Read or scroll through both language versions, if you wish to see all of the photos. Lea o desplácese por ambas versiones lingüísticas si desea ver todas las fotos. My new promise, how could i forget::: I will get back into a schedule with writing and photography, and I will publish something once a week, at least.
There's a lot to update you on, so I'll try to be concise 
We have a bunch of new friends/extended family now:
First came the chickens, actually. My buddy brought home some egg-laying hens and one of them wanted to hatch eggs. She was "broody." But there was no rooster. So I bought a bunch of chicks for her and she took to them. I didn't realize that incubator hatched-industrial chicks would lack the normal instinct to even stay under the mommy-lady to stay warm and thus alive. Thankfully, 10 of 13 survived and caught on.
Then my friends brought home a kitty for me. He's super sweet and affectionate. I asked him what he would like to be called and he said, "Rrrrádu." So Rádu, it is.
The dogs are learning that they must not chase him. For now he mostly stays up on the second floor where is my bedroom. But as the space has no door , nor even a front wall, he comes down as he likes. 
Interestingly, Lovey-dog, who I was most concerned about hurting the kitten, was the first one to befriend him. Rádu came right up to him at the top of the staircase and kisses his face and Lovey was in love. He's a sucker for kisses.
Two days ago my buddy went to see his son's newborn piglets and one of them appeared to be dead. She'd been rolled over and/or stepped on by the mother and was unresponsive. But when they took her out of the pen to "toss" her, she made a little squeak. As two had already died during the birth, he didn't want his son to suffer with trying to cure her, as it really seemed that she would likely not make it. 
Well, not only is she making it, she's recovering well and rapidly. She's getting fat and running around even, chasing the chicks. It's chilly still at night and sometimes during the day too. And having no heating pad or even a hot water bottle... She is sleeping in my bed with me for now. She needs to drink warm milk every two hours. At first I was giving her straight cow's milk; a neighbor said that is the way to do it. But I've been researching and learned that it's better to dilute it half with water and add an egg yolk per 8 ounces of that mixture, to make it closer to the nutrition of sow's milk. I don't think there is any chance I could buy "piglet replacement formula" even if I could find it for sale here... So I'm doing my best. She's incredible. Very loving and affectionate and fun. But as she wants to suckle for comfort, besides the milk, she ends up biting me a lot. The first night, i didn't sleep at all. The second night, I slept about five hours. And last night better still. And It's worth it. 
We were going to call her "Pancake," as her mother had tried to make a pancake out of her...then came the jokes that, because I'm "spoiling" her by keeping her up in my arms, she would grow to be a 600 kilogram pig who wants to sit on my lap...."and that's how Meli died..." And as one friend pointed out, "Pancake is not a good-luck name." So the nena and I came up with "Chichu." Pigs have a real language. It's consistent. The most notable and distinct sound that she makes is when she is happy to see somebody, or as it turns out, also to hear a familiar voice on a voice message. Last night, she crawled out from under the covers when she heard the voice of a friend whom she was held by, cuddled and given lots of kissies from over the weekend. And she was making this sound that she also makes when she wakes up and first sees me, with a big smile on her face, she says "HAHAHAHAHAHAH!" It's beyond beautiful. Wish me luck and send your prayers for health and well-being. She is doing quite well, has a lot of energy and she's fattening up...but she needs prayers still..honestly, the straight cow's milk seems to have made her constipated, so I've been adding a tiny bit of honey and/ oil to her mixture and she just had a warm bath to help her poo. But she hasn't pooed and I'm concerned. Tonight around 8 p.m. she will be a full four days old. 
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I write what you read here and I make the fotos and videos with a redmi note 13 pro. DeepL is my preferred traductor for help with translating my writing from spanish to english and/or english to spanish. I do both as a way to improve my Spanish when I can.
Lots of love. thanks for journeying with me
*******************En Español:
Mi nueva promesa, cómo podría olvidarla::: Volveré a retomar mi rutina de escritura y fotografía, y publicaré algo al menos una vez a la semana.
Hay muchas cosas que contaros, así que intentaré ser conciso. 
Ahora tenemos un montón de nuevos amigos/familia extendida.
En realidad, primero llegaron las gallinas. Mi amigo trajo a casa algunas gallinas ponedoras y una de ellas quería sentarse clueca. Pero no había gallo. Así que le compré unos cuantos de pollitos y ella los aceptó. No me di cuenta de que los pollitos incubados en incubadoras industriales carecerían del instinto normal de permanecer bajo la mamá para mantenerse calientes y, por lo tanto, vivos. Afortunadamente, 10 de los 13 sobrevivieron y se adaptaron. Entonces mis amigos me trajeron un gatito a casa. Es súper dulce y cariñoso. Le pregunté cómo le gustaría que le llamaran y me dijo: «Rrrrádu». Así que Rádu, así se llama.
Los perros están aprendiendo que no deben perseguirle. Por ahora se queda principalmente en la segunda planta, donde está mi dormitorio. Pero como el espacio no tiene puerta, ni siquiera una pared frontal, baja cuando le apetece. 
Curiosamente, Lovey-dog, que era el que más me preocupaba que pudiera hacer daño al gatito, fue el primero en hacerse amigo de él. Rádu se le acercó en lo alto de la escalera y le besó la cara, y Lovey se enamoró. Le encantan los besos.
Hace unos días, mi amigo fue a ver los lechones recién nacidos de su hijo y una de ellos parecía estar muerta. La madre lo había aplastado y/o pisoteado y no respondía.
Pero cuando la sacaron del corral para «tirarla», emitió un pequeño chillido. Dos ya lo habían hecho durante el parto, y él no quería que su hijo sufriera intentando curarla, ya que parecía que realmente no iba a sobrevivir.
Bueno, no solo lo está marchando, sino que se está recuperando bien y rápidamente. Está engordando e incluso correteando, persiguiendo a los pollitos. Todavía hace frío por la noche y a veces también durante el día. Y como no tiene almohadilla térmica ni botella de agua caliente... Por ahora duerme conmigo en mi cama. Necesita beber leche caliente cada dos horas. Al principio le daba leche de vaca sin diluir. Pero he estado investigando y he aprendido que es mejor diluirla a partes iguales con agua y añadir una yema de huevo por cada 250 ml de esa mezcla, para que se acerque más a la nutrición de la leche de cerda. No creo que haya ninguna posibilidad de que pueda comprar «fórmula de sustitución para lechones», aunque la encontrara a la venta aquí... Así que estoy haciendo todo lo posible. Ella es increíble. Muy linda, cariñosa y divertida. Pero como quiere mamar para sentirse cómoda, además de tomar leche, termina mordiéndome mucho. La primera noche no dormí nada. La segunda noche dormí unas cinco horas. Anoche un poco mas tambien. Vale la pena.
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