Its time to shower when those flies are swarming

I wake up this morning to the sound of a mosquito buzzing in my ear. That is the worst sound in the world. I hate it. And I find I have about 6 new bites on my arms that are itching like crazy! I usually do not get bit at night, but I think it was probably the lotion I put on before bed. Thanks mom for sending that. I should probably think about putting up my mosquito net soon.

I could not get back to sleep though. It was 4:00 a.m. I heard this dripping sound in my kitchen. It was only one drip every 4 or 5 seconds and it was annoying the heck out of me. I had no clue what it was, but after investigating it, I find out it was watering dripping into a bucket. It rarely rains here, and last night it started to rain. But only softly. Anyways, the smell was amazing, but that sound I couldnt deal with! The bucket was not full enough so it wasnt water dripping into another bucket of water, it was water dripping onto plastic. So I just decided to put my ipod in and read myself to sleep.

What else is new...I saw my pig get castrated the other day. A vet comes to our house and asks if we need anything, and the next thing I know, he is asking me if I want to watch. I hesitantly say yes. He has the kit with him with all his meds and vet stuff and also a little girl. He says she is his nurse, even though she is only an 8 year old girl who doesnt go to school and wants to learn about animals so she tags along with him when he does jobs. Well the alarming part of this was, she was holding these needles for the vet and running around with them. I know this girl wants to learn, but goodness!

Well the vet first hog tied our chancho to the pole that it sleeps tied to in our backyard. The sound of a pig getting hog tied was horrible to hear! Goodness, it was worst than the actual castration. After he hog-tied it, he gave it one shot, slit open its put with a new razor, then did his thing. Afterwards, he squirted a ton of alcohol up in side the pigs butt and pushed it up in him. Omg, I felt so bad for that poor pig. He also spray painted its butt purple (at least that is what I think that stuff is). The vet said though that we couldnt eat the testicles because the pig was over 6 months old.

And for some reason it is bad to eat them if they are older than that. I also asked why he was castrating our pig and he said it was bad to sacrifice a pig unless it wasnt. Dont know why, but okay! My mom told me yesterday we were going to kill the pig today so we can eat em, I told to let me know when so I could watch.