Hot pink piggies

It is really summer, and the humidity is competing with the heat for top billing.  Because of the heat Craig came by this evening to select the pigs that will be shipped tomorrow.  He marked them in pretty pink livestock crayon,

because I can't read ear notches.

It is always sad and satisfying to see these pigs leave.  Sad, because they are fun and smart and oddly entertaining, in - and I am not joking - a zen kind of way.  Pigs have this wonderful calming grunt (more oink than om) when they are happy, and I miss them until I get the next batch.  Satisfying, because they grew into such handsome hogs, who like to ham it up for the camera.

And yes - they are very dirty.  They have been wallowing in the cooling mud, and even though we hosed them off before Craig came, they managed to reapply the mud.