I'd be more happy if I didn't have to go to DH's employee's wedding Saturday and miss a pig show :-(

But it's been sooo cold all this week and last weekend, and off and on before that, that I haven't been keeping up with gardening.  I mean, last Saturday it poured so hard I never even took out the souled pig bedding. And Sunday it was 50s with a gale force wind, so about all I did was to dump the bedding. OK, I picked asparagus and grass for the pigs, too. But then I took a hot bath to warm up again.

The downside is, of course, that everyone else in the darn county has also been waiting for gardening weather and the garden stores willl be full. Maybe I can sneak out early Saturday before the darn wedding. Ugh, but then I won't have time to do the pigs. I doubt I'll want to get up early enough to do everything. I'll just clean extra pigs tomorrow I guess so all I have to do is feed on Saturday. Aren't you glad I figured this out just now? LOL.

I'm still mad there's no shows next weekend. The weekend after there is, but I have to go out of town for DH's awards conference. The weekend after THAT I can hopefully show. I have to cut back on pigs so I hope to take a bunch and come back to be able to separate some.

I have I think five young show quality Texels. The two boys (one of which is for sale) are big for their age. They're nearly 32 oz. but don't have the coat of an Intermediate yet! The other three are decent but when I showed them last they were just barely out of junior class and so their coats looked immature, and I'll bet by the next show they'll be just barely over Intermediate size.  Ugh.

This happens a lot. I had a BOB Texel who was just gorgeous. Unfortunately she got BOB as an older Intermediate, and then there were no more shows for the winter, and when I showed her in spring, even the judge said how gorgeous she was but her coat, alas, was "past its prime" and dumped her.  By the next show I couldn't keep her coat from frizzing and it was time to breed her anyway.

What a pain. Geez with Teddies I showed a older sow who was pregnant with her second or third litter, and while she didn't win, she beat several other nice pigs. But Texels are such widdow huggy bwears. I don't mind showing them while young and then breeding them, I just won't be making a heap of champions. Oh well.