If I stayed up late, late, this would have come to my attention sooner, but …

Craig Ferguson needs a PIG® Leak Diverter.

Then he’ll be ready the next time there’s a hole in his ceiling and it’s pouring outside during taping. No need to bring out the rain gear nor fear kicking the bucket. The Leak Diverter will channel the leak away to a drain or container out of sight, and the audience will never even know that the Late Late Show set isn’t as weather-tight as Letterman’s.

So Craig—have your people call our people! Our order line is 1-800-HOT-HOGS® (468-4647). Toll-free from California and less glamorous states as well.

New Pigger Krista Rehm has gained a new level of affection for PIG® Leak Diverters. It happened in Atlanta.

Krista, a project manager for international marketing projects, is one of New Pig’s many SuperMoms. She recently took a trip to Florida with her sons Tyson (age 3) and Trevor (age 2). Work kept her husband at home.

The return trip involved a connection at Atlanta International. Wikipedia says it’s the world’s busiest airport, and Krista tells me that it’s humongous.

“This flight was on April 2,” Krista says. “I hadn’t wanted to fly on April 1, but this flight was like a carryover from April 1.”

Meaning it was hellacious.

“Our flight from Pensacola was supposed to take 40 minutes, but the weather was so bad underneath us, with lightning strikes and rain—the worse flight I’ve ever been on—that we had to keep circling.

“We were supposed to have an hour-and-a-half to make the next flight, but we used up most of that in the sky, so when we finally hit the airport, I’m just booking it, weaving in and out of people to get to my gate.”

While wearing a backback, carrying three bags and pushing a double stroller, mind you.

“And what do I see but a maintenance guy—you know, in an airport uniform—going along as fast as I was. He was carrying a bucket that says “Caution.” It was our Leak Diverter Bucket Kit! The PIG® logo is real big on there, and I was happy to see it. A little piece of home, ya know? It gave me a lift when I needed it!”

It was still pouring rain at the airport, so it’s safe to say that the Leak Diverter Kit was being rushed into action to catch a leak and divert it away to help keep the floor dry. Heck, if Krista had looked around (not that she had time), she may have seen other PIG® Leak Diverters in use. She had walked into the very situation described in catalogs that she had helped produce. She had a big-time need right then for safe floors with good traction, and somewhere in that airport, a PIG® Leak Diverter was helping provide it.

So did Krista make her flight?

“It was four hours late!” She laughs. “At one point, Trevor had three lollipops going—he just kept unwrapping them because he didn’t like the flavors—and a lady says ‘Three lollipops? Isn’t that kind of a lot?’ I said, “We’ve been here for three-and-a-half hours. I don’t care if he has ten lollipops!”

Welcome home, Krista.

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See the entire collection here. Powerful photos.

Below is a detail from one shot related to that major topic of The Pig Blog, leak and spill control … and details from two more of the stunning images.

Coming soon: Laser etching on particular PIG® products, including many of our PIG® DRAINBLOCKER® Drain Covers.

When you guarantee products forever like we do, it only makes sense to find the best way to make the labeling last as long as the product does. With our newest PIG® DRAINBLOCKER® Drain Covers—tougher than ever—that’s a looooooooooong time.

This is a nice way to end the week. We learned yesterday that our new PIG® Poly Spill Containment Pallet won a Plant Engineering Product of the Year Award (Bronze).

Like all of our poly containment pallets, this product is designed to catch leaks, drips and spills from containers of liquids and aid compliance with SPCC and secondary containment regulations.

This Pallet breaks new ground in these ways:

• Only 10″ high—makes it easier to load and unload drums and reach drum tops
• Takes minimal space (51″ x 51″) but still holds up to 4 full drums (6000 lb. UDL capacity)
• Nestable design allows stacked storing and cuts the cost of bulk shipping

Not that we keep track or anything, but this makes 19 Plant Engineering Product of the Year Awards for New Pig in our 23 years, and 41 product awards in all.

If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times.

“You never rode a mechanical bull!”

“Believe me, I’ve ridden a mechanical bull,” I say.

This happened recently at a party, during one of those ice-breakers when everyone writes a surprising fact about themselves on a slip of paper, then the slips are drawn, and everyone tries to guess who goes with which fact.

“Bull!” someone said (of course) when I was matched with my fact, and everyone laughed.

“Remember to back me up on this,” I had said to my husband when we filled out our slips of paper.

“What if I don’t?”

“Today could become difficult for you.”

“Is that so?”

And at the crucial moment … he did back me up.

“Realize now,” I told everyone, “I was only on the thing for about a second, but it still counts.”

You may wonder why I’m telling this story here, to which I’ll say:

• Have you ever seen a mechanical bull squirt hydraulic fluid?
• Been covered in the stuff as you’re trying to repair it?
• Had to find a way to clean all that up?

We had a call yesterday from a mechanical bull repairman who runs into this all the time but had just heard of PIG® Absorbents.

“Got something that can help me?”

“You came to the right place,” our rep, Peggy, said and then helped him order some PIG® Absorbent Mat and then told me the story—and then of course, I had to tell her mine …

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Please note: You might want to go back now and read aloud the first word of each paragraph in this post. Treat each bulleted sentence as its own paragraph.

Queen’s University of Ontario has good news and bad news about using detergents to clean up spills of diesel oil on water.

The good news is that it reduces potential impact of the oil on surface-dwelling animals (picture a sea gull).

The bad news is that the detergents, in dispersing oil into water, make the spill 100 times more toxic to young fish, which could be devastating to fisheries (not to mention that sea gull, if he’s looking for a fish to eat).

So we’re glad to offer non-chemical options for removing spills of oil on water, including:

PIG® White Oil-Only Mat Pads & Rolls
PIG® Brown Oil-Only Mat Pads & Rolls
PIG® Oil-Only Socks, Booms, & Sweeps
PIG® Non-Absorbent Booms (to keep spills from spreading)
PIG® Oil-Only Pillows, Pans & Bags
PIG® Oil-Only Loose Absorbents

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Yuck. Roof leaks dumped salty, rusty water onto classic cars at a recent major exhibition.

I feel bad for everyone involved:

• Car owners who spend countless hours and dollars restoring and detailing their cars
• Show sponsors and managers who had to cope with an ugly situation: disgruntled exhibitors, attendees, bad word-of-mouth …
• Maintenance staff at the aging facility, who apparently face challenging limits
• Local officials who come from different perspectives on what steps to take

But I also need to put on my company hat and say: PIG® Leak Diverters might come in really handy here. They’re specifically designed to catch and divert water from roof leaks to drains or out-of-the-way collection units. They’re not tarps that will overflow (as seems to have happened here); they don’t let water pool. They’re guaranteed to keep leaking liquids away from floors, fixtures, products and classic cars.

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