Such Fun!

We went shopping today (yes I'm a shopaholic) and purchased lots of fun things for the pigs. So I got the materials needed to convert the current awkward doors on the banks (1.2m way too long) into bifolds (8 hinges, 2.4m wood and staples for the staple gun). Plus I finally started buying tools (which makes me extraordinarily happy), so we bought the ryobi base pack with an impact drill (great idea, all additional tools are wonderfully cheap), a huge set of drill bits and drivers as well as a portable vise with it's own stand. I also bought the base coat for the cages.

So tomorrow I'll be working on the doors and turning them into wonderful folding doors. Then I can at the very least paint the sow run and move Ebbie into her proper cage. She's a total houdini and has so far been banned from the floor of the animal, two separate grass cages and the pet store cages. But I'd like her to move and run and stay in breeding condition.

I'm seriously debating on placing her with Eddie earlier then I'd originally planned. Summer is fricking freezing up here and we still haven't even reached 25 degrees. The pigs are spending all their time in cozies shivering.

Eddies coat is so soft and long I'm thinking if I wait till Feb he'll be five months old and will need wrappers soon, and Eb might eat his coat. So I'm thinking I might pop them together at the start of January. So he can stay with her till the show in Feb by which time she'll hopefully be preggers. And then he can go in wrappers without a prob.

That's if his coat stays in tact, I'm a bit suspicious I'll actually get that far.

In other news I've been practicing wrapping on Ebony and I seem to be doing well, the wraps are staying in well and she seems comfortable.

In other news I'm toying with joining the ACA. They are apparently having shows in Coffs Harbour, Cessnock and Gosford in 2012. I'm particularly interested in the Coffs shows. Coffs is only three hours from here so I can do those shows in a day which would be great. The Sydney shows are wonderful but they mean I spend all of Monday traveling. Except my uni schedule means I absolutely no questions asked have to be sitting in class at 11 am on Monday mornings. So I'd have to get up at like 3 am and race home, dump the pigs off and race to uni. Since the shows themselves are exhausting and since I've recently developed the new fun concept of migraines it's not something I'm very enthusiastic over.

Anyway I have some great new pics of Eddie with his gorgeous coat and Ebbie's new wrappers so I'll load them up and post them tomorrow.