Once the pig had found that he could actually use his snout to lift the stuff that I had been carting up, he had a jolly old time, as he now made openings for him to escape out of the yard. I felt that I was running in circles, as between all my charges, I had no time for anything else.
I thought about Scotland, where I worked very hard, but when I was finished, I rested in peace, something that was not possible at this stage.
I didn't know what else to do, as I had collected just about everything that looked promising to block the pig from escaping. And in the meantime I had posse after posse of villagers bringing Mobi back, mostly with a rope that almost strangled him around his neck.
It had stopped raining, but as it was now mid winter,it was bitterly cold, with thick frost covering the area every morning. The fact that I didn't have a winter for the past eleven years did nothing to help me cope with the cold, and with all the running around outside I was half frozen most of the time.
Earlier I had boiled some rice and veggies for Kevin Bacon, and as I walked out to feed him that as a snack, I found him happilly rolling around in a nice muddy puddle, and when he saw me he gave an excited grunt, and stormed at me, almost knocking my legs from under me! I was terrified, as I was quite far from my gate, and if the food wasn't still very hot, I would have given it to him there and then, but it had to be mixed with some meal, and that would have cooled it.
But Kevin couldn't wait, and tried to knock the bowl from my hands, and then he bared his yellow teeth, and tried to bite my leg! That was when I just poured the hot food over his snout, and while he was putting up one heck of a racket, I legged it to my gate. I was now really scared, as I had to go out again to feed the chickens and the cats and dogs, and with that man-eater on the loose, I just didn't know how to manage.
But I knew I had to try and lure the pig back to his sty, and the moment I saw him go into Jan's yard, I closed the gate, and started seriously trying to find stuff to make the pig pen inescapable.It had to be very heavy as this pig just lifted the iron safety door with his snout as if it was a goose down feather!