Showing posts with label wild boar pig. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wild boar pig. Show all posts

Monday, August 15, 2011

Some weekend !!!!

About 4 weeks ago, me and Erik went to Germany to see a house.
We wanted to buy a house in Germany since we were there on a holiday 4 years ago.
Our dream location  : I quote Wiki :
The Palatinate Forest (German: Pfälzerwald) is a low-mountain region in southwestern Germany, located in Palatinate in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The forest is a designated nature park (German: Naturpark Pfälzerwald), equivalent Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), covering 1,771 km² 

The house was magical, the area is unbelievable beautiful and it is a 4 1/2 hour drive from our home here in Holland.
The first couple of years we will use it as a vacation home and when my son is on his own 2 feet we will move to Germany.

The house is from about 1777 and build of red sandstone with timber frame and in a really good condition !
There is another house attached that needs a lot of TLC ( the toilet is outside ! )
It is surrounded by woods and low mountains and a little stream runs through the garden.
The water in the house comes from a mountain well !!!! I can't wait to drink that, water is my favourite drink ( and coffee) !
When we were there 4 weeks ago this lovely man ;-) Marcus showed us the garden and pointed out the Wild Boar tracks.
Well, that is why I made the litter of little piggies ! 
We made an offer, they accepted and last weekend we talked about the final details.
If all goes well we will be the official owners in a few weeks !
And now the pics :











Erik and I are still in a slightly state of shock, we  can hardly believe we will spend our free time in such a magical place and my goodness what inspiration this is : Can you imagine the animals and gnomes being created here ?

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

The entire litter !

The one on the left is very anxious to go to Hittyville !
The second one ( standing) is also adopted and will go to Utrecht, Holland.
The piggie laying down loves Pinky and imitates Pinky's favourite pastime.
The little sitting piggie is very affectionate and attach herself easily.
And there is the one with his nose on the ground, not sure what he is looking for, maybe truffles or little mice . . . . . . 






Sunday, August 7, 2011

Pyjama !

Good morning little ones! What are you doing?
Good morning Uncle Ukki ! 
We  are knitting a pyjama for the little piggie, we heard Helen say he needs a pyjama.

But Ginny, where did you learn to knit?

Well Uncle Ukki, I guess we didn't tell you but Arthur and I lived in Scotland for a while, as a matter of fact, on the Fair Isle, a tiny island that is part of the Shetland Islands.
They make beautiful knit-work and we learned it from a very nice man.
Higgins can not knit but we are teaching him and he is trying very hard. ( see his tongue hanging out :-)
We let him knit the leg part of the pyjama so he only needs one colour .
Well children it looks very good !

Thank you Uncle Ukki! Can you move a bit you're blocking our example!
So, I'll have to take measures and see how the colour is matching

Thursday, July 28, 2011