Rafe’s been doing a temperature charting project for school this week. When we checked our thermometer at 7:30 this morning it said 20 below. 20 BELOW! Oy. Another town in our area recorded 29 below. 29 BELOW! Oy.
Despite that nasty, nasty temperature reading we haven’t lost anymore pigs. Yet. So I’m calling those that remain “The Undead”.
I think they appreciate my humor. That one in the middle is definitely chuckling.
So I’ve been saving up my pennies again, and today a pick-me-up in the form of a new camera lens arrived in the mail. I went with a Sigma 55-200mm f/4-5.6 lens. Significantly less expensive than the Canon lens, but more than adequate for my amateur skills.
Which left some $$ for the other item I ordered, a Canon 430EX Speedlite Flash
I took these porker photos with it at noon today and I’m loving it already.
As for the undead, we’re taking orders now for March and April butchering dates. Put your order in before we lose anymore 🙂
1 year ago:
Congrats on the off-camera flash. You will LOVE it! I have the 430 EX and the 580 EX and love each of them. Bounce those puppies off the ceiling (where there is one), and you will have the best lighting! Oh, and I’m with you on the non-Canon lenses. I have Tamron and Sigma and they seem to be as excellent as the Canon lenses. Once you get into the L series lenses, you might as well take out a second mortgage. Your pig feeder is not only functional but it also makes for great pictures as well!
And the price is???
I just love that middle picture! The pig is so laughing! It’s so funny!I want to raise pigs so bad! I really hope to try my hand at it this spring. I asked a long time ago if I could email you and I promise I will someday!
I really wish I could find some large feeders like that. Not many people raise pigs around here so the only ones I have found have been up north. Probably not looking in the right places though. Beautiful pictures.
Lynsey – I haven’t tried out the speedlite yet (but will tomorrow night at a birthday party). But I’m love love loving the lens!patti – I’m sorry! Soon, I promise. If you see smoke coming from our direction, it’s rolling out my ears!ss – Thanks! I thought that pig looked cute, laughing like that 🙂 kramer – they aren’t easy to find up here, either. We got one off my dad, and they have them on farm auctions sometimes. The others we have our junkman friend found for us when he was cleaning old farm groves and such.