Beautiful Weather, Wild Pig and a Little Hippo

It was beautiful weather today, but we had to work! Luckily it was still warm and sunny when we finished working.

After work we went to the store to get groceries for dinner and they had Wild Pig again.
So tempting........

At home there suddenly was a new addition to our household: this little hippo. He is very shy so we haven't found out his name yet or where he came from. Maybe my owner's OH knows more, so we'll ask him when he gets home.

Work and Strawberries

Today I helped out at the cateringservice again. Here I'm trying to get hold of some cleaning paper, but it is a huge roll of paper as you can see so it was difficult.

After work I got these strawberries as a reward for all my hard work.
They were delicious!

Pigs!

My owner got a new Cross stitch magazine last week and in it was this really cool pattern of a pig on a surfboard! She promised to try and find time to stitch it for me sometime, but first she has some other things she wants to stitch.

And I discovered another pig today! This fellow was in the corner of a drawing on a paper about academic schooling for graphic novelists and cartoonists. I wonder how I would look in a tie.

I made another blog!

After my previous posts about books I decided to start a second blog devoted to books and movies! So go to Pearls Cast Before A McPig to check it out!

Snail or Slug and a Giant Voodoo Doll!

There was a snail on our balcony today allthough it wasn't even raining.

Here's a close up of the snail.
It's a snail right? Or is it a slug? It's another one of those things that I always get confused. Here we call all snail-like critters 'slak'. We just put something in front of the word slak to make sure everyone knows what kind of 'slak' we're talking about: Huisjesslak (the kind like in the picture, means house snail/slug as it has it's house on it's back), naaktslak (naked slug/snail, the kind without a shell), waterslak (water snail/slug, the kind that you find in the water). Anyway: this is my favourite kind of 'slak'. I think they're very beautiful.

On to the really cool news of today:

When we were in town to get our shopping done we saw this giant voodoo doll!
It was in the shopwindow of the bookstore, because it's the month of the suspense books this month. All month they have a showcase on thrillers and other suspense books and you can get a discount on lots of them too. In the background you can see the book my owner's OH got for free yesterday too: you get it for free everytime you buy a book this month it turns out.

More Books

Nope: not a list of books featuring pigs, but two books my owner's OH recieved today.

He ordered the one on the right: Wet Moon volume 4 by Ross Campbell and he got a free book send along with it! Not sure what the free book is about, but I like the picture on the cover.

And the back cover of Wet Moon.

I think Ross Campbell is an amazing artist. He also made a book about zombies: The Abandoned, but unfortunately that book is out of print otherwise I'd get it right away.

Zombie books

I know I've skipped a few days lately, but what's a pig to do when his owner is doing boring stuff...

So that's why I decided to list some books for you today that have walking dead in them!

First offcourse: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame - Smith.

This book is basically the original story and text but with zombies and lots of fighting those zombies added to it. If you love the original story but have always thought that it lacked some zombies, this book is a must! I myself hope Grahame - Smith will zombiefy lots of other books too. If on the other hand you love the original story of Jane Austen and think it can't be perfected in any way as it already is perfect, steer clear of this book, you will not like it.

Next: I luv Halloween volume 2 by Keith Giffen and Benjamin Roman
this is a comic/manga that is beautifully drawn I think and it features lots of zombies and other undead creatures. It's about a town where for some reason there are lots of zombies and only a few normal living people. (Why this is so is probably explained in volume 1 but as I do not have it I can't tell you.) Coolest thing about this comic: there's a zombie kid who is dressed in a pig costume!
There's lots of violence and bloodshed in this comic so it might not be for everyone.

And last: Death: at Death's door by Jill Thompson.
Anyone familiar with Sandman will have seen Jill Thompson's work before as she has drawn a few Sandman stories. This comic is based on the Sandman story 'Season of Mists' and tells how Death with the help of Delirium and Despair tries to handle the fact that the dead are coming back from hell after Lucifer has closed it and handed the key to Dream. It's a really funny story and fans of Death should really try to get hold of this one. (Eve: If you haven't got this one allready, go get it, Delirium is brilliant!)

That's it for now. If myowner keeps doing boring stuff I might post a list of stories featuring pigs next.