I think I will try this.....

GLOBAL BUCKETS

SATURDAY AFTERNOON POST

Here are pics of the new babies:



This is a great nest:



These are going in the freezer around April 14th:



Also I ordered Moringa seeds and plants which arrived today!




They are in shipping shock so I hope they pull through. Here in N TX I will have to work hard to get them to overwinter. I will have to heavily layer with rabbit manure and mulch and possible prune and cover them. They semi tropical but here is why I am planting them:

1. 7 times more Vitamin C than oranges
2. 4 times more Vitamin A than carrots
3. 3 times more Iron than spinach
4. 3 times more Potasium than bananas
5. All of your essential amino acids

And from what I have heard they taste wonderful. To both rabbits and people.

KITS!!!!!!!!

I GOT HOME TODAY READY TO TAKE OUT THE NEST BOX AND GET THE DOE READY TO CULL THIS WEEKEND AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW???

THE NEST BOX HAD A HUGE BALL OF FUR AND WHEN I PULLED IT BACK THERE WERE 6 PRETTY KITS INSIDE!!!

SHE BELIEVED ME WHEN I TOLD HER I WOULD EAT HER.

LAST CHANCE

Well I have a heat lamp under the nest box....


I have lined the box with borrowed fur.....


And she is interested.....


Now if only she can figure out how to deposit the little pink wigglers in the right place.


MORNING UPDATE: This is so frustrating. One dead baby on the wire this morning. And between 5:15 am and 6 am she was furiously building a nest. Now she is just laying there and I am afraid to go to work because If I am here I can at least put them on a heating pad until she is done and then put them in the box and cover them with hay. aaarrrrggghhhh

SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got out of the truck at 8:15pm. The moon is full. The breeze is warm. I filled a nest box full of pine shavings and straw and put it in the cage with my rabbit named A. Last chance for her. Babies are due on Sunday.

Then I heard it. The frogs were awake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOW NOT TO HOMESTEAD

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET GREEDY

COYOTE STEALTH

There is just something freaky about the howl of a coyote 20 feet from the porch were your giant alert dog lays.

This took us both off guard. He roared off the porch and I roared out of my recliner.

So they are beginning to test his sight and hearing limits. This could be bad.

REMEMBER THE SEARS CHRISTMAS CATALOG

YES THE BIG ONE THAT YOU SPENT HOURS CIRCLING THINGS THAT YOU WANTED WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE.....


WELL THIS IS KIND OF LIKE THAT WITH ME....

BAD TIMING 2

Ya gotta love the timing of bad things;

1. As I was getting ready for work, doing my normal daily routine, I found a lump in my breast.

2. Worked 7 am to 9 pm today....got home almost at 10pm only to find that a hot water line had frozen and broke. Who knows how long my water ran but the hot water tank has not shut off since I came home; It doesn't have an off switch and I don't know which breaker is for the tank; I might try experimenting in a bit if it doesnt turn off soon.

fun stuff

BAD TIMING

Well I came home late as usual last night and there was a horse in my front yard. I didn't even have the energy to figure out where it came from. I filled a bucket with rabbit food and led her/him out the front gate and shut the gate.

Fed animals and then went inside to find that I could smell propane!!!

The emergency line said to check the level on the tank...guess what? EMPTY! And as I type this the wind has just switched around from the north for our next winter blast. It is supposed to be 19 degrees tonight...with 4-6 inches of snow.

My bedroom has it's own heater though so I slept fine but now all I can do it hope that the provider will be able to fill my tank today.

UPDATE: yep it is officially icing now. pellets are hitting my window as I type
UPDATE 2: ok propane guy came to fill the tank and Bull tried to eat him. Anyway the heat is on at the tune of $566!

SO TIRED

66 HOUR WORK WEEK LAST WEEK AND THE FIRST DAY OF THIS WEEK I WORKED FROM 6:30 AM THROUGH 8:30 PM. I REALIZED I SAT AT MY DESK FROM 1:30 PM TO 8:30 PM AND NEVER GOT UP! YES I KNOW HOW VERY BAD THAT IS. ANYWAY I WANTED TO WARN YOU THAT POSTS WILL BE LIGHT THIS WEEK.

WHY DO I DO IT YOU ASK?

WELL LAST NIGHT AT 8PM A WOMAN BEGAN TO CRY WHEN I TOLD HER THAT I WOULD PAY FOR HER AND HER CHILDREN TO GO TO A HOTEL BECAUSE HER PIPES HAD FROZEN....THAT'S WHY.

ONE LAST MAN STANDING

PLEASE NOTE THE MISSING NOSE: CARROTS ARE BULLS FAVORITE FOOD

12 INCHES IN TEXAS

Holy cow! It was beautiful but not fun to drive in to get my grand boys. And We in the South know that when a deep freeze in January comes, the water lines freeze and blow; So since I have customers who need my help you will only get one picture tonight because I have to keep working

THERE'S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT SNOW

Yep it happened last night. Snow. I hear you guys...yea yea so? Well I know for the folks in the North East and the Missouri area the feeling for snow wore off about a month ago but there's just something about walking out of your house before daylight and seeing the whole world white.

Bull walked up to me with his tail gently waving back and forth...this is his waiting mode...is she in a good mood...is she going to work....does she have time to play?

I looked out over the field and so did he. I smiled...he growled. Then an eerie high pitched whine started out beyond the fence that developed into the howl of one lone coyote. He had reason to growl. This weather would make hunting hard and coyotes are very lazy.

We walked on to the rabbit pens. I filled all of the water bowls (switched to bowls since the bottles were freezing in an hour and a baby bunny got his little tiny tongue stuck to the frozen metal ball). Then I walked out to the chicken house were the two Lion Head rabbits were patiently waiting for their water.

If you have never owned a turkey or you have never sat on the ground during a spring turkey hunt, you probably don't know the sounds that a tom turkey makes. Deep in their guts they make a pop and thrum sound that is so deep you feel it in your bones. They don't always gobble...seems that they make this noise all night long as well as at the end of a gobble.

Bull growled and growled as I finished up watering. It's still snowing. He stood with his head pointed north at high alert, his hackles up, his tail stiff and straight up, protecting his family.....you could also feel his deep growl to your bones.

I would imagine that lone coyote felt it as well.

WINTER LIFE

COOL GIVEAWAY

THE FOLKS AT FOOD STORAGE AND SURVIVAL ARE HAVING A GREAT GIVE AWAY. THIS IS A GREAT BLOG ON SURVIVAL SKILLS. HOPE YOU GO GIVE THEM A LOOK.

WINTER STORM

I know the poor folks in the North East roll their eyes when we in Texas get a winter storm but HOLY COW the wind sounds like a freight train outside. It is times like this that I KNOW how blessed I am to have a warm home.

But I will be working from home because I don't drive on ice. Looking at the winter storm heading toward the NE, the front of that storm is almost 2000 miles long.

Please pray for those people if you are a praying person. I talk to these people all day long and it is not a good situation.