENT AWAY!

WHY ARE WE STILL STARTLED? (Besides the bone-chilling, freakin-freezing temps and snow on high?)
READ THE NEXT POST TO SEE WHY! THINGS HERE ARE NOT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE!
(Mainly because it isn't raining...)
READ ON, Journeying Boys & Girls, READ ON!

HAPPY PIG-O-WEEN2!

South Park - Pandemic 2: The Startling Fan Trailer - YouTube

^^^WITNESS THEIR  TERRIFYING POWER!

WE WERE TOO STARTLED TO POST THIS ON HALLOWEEN

BECAUSE IT'S...TOO...

STARTLING!

Watch and be afraid, be
 VERY, VERY AFRAID!
GUINEASAURS...? YOU ASK?
YES, REAL, LIVE "SOUTH PARK" 
GUINEASAURS!


muah-ha-Haaaaa...MuAH-HA-HAAA!
muah-ha-Haaaah-HAAAAAAAA!


(From the brilliant, twisted minds of
those who brought the 9 Tony award-winning - you can't get tickets to THIS- "The Book of Mormon" to Broadway,
Trey Parker and Matt Stone. 
"God's Favorite Musical!")

GENEROUS GIFTS

Thanks to a generous donation made to the Sanctuary and the kindness of Jen Sawyer of Jens Custom Crafts, whose website we have linked on the right under Blogs We Follow, the Piggles shall be receiving a brand new, custom-made Snowflake Hut and YumYum will have his very own CandyCane Tunnel since Calvin sort of "borrowed" his and...sort of kept it! Meanwhile, Coconut sort of "borrowed" MacNutPie's customized Cuddle Cup because she was living happily in her cardboard box until she dragged said box over on TOP OF MacNut's Cuddle Cup and became part of the 99% and OCCUPIED Pie Street, leaving MacNut out in the cold. So, he will be receiving a Hut only slightly smaller than the beautiful snowflake hut pictured here...and Jen is going to surprise us so we don't know what it will look like.

Just so you know, Jen makes beautiful, soft, moisture-wicking, washable things for a whole bevy of darlings from dormice and hedgehogs to cats and anything soft and cuddly...chinchillas, ferrets, you name it! O.K. we made up the dormouse. Are they real? Yes, they are. They just don't live here. They live in England we think.

Bedtime and way past...good night, all...we can hardly wait to send you another photo essay of Guinea Piggles play like Guinea Villagers in their new GuineaVillas! Mayhem certain to ensue and entertain.

And donor person, even though you are still without power and cannot read this: THANK YOU!
WE ARE DEEPLY GRATEFUL AS IT WILL BEGIN SNOWING AT LOWER ELEVATIONS THIS WEEK AND IT IS ALREADY BrrrrrrrrrrrrCOLD!

Sincerely Yours,
YumYum and the Piggles

My Best Friend and Me!

Last month when one of the companies mom does business with offered us a free photo mug, I jumped at the chance to put this on it and send it to Eric to remind him how much fun we had "bonding" two summers ago up in the high Sierra Nevadas! He said opening the package was like trying to get into Fort Knox or something because we all took turns with the tape and since it got stuck on our delicate toes and long feet, we kind of made an impenetrable mess! But he said Lorien laughed and laughed. Yeah, that surfer really funny, him thinking me a hamster.

But we're good, we're good now, and in the next post you can read about how I inspired him to do a wonderful act of generosity even though I am not named specifically in the newspaper article or on Eric's Facebook or anywhere, actually,
but only because I am YumYum, TOO HUMBLE TO TAKE CREDIT FOR SUCH AN ALTRUISTIC IDEA THAT I THOUGHT OF ALL BY MYSELF EVEN IF
ERIC AND HIS BRO-IN-LAW GET ALL THE CREDIT FOR THE IDEA THAT I THOUGHT UP ALL BY MYSELF O.K. NOT REALLY BUT I COULD HAVE.

Thank you,

YumYum

My Buddy Eric Still Doing Good Stuff!

PFINGSTEN: Molly the Owl is still making the rounds, with a recent stop in Africa

^^^CHECK THIS OUT!^^^

Yesterday a newspaper article published the coolest story about Eric's book,
"Molly the Owl" making her way across the world, doing good works for
needy people. (Well, who among us does not need Molly? I mean, really?)

Molly like the Energizer Bunny, she just keeps on going...touching millions over the

webcam and now, countless more, in the farthest reaches of the world!

Go Molly, Eric, and Lorien and Lorien's brother and his family and - and -

well, good on ya, mates!

Happy PIG-O-WEEN!

THANK YOU, MARIFAN, FOR GIVING US THE PERFECT NAME FOR OUR SPECIAL DAY!

Carrots are our Treat-O-Ween FAVE-O-FAVES (very, VERY orange carrots & carrot-tops!) as we all scramble to make ourselves as SCARY! as possible like that episode of South Park, "The Startling" (see somewhere below, it posted!) but we will fail to frighten because of the Unbearable Cuteness of Being...us!

TOO CUTE,  TOO CUTE, WE ARE JUST TOO****CUTE!!!!!

BOO!

{Wonderful photo by Pixel Dust Photography}

PssssssT! Mom Playing Miles! Let's SWING!

AIN'T NOTHING A PIGGIE LOVE MORE THAN TO SWING AND AIN'T NOTHIN'
BETTA TO SWING TO THAN "KIND OF BLUE" AND MILES!

Winter? Not round these parts cuz we is swingin' hot! However, we do need "jaunty"
little hipster-jazz hats...

"MOM! HATS, PLEASE!"

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 50th Anniversary - YouTube

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 50th Anniversary - YouTube

We are capturing the essence of jazz on Halloween.

Don't ask why because we don't know why.

Could it be the cold weather and low elevation

snow in the forecast making us wanna swing

like only a pig can swing?

Yeah, baby, dat it! We love Miles.

"Miles was the essence of hipness."

And so are we!

"Thriller!"

Every Halloween the citizens of our fair City of Subdued Excitement put on a "Thriller-Thon" where everybody dress up like Michael Jackson then sing and dance "Thriller" like zombies en masse. Not to be left behind, MacNutPie has been letting his toenails grow just a little longer and is seen here rehearsing on a carrot! Yeah, that kinda scary, Mr. McPie, hope you don't get mistaken for a BellingHAMSTER cuz everybody know you is a BellinGuineaPigula! Feel sorry for that carrot, though! EEeekK!

The Many Moods of McPlumpKinPie

MacNutPie is preparing for Halloween and trying out different expressions because cards and photographs of our liddle McPlumpKinPie are selling quite well. He expects the people from Geico
to call him any minute, and has been practicing the word, "Row" every day for an entire day! But with Halloween approaching, he is hoping to nail a "new look." These are his "Qualities of Endearment" expressions. Don't ya just wanna reach into YumYum's new tunnel and pluck him out to have and to hold? He's such a good pigula, too! MacNutPie, we love ya just the way y'are.

Please don't change a thing!

ABOUT LAST NIGHT...

Winter arrived with a power outage, a cold, cold night, and for the first time, mom announced:

"I no longer like being cold." Well, tough. Cold it was. But in times of trial and tribulation, we all get together and count our blessings, so it went a little
something like:

1. Thank You, God, that all the piggies are each back in their cages and not still running around on the floor hiding because I could not find them when the lights were ON and perish the thought of a guinea pig round-up in complete and utter DARKNESS.

2. Thank You, God, that we were all guinea piggin' in the bedroom so it's already warmed up, not like the living room or the cars downstairs with frost on their windshields.

3. Thank You, God, that we are all together.

The third thank-you was especially poignant for the Miracle of YumYum! Mom finally got the nerve to call the vet and describe what happened to YumYum on Saturday, how she found him standing up on his hind legs, his front feet glued to one of the higher bars like a taxidermist had stuffed him while
in his cage, in the position piggies take when they want to peer into one another's cages, nuzzle noses, nuzzle butts, try to steal stray stalks of hay from the other guineas...except that his body was still, cold, and he was completely catatonic! She had to pry him off, wrap him gently in my special blanket, and he slowly regained consciousness, but remained limp and weak all day. The vet hospital had already closed and it was Saturday so it was up to mom. And God. We all watched mom cry and rock him gently, certain he wouldn't live through the night, but not COMPLETELY certain...finally, his eyes began moving, he began moving, but not much. Yet, every day he grew a wee bit stronger and mom decided NOT to take him to the vet, afraid that if he'd had a seizure or stroke, the trauma of taking him could trigger another, possibly fatal episode.

So, yesterday our wonderful vet called. When mom described what happened, she was completely astonished that he was alive and doing as well as he is, and agreed it better not to bring him in. She said, "He was near death" she gasped, "I can't believe he didn't die! It sounds like he was dying!" Which, even though mom never dared think the thought, was true. And we all knew it. Because...

And this part is REALLY REALLY HARD TO ADMIT HERE, but we know mom already had pulled out her softest pillowcase...just in case...she knew where she wanted to bury him...but she couldn't bear the thought.

The vet kept saying, "I can't believe he his alive, that is just a MIRACLE!" Well, we here believe in miracles!

So, we didn't mind losing power and being a little chilly last night because it gave us a Holy Dark Night Opportunity (with no electronic distractions) to thank God for our little YumYum's life! For all our lives! And for the lives of our loved ones...and a time to remember those who have passed on to the Rainbow Bridge...And because we were using a camp lantern, mom felt like we were all camping out. She not allowed (by the common sense of friends and the maintenance crew) to use candles or candle lanterns, so we camped out and counted our blessings and fell asleep, somehow warmer for it, somehow peaceful for it, somehow immune to the black out because so much light was illuminating us from inside each one of our souls.

Love,
Calvin the small

Our Very Own VERY SPECIAL Holiday Stamps!

You like? At My Piggie.com Shop they feature the most unique designs we

have ever seen! All designs were made with real guinea pig poo turned into ART!

That's what we love about ART! Since all purchases help support guinea pigs,

we think Poo Gifts are the most romantic way anyone can say "I love you"

over the Holidays or any day. Are we right? Of course we're right!

Mom is gunnin' for the stamps to send her cards to everyone she knows

because they represent how special her friends are.

If you are fortunate enough to receive a card with a guinea pig poo stamp,

save it, for it means you are loved.

By a sick and twisted friend.

Nighters All, Dream of Poo!

We dream of EATING IT...AH, SWEET DREAMS...