A Piggy Post!

Piggy, the affectionate term for Guinea Pigs or Cavies.

I put mine out on the grass today as it was such a lovely day.

Felix and Bailey

Dennis

Felix

Bailey

Piggy Lips.

He is so cute.

Bailey is my friendliest, and comes when I call him.

Which he got rewarded with dandelions today.

Murphy and Jeremy aka Jay, drew the short straw and had the smaller cage on the grass, but they were okay about that.

Poor Murphy has a bit of a wry neck, but it doesn't bother to affect him.

Dennis is growing into a very handsome guinea pig.

These boys seem to be getting on very well together.

Felix having a rest.

Bailey resting as well, with Dennis leaning up against him.

They enjoyed their day on the grass and as is probably obvious I enjoyed photographing them!

Tuesday in the Garden.

I'm wearing my green gardening gloves out, so started using the 'posh' ones today.  They aren't as good for prickly things, but otherwise work well.

I spent some time in the front garden weeding and filled up my round weed bin which then went into the garden waste bin.  It is chocka block full now ready for collection on Thursday.

Some lovely flowers in the garden.

Some beautiful blossom appearing on the trees.

Lovely to see colour in the garden.

I made some seed pots from toilet rolls.

I've planted some French Runner beans in these.

I planted some out of date flowers - Aubretia Purple Cascade in the plum cardboard holders so it will be interesting to see if they come up.

I have added a row of beetroot and a row of carrots next to the parsnip row in the top bed I dug over last week.

I had sprouts with my lunch today - salmon sandwich with home made bread.

It was Jeremy and Murphy's turn out in the run today.

Beautiful!

I just love this photo I took this morning on our group walk.  I wish I'd taken more, but was chatting so much, it was the only photo I took!  It was a beautiful day, cold but one of those really lovely mornings when everything looks so beautiful.  It was rather muddy in places though!

I can't believe it is already the end of November.  Time sure has flown by.  We have a busy week ahead... our younger son's PIP assessment on Tuesday, Percy's Chemo on Wednesday and my scan and then my car is going in to be serviced on Friday.  There was a group dinner on Friday but I think realistically I am going to have to miss it which is a shame.  (Thinking I have probably repeated myself here!) 

I'm looking after my son and daughter in law's guinea pigs for a few days and they brought some watermelon down for them.... this is one of mine Jay (Jeremy) enjoying a slice.

I made myself another little bear as I discovered 'Lawrence' is difficult to photograph.  I made this new one from a man's shirt I bought from a charity shop.  I made him a pair of trousers and knitted him a blue jumper.  

The little bear in front 'Potter' was made by a friend who sent him to me a few years ago.

I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend and has a lovely Sunday.

Pets!

I can fit!  Stanley squeezed into Percy's bed.

'Jay' (Jeremy) is bigger than Sylvester now! 

Bailey and Felix enjoy the grass

Food for us?  

Dallas and Dundee always on the lookout for food.

The two wild newbies that I am taming for my son and future DIL are a bit quieter now than they were, but they are still very jittery.  These two had never really been handled and the first few weeks would panic every time I opened the cage, and twice 'Mental Mickey' would take a dive bomb out of it!

Friday Already?!

I started to do some work in the garden yesterday, but by 12.30 the rain started coming down, so I had to abandon my attempts.  I am pleased with what I have got done so far though and perhaps this is a good way of 'pacing' myself...something I am not very good at when I am not feeling quite so bad - I want to get all I can get done that I can.

Today I managed to do some more gardening and now most of the planting out has been done with the exception of the larger plants.

Earlier in the week we had bought some plants.  There is a fabulous nursery not too far from us that has great prices, so we stocked up!

This wonderful selection for the various pots and hanging baskets.

These four plants - difficult to tell in this photo, but there are three Jasmine, a Bottlebrush and a Ceanothus

I have started to clear in front of the Cavy shed.  This was last done about six years ago now I think it was so it was well overdue.  What started this off was the fact that the original planter had rotted away so had to be thrown away.  We found a new one that won't rot yesterday that I thought would be perfect for the spot so we brought it home with us.  Armed with the plants above, I started clearing the area, re-shingling, although I have now run out of shingle so it is only partially finished.

Before, after I had removed the rotted wooden planter

After weeding, putting down shingle and potting up the new planter.

Just need to get some more shingle so I can finish it.  We may have a bag at the end of the back garden - hopefully!

I planted up the hanging baskets - two on either side of the window.

A couple are hanging from our metal archway

Plus one from the Cavy Shed.

The wall planter also got new plants.

I had lots of pots to fill!

It is still rather 'messy' in this area, I now need to clear it, paint the shed and sand down and paint the seat.

We got the paint for the shed and seat today, so hopefully I can start that job tomorrow.

Our wheelbarrow 'people' also have some plants...

The roses are looking great.

The above photo was taken with my Canon, the photo below with my husband's Panasonic Lumix

This was is one of my birthday roses - it is called 'Birthday Girl'

Today it had opened up a bit more.  I took a couple of photos on different settings.

My other birthday rose is also flowering well.

This one is called 'Happy Birthday'

We have a lot of self seeded foxglove in the garden and they are also looking gorgeous.

In the 'edible' garden...

The gooseberries are coming along nicely.

We have some raspberries.

The beans have also started flowering.

The piggies got cleaned out today.

They always enjoy rummaging around in the fresh hay.

They also have a nice pile of freshly cut grass.

They have all put on a bit of weight as well, which is good to see - shows they have settled in well.

Bailey is very fond of the 'Loop' treats.  

This time he is trying out 'Mint & Thyme' Loops.

Oops!  She caught me...Felix was trying to carry his off to eat in secret.

Stanley had his birthday on the 6th June and is now one year old.

His ears are still defying gravity it seems!

Although I caught him here just before he ran off as he was in a very playful mood.