Fond memories of when you were a child. Feeding our pigs was fun.

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They loved all of our extra garden produce. I loved that I didn't have to can more than 52 jars of anything. A week of pickling cucumbers into pickles was enough for me. A couple days of freezing corn was enough for me. I loved feeding them squash and pumpkins the best. They'd raise their heads up, then slam them into the pumpkins and the guts would fly straight up and all over. Pumpkin slime everywhere. They also loved apples, carrots, anything. Omnivores are generally not picky eaters. My Dad had never raised them before. He saw an advertisement in the newspaper for a free shed. Just take it away. It had 4 walls, a roof, but no floor. So we set up the shed and he bought the 3 little pigs. He put them in the shed. The next day, no pigs. Just a shed with a hole in the ground that went under the back of the shed and out to the field. So we spent the day catching the pigs and my Dad spent the day pouring a concrete floor. He bought some cages until the floor dried. I do not understand why they grease pigs at fairs. I can tell you, they get slippery enough in mud and when they don't want to be caught on their own. We ran, grabbed, got a pig, the little brat would slip through our fingers. Glad we only had three pigs to catch and it was just a hobbie farm. 20 or more pigs and we'd still be catching them. I know what you're thinking, just put food out. They're omnivores, they eat anything. Food, to them, is everywhere. They were happy with the grass in the field and the shrubs in the woods. They also didn't know us, we had just gotten them. So what is one of your fondest childhood memories?