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July 2nd, 2010
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Peegy Cam!
February 1st, 2010
This morning I realized my snackordie.com site had been down since yesterday, which lead to a bit of panic of my part. I’d forgotten to renew my domain, which expired a few days ago. Now all is well.
This past weekend I moved the old computer system into the living room, which is the piggy domain. I hooked up a webcam and violà! Streaming PeegyCam!
Check out the UStream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/peegies! You might see small, fat mammals or a pigloo being motored around. I’m planning on having it run while I’m at work so I can keep an eye on the little squeakers.
Merry Pigmas!
December 26th, 2009
The piggy secret santa gifts came from the piggies Lily, Isabel, Luke, with some help from Janet. So many gifts for the piggies!
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- Card from the piggies and Janet!
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- Flashbang Fatbotton and Benito want to open presents!
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- Flashbang reads the gift label.
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- Piggies open a huge present.
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- Flashbang is excited about a tent!
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- Flashbang runs in.
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- Flashbang checks out tent.
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- Flashbang has a scratch in the tent.
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- Edgeworth tries to open a treat.
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- Benito checks out large flannel blankie.
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- Flashbang and Edgeworth check out orange drops.
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- All the gifts from Isabel, Lily, Luke, and Janet!
The candle house comes from Janet, and the lip glosses come from the piggies. Thank you piggies and Janet!
Piggy Secret Santa
December 18th, 2009
The piggies received their secret santa gifts today from the piggies Isabel, Lily, Luke. They had help with wrapping the presents from Janet, who sent me a gift too! I love the guinea pig wrapping paper. Flashbang, Edgeworth, abd Benito must’ve been very good piggies this year.
Boars and Bulls
November 15th, 2009
I fixed something! I put needled and thread to my torn Vibram FiveFingers and violà:
VFF Stitched
Not the prettiest piece of work, but it keeps the rocks out. Feet are as sensitive as hands and can feel those little peddles rolling around in the sole.
From a couple of weeks ago, my bull riding costume for Halloween:
Bull Riders at Work
Sarah (on the right) discovered the costume at Party City. I wasn’t going to dress up this year but that costume is so great.
Last but not least, a sampling of pleasing piggy pictures:
Upper left corner: Flashbang Fatbottom kept trying to move the pigloos into the carrot cube.
Benito loves his dandelion greens!
Flashbang barely fits in the tent. Later he tried chewing the lace around the enterance off.
Acorn House
November 8th, 2009
The newest addition to the piggy arena, a very nice acorn house. This was handmade by Sewing 4 A Cause. It’s quite plushy and comfy. Benito was a little scared of it at first. Because it’s been warm here – mid 60s! – the piggies haven’t seemed too interested in going in the acorn house. For the moment it’s being mostly a chew toy for them.
YouTube video of Flashbang Fatbottom’s inspection.
Flashbang Fatbottom and Acorn House
Benito and Acorn House
Halloween Piggy Photo Shoot Ahoy!
October 18th, 2009
Last night, after polishing off a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Half Baked frozen yogurt, I made little pirate hats out of water bottle caps, black felt, and stickers for the Halloween piggy photo shoot. The bottle cup was glued to a rectangular piece of felt to create the hat. Once the glue had set, I cut out a pirate sticker and pressed it onto the front flap of felt.
The background is a bottom of a box covered with paper and stickers.
Edgeworth and Flashbang were both content to sit for their photo shoot. Benito is a squeak machine and kept running around, that little pirate!
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- The setting for the photo shoot.
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- Edgeworth
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- Flashbang and Benito
Happy Piggies Video!
October 13th, 2009
Watch the Happy Piggies Video starring Flashbang Fatbottom, Benito, and Edgeworth below! Flashbang Fatbottom popcorns – pops up into the air with happiness – at the :47 mark.
Benito gets a permanent piggy timeout
September 13th, 2009
The piggy Benito is no longer allowed to play with Edgeworth. A few days ago I noticed a fleck of what I thought was bedding in Edgeworth’s coat, only to discover it was a bit of a scab and Benito had clawed poor fat Edgeworth. Now the piggy arena is split so that Benito is unable to get at the popover piggy. I checked up on Edgeworth’s rump this evening and it’s healing, but still not a pretty sight.
Split Piggy Arena
Not sure what to do with about the cage situation. I’m thinking about expanding it, but at the very least Edgeworth is safe and is getting fresh basil directly from the plant. He really likes that.
This morning I did a 11 mile run sponsored by the running store Tortoise and Hare. Before the race I met another person who was also wearing Vibram FiveFingers! Turns out he runs barefoot, too. We were both stumped as to what to do when winter comes around as the FiveFingers are not meant for cold weather. I have to figure out what to do about that fairly soon, but for the moment I’m enjoying the lovely weather.
The Green Pepper Mystery
September 2nd, 2009
Every evening the piggies get a snack, usually involving green pepper (Flashbang Fatbottom’s favorite.) After placing the veggies on the floor of the piggy arena, I plopped down in front of the TV for a bit. During a commercial I checked on the piggies and saw this:
How'd he do that?
Maybe he was saving the veggie piece for later.
Justin at birthdayshoes.com, a site about all things related to Vibram FiveFingers, kindly posted my email about my last 5k race.