Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Rabbit pics...
Here are the pictures of the bunnies and their new house.
First is the picture of the rabbit house that Mark and Jeff finished by using duck hunting lights on their hats after dark Sunday night.
Here's Charlie Chaplin. He's such a friendly little guy!
Next here is Violet. I gave her her name this morning. She's just like a little shy violet...trying to not be seen in the back of her cage. She likes to be pet...she's just a shy little girl.
And, last, but by no means least here's our second little girl. So far she still needs a name. I'm sure one will come to us soon.
Everyone is so glad to have the new animals on the place...I wonder what we can see at First Monday in December! :)
Blessings,
Leigh-Ann |
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Monday, October 13, 2008 Trade days weekend!
Well, we headed off to Trade Days Saturday morning not really planning on coming home with a lot of anything. Well, the best laid plans and all that!!
There are now 3 rabbits living here and Jeff found an AWESOME deal on his cockatiels. He found an older lady selling them for an incredible price...he was able to get a pair for 1/3 the cost of one at the pet store.
After we came home with all of the new friends (it was getting to hot to leave them in the car. We agreed to head back yesterday morning so that everyone could really look around...not just in the animal aisle) we headed up to the city to get the cockatiel cage that we agreed to get him after he could afford his cockatiels!! We also ran by TSC to get rabbit stuff.
Yesterday afternoon we headed back to Lowe's and picked up supplies for Mark and Jeff to build the rabbit house we designed on the fly! We used a corner by the clothesline that was a pain to mow. I'll have to take a picture of the new house and those that now live there. Jeff and I moved the rabbits out of the sunporch this morning.
The boy rabbit is named "Charlie Chaplin" because of the mustache he has. I still need to come up with names for the 2 ladies.
It seems like things never slow down around here. In fact, I don't think we'd know what to do if they did!!
Blessings,
Leigh-Ann |
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Saturday, August 30, 2008 The things we've been up to...
Whew...as usual things have seemed non-stop around our place. Our visiting horse went home at about dinner time the day he was here. He's living next door where we didn't think they had any horses living anymore. She came home from work and saw Twister out in our field and called his owner to come and get him. He's been caught a couple more times sneaking out of the fence.
We've enjoyed our start with Mystery of History. Mellie has a few hens and chicks growing in a little greenhouse made from a canning jar. Amanda wants to root a spider plant baby and then close up her greenhouse. We're really enjoying what we've done so far as far as history goes. Of course I hope to get so that it's on a little more regular basis. I'm trying to get it in 3 days a week with our science on at least 2 other days. More often than not Saturday is a school day for us as well. Especially when Daddy is working.
Earlier this week while watching the hummingbirds by our feeders outside the sunporch I decided that we should dive into the Handbook of Nature Study. What an awesome book. There's an entry for just about anything you can imagine. Sooo, this week, the kids have drawn hummingbirds and colored them with colored pencils. I found Mellie a mask to color which led her to the fairy craft book that she found at the library and made hummingbird wings and a tail from freezer paper, wire hangers, and duct tape. Does that girl have a great imagination or what?!
I also found directions for making an origami hummingbird...needless to say, we gave up on the first set of directions and searched for an easier one. After a late night run for wrapping paper to try (the tracing paper and doodle paper just weren't quite right) Jeff and I (Amanda got sent off to bed at about midnight) finally figured out where we had made a wrong turn so to speak at about 3 this morning. Determined to finish the silly thing before calling it a day, I took another 1/2 an hour and finished it up so that it could be sitting on Mellie's glasses case waiting for her this morning. (She's the only one who got a fairly early start to the day seeing as she headed to bed at a reasonable time...)
So, here's a look at our hummingbirds...(I was able to help the girls make theirs just a bit ago this morning.)
Mellie also had to make a flower for hers.
Yesterday, we transplanted some basil into a pot in the sunporch and we planted some tomato seeds to see if we can get them to grow out here too. I was able to get a creeping fig when Mark and I ran to Lowe's for patio blocks yesterday. He finished the longer privacy fence around it yesterday too. It's great!!! Now to see in the end of the sunporch on the shared driveway end you have to head into the woods!!! It's great not feeling like we're a sideshow at the circus now!! It's also allowed me to have the blinds open all the time and all the plants I've started to put in here are loving it!!! Eventually we'll have that mini-greenhouse I've hoped for out here.
Well, this is what our week has been like. Oh yeah, we also had our neighbors over for bbq pork Thursday. The kids ended up playing UNO and I think Blayche is planning on coming over on Monday when she's off school for Labor Day for a Monopoly-thon.
I've got to go braid hair so someone can get started with her other bookwork. Have a great weekend!!
Blessings,
Leigh-Ann |
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 "Momma, there's a .....
HORSE in the backyard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
This is who showed up at our house this morning. We have no idea where he came from. No one on our road recognizes or owns him. Sooo, for now he's inside the fence until we can find out where he belongs.
Jeff asked me "building an ark" Momma? He's funny isn't he?!?
Oh well, as you can see, things are just an ordinary Tuesday morning here.
Blessings,
Leigh-Ann |
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Sunday, August 10, 2008 WE CAUGHT HIM!!!!!
Oh my goodness, I could hardly believe it when I went out to the car to put something away in it and I saw the peacock again! This time he was right up against the fence in the back yard. I don't know how he snuck by the dogs next door but he did! Jeff came out with a slice of bread and the girls were at the back door. I managed to put the dog kennel (I should call it just a kennel I guess because the dogs don't use it anymore) right along the fence without spooking him.
He walked right into the kennel!!
Mark got home pretty much right after this. He and I took Jeff with us in the truck and went to the feed store to buy him a bigger house. We found a 10 x 10 chain link kennel for him. Here's the gang putting it together...
And, here's Joseph in his new digs! It's so very cool to look out the sunporch window and be able to watch him. When he thinks no one is looking he seems very relaxed.
Well, this is what we've been up to this weekend! I hope you have had as pleasing a weekend!
Blessings,
Leigh-Ann |
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