Our kids will be close enough in age to be cousins hanging out together.
We can watch them from the porch complaining about sore joints.
Piglets have been on my mind.
Today was a huge day.
Last night I went to bed thinking about pig 1. She looked too pregnant to farrow in three weeks.
I thought I missed her ovulation the first time we did AI but Mrs Oz was spot on. That meant she would be due tomorrow.
I had dreams of her delivering in her pen with her buddies eating piglets as they delivered.
Today is Bernie's day off. Jun and I coaxed a 150kg very pregnant gilt up a small ramp and into the farrowing pen.
We then had to plumb the water nipples. I taught Jun how to cut thread on GI pipe and was so thankful for the $25 pipe vise I bought last trip. It made light work of threading and connecting all the fittings for the 3 pens.
By 5 pm we had all three hooked up leak free. Pig 1 had settled in nicely and I felt very pleased with myself regarding the pen design that we built from scratch.
In the middle of all this we celebrated Jun's daughter Scarlett's sixth birthday with two roasted chickens, pancit bihun noodles and a chocolate cake. She and her parents were thrilled that we had gone to so much effort.
Bernie will be back by 6am and will be surprised at the work done and the location of pig 1, though it was his initial suggestions that got my mind running.
Jun has the 8pm and 10pm checks. I will do the 12, 2 and 4 am rounds.
We also managed to do the last pre-bernie egg hatch and banded birds. It was nice putting them in the brooder.
The truck dropped off another 8 cubic meters of gravel today.
We also scored some eucalyptus trees we will mill for the rails on the beach fence. With the d-block coops complete, the final phase of the fence project will start. 500 feet of fence to go and we will be done.
The construction crew will then move onto the new workers house. A two bedroom place with an additional two dorm rooms with private bathrooms.
My wife's parents applied for passports two weeks before we did for the kids and they were told that the wait time has gone from five weeks to nine weeks. It looks like we will get them mid November. I was hoping to take the nannies and kids to Bali before the Christmas peak season and all the Aussie families on summer vacation.
That's it for today. I will hit send once I have a signal.
