I can’t stay long, I have seven pigs to paint the most unbelievably great ‘Gypsy Rose’ color (which looks a lot like pepto bismol, in the best possible way). Dominic and I are contestants in the Platt Memorial Library‘s Kiss the Pig competition (and since I’m also on the Board of Trustees for the library, I am the pig-painter and facebook-page-maker)

Kiss the Pig you ask? Only in a rural town does this come up as a fundraising idea, but here is the basic premise. There are seven contestants and the one whose ballot box has the most money in it at noon on February 19 (the end of unofficial ‘love your library’ week here in Shoreham) will kiss the pig at the ceremony at the gazebo. The Hescock’s have promised to have Runty the pig scrubbed up nicely for the event.

Ballot boxes will be located around town: here at the Inn, at the library, the school, the Halfway House and the National Bank of Orwell.

Vote Early and Vote Often! This election can be bought!

All proceeds will go to support the Platt Memorial Library.

Gotta run, pigs are about to be delivered – look for a bright pink pig somewhere near you!