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An annual collection of photos and written memories
 
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Ridin’ the Party Pig
HU XIAO JING
Natural Swimmer
Mesmerized by the G-Force!
Bearly covered on Valentine’s Day
Spicy pig feet soup to celebrate National Pig Day - March 1st
Baby’s 1st 12-pack!
Finally meeting Gramma!
A mug of gold! Happy 1st St. Patrick’s Day
Baby’s 1st sled!
Baby’s 1st deduction!
100 Day Birthday in Chicago’s China town.
Learning to fly!
Rock pickin at Hills Lake.
The P.I.G. House Porch Enclosure
Eric stands before the doors he’s ordered to remove by the city.
Painting commissioned in exchange for rent depicting the battle with the city.
The “snout” is reluctantly removed from the front of the P.I.G. House.
Sadly, the enclosure is removed (for now) but the upper level remains!
Corn makes a great toy!
Lobster-boy!
Learning compassion for children with boxes for hands ... a valuable lesson.
We had to fight the hospital to keep Rayteng’s placenta ... we won!
Happy Mother’s Day!
We plant a Honey crisp Apple Tree with RT’s placenta on Mother’s Day.
The G-Force is strong with this one!
Laying in the grass for the 1st time.
1st day of Spring ... ever!
Mayflower 1
Mayflower 2
Mayflower 3
Holes in his socks, just like Daddy!
What a ham ... definitely born in the year of the Pig.
Everything’s looking rosy.
Enough already ... (my parents are pretty goofy).
Learning about animals from Pink Floyd
Swing music!
Peoria is a swingin’ town.
Our hotel room has a jacuzzi!
Call room service, have ‘em send up some breast milk!
Are you sure about this?
Ghost hunting in Springdale Cemetery on Friday the 13th in Peoria, Il.
Another bat captured at Hills Lake is released in a wetland restoration area.
Try that again and you’ll be sorry.
Stingy with his kisses ...
1st train ride!
On our way to the Chicago Fireworks!
The Iola Car show.
Mom’s 1973 Mustang.
Jane’s cousin visits from China.
Going Green!
Solar Panels going up an the P.I.G. House.
The P.I.G. House Johnson Suite takes shape!
The P.I.G. House kitchen gets stranger every year.
Another eye injury.
Learning to love the water!
Summer’s almost over ...
Eric fights with the neighbor over the spraying of herbicide near his garden!
The protest hung over our landlord’s garage to make a point.
Retired my old van after 200,000 miles. This HHR runs on alcohol.
Another coat of “mud” on the Deerland Sweat-Lodge.
Eric’s been busy in the wine cellar, keeping the bats from taking over.
A lot of bottling (and a bit of bottle emptying) this year, next is the aging.
It takes a lot of work to heat with wood ... beats joining a health club!
We saw lots of deer this season, missed several shots, but not this one
Hopefully RT is a better deer hunter than his Dad ...
Rayteng and Eric ride along in the Ponsse Machine as the trees fall!
Processing honey from a lost bee hive: Colony Collapse Disorder a mystery?
Processing honey into Mead wine.
Progress has been made on the “Blue-Moon” Shitter
The “sweat-Lodge” is nearing completion.
Snow-shoe to the bon-fire.
The Year of the Rat is OVER!
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