Oh - THATS where the piglets are!

I'm working on the chores, and about lunch time I stop and go to close up the gate so I can go run some errands and eat lunch.  A sow and her piglets had been hanging out close to me while I worked, and as a matter of habit I looked for her, and counted her piglets, and came up 3 short. 

Our fences are good at keeping full sized pigs in, but piglets are a different matter.  They can fit through pretty small holes, but I don't worry about them too much because they mostly stick close to their mother and they don't cause any problems.  Kinda fun to watch them run around.  But where are the 3 missing piglets? 

 So I'm looking everywhere, and I see something odd on top of the pile of wood chips.  I can't quite make out... it's a piglet!  Ok.  (so click on the first picture, and you can see the piglets ears sticking up just a little to the right of center, at the top of the pile. 

 And I get closer, and sure enough, there's a piglet, snoozing on top of this 15' pile of wood chips.  In fact, all three missing piglets are napping up there. 

 They're taking advantage of the heat coming off the pile; quite a bit of heat, as a matter of fact.  They're napping in the warm updraft. 

So I stop, and think about it, and then go about my errands and lunch.  Enjoy your warm nap, piglets.