When Pigs Fly into Your Heart and the Meet Greet of the Pigs

 I posted the other day about this

book and the woman that wrote it.

I love reading on 

this book and remembering

when Ms. Lawanda posted these

stories on FB, before deciding 

to write this book.

One funny thing about this book,

is the names have been changed

to protect the innocent!

Just kidding, when the pigs

started their journey across

several properties to visit, 

and eat off Ms. Lawanda,

she had no clue their names.

Visiting with them daily, she

and her grandkids gave 

these visitors NEW

names.

This is Razor 

AKA (per Ms. Lawanda)

Winston.

Winston was around when

I started visiting the 

farm. Named by the 

owner, Chris. 

I recall at one point 

Chris telling me that 

Razor was not a potbelly,

but he thinks Razor had

a mix of a Razorback pig.

That explained to me why

he looked different

than the others. 

 

In the book Razor is

mentioned as having hair that

stood up. He was the first visitor

that went venturing out off 

his home property, over the 

fields, through the grass and 

through the fence.

After a little time Ms. Lawanda

mentions that he brought his

girlfriend with him and that

he was protected of her.

She named this pig, 

Pricilla. I knew this girl as

Maybelline. Very shy, not

at all at ease with people.

Then came the other two.

Leonard AKA Oreo

and Wilbur, which somehow

Ms. Lawanda had him

named Wilbur. Could be that at

that time she was able to 

meet up with Chris and 

knew Wilbur and Wilbur.

Let me not leave Arnold 

out of the mix, however,

Arnold did not make the book 

cause at the time all the

traveling between properties,

I think Arnold was just

too big to care or

the others did not ever 

tell him about the great meals

they were all getting...

DAILY!

In the book Ms. Lawanda

was not as close to Orea, 

she thought he was pushy. 

However, Orea (Leonard)

was my fav!

Lenny was the only pig that 

Chris ever bought as a piglet.

The others came to him via

folks thinking potbellies

would make great indoor pets

and not taking into account, 

they still get 

BIG!

When I started dating Chris,

all the pigs had free range of the 

property, all except 

Leonard. Leonard was in a 

fenced in area. Why, that 

was his home before the others

came and every time Chris tried

to free him, he would not come

out. 

I am here to tell you, that did not

last long with me.

I called Leonard, Lenny

and Chris and started to notice he

was looking thin. 

Oh man, really, a thin

pig? Chris was getting concerned

also and thought he would 

need to call a vet. 

We were feeding Lenny

extra feed to try to fatten

him up. One day Chris was

in his shop and I went down 

to visit Lenny. I opened the gate, 

told him that if he wanted to eat,

he needed to come out.

I felt the problem was that

Lenny had eaten up all the 

grass and weeds in his area, 

and did not have the chance 

to graze all day on 13 odd acres 

of grass!

He needed to graze.

I walked to the shop with Lenny in 

toll and told Chris to 

come see who ventured out

of his area. Lenny never went

back in his fenced in area.

I think that might have been the 

reason that he was pushy when

it came to food. 

But with that said, he was

my fav!

He heard my car coming, he 

met me. I remember one day

standing outside the shop talking

with Chris, not having my glasses 

on, so I asked Chris what pig that 

was in the pasture, It was Lenny, 

so I called out to him, he stopped but

his tail was going 90 to nothing.

I called again, he turned and I saw

the funniest thing. he took off running.

Now mind you he had put on weight

at this time and it was funny seeing this 

big ole pig running down the slight

hill of the pasture to come to me!

Chris has a fridge in the shop and

he keeps crackers in there for the

pigs. They will come to the garage

and stand there till you feed them.

 

If you hold a cracker

in front of a pig, and back them 

up with it, telling them to sit, 

they will. 

The love their crackers. 

Anyway, since these old pics

were taken, Chris has lost

Razor

Wilbur

Maybelline and 

Arnold.

Lenny is still there along

with a new little 

pig. A pink one like Arnold but

this is Wilbur 2.

I might even share more of 

my adventures of the farm 

with you tomorrow.

Thanks for reading,

Pam