Day 230:<\/p>\n
While wandering a nearby island to the north, I came across another pig. And this time I’m sure, this is an honest-to-cod actual pig, with curly tail and oinking and the whole bit.<\/p>\n
Which only strengthens my belief, by the way, that this whole planetoid is nothing but a failed and abandoned terraforming site because I have pigs but no butterflies and only an idiot would try to terraform a planet with no pollinators.<\/p>\n
Even I, a girl whose family hails from the sticks of Old Earth, know you need pollinators to survive.<\/p>\n
Anyway, now I’m trying to figure out how I can lure the pig into my fenced-in field. Because pigs are smart and big and good eating. Probably easier to harness a pig on this danged rock than a horse.<\/p>\n
Oh and I got a few loads of sand in and I’m freezing cold, but the furnace is roasting the glass and rapidly drying my soaked clothes, so that’s a good end to the day. Having roast fish and carrot sliders for dinner tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Day 230: While wandering a nearby island to the north, I came across another pig. And this time I’m sure, this is an honest-to-cod actual pig, with curly tail and oinking and the whole bit. Which only strengthens my belief, by the way, that this whole planetoid is nothing but a failed and abandoned terraforming … <\/p>\n