Update - back from a relaxing vacation in Rhode Island...settled back into the work routine as summer comes to an end and teachers are back... hubby and I are working through some things - it seems the house we live in has been a bone of contention for us both - we got along and could manuever easily in the rented house near the beach as it was laid out better than our current place on the hill... so I said sell it! He found a new place with more acreage and a barn (ah, so he is thinking horses and rabbits come along as well as they are family) and he is thinking about what we have to do to make it happen. Lots of stuff to do like painting and repairs that have been sitting waiting to be done but it looks like we have a game plan, together. After 21 years, I am glad we are working through it. Even if it doesn't work, I am OK with that as well... sometimes when life gives you lemons, it is OK to make lemonade or even better, a lemon meringue pie.
Have to get new cages for the three boys Radar, Splash and Stinger - they are getting big and need to grow into their ears...these are Juno and Axel's kits. No doubt about it, these are all bucks! Splash has just a splash of color - Radar has a Junoesque "up ear" and Stinger has a pointy marking on his butt like a stinger (although it has softened as he grew).
Juliette figured out if she removed her hopper feeder, she could squeeze out of the opening to freedom... I found her chatting with Axel through the wire of his cage. Scooped Miss Juliette back up and put her away and secured her hopper feeder.
Roxanne, Jared and Remy are the binky trio - they have all sorts of methods of "rippin' rabbit" and make me laugh. Calliope and Grace are well, too - although Grace would like a bigger cage similar to what Roxanne and the boys have... she tried to leap out when I was cleaning today. No more nips from her - she tried to bite my half-cast and was not happy her teeth found a hard surface rather than the one that makes me yelp and bleed. She is coming up for nose rubs but does not yet have the patience that Roxanne has.
I have to look to see when our show dates are - trying to coordinate that with a sailboat race in Rhode Island I need to go to for the research on a book I am writing...this project has been full of good occurrences and unhappiness at the same time but I will be glad when it is done as it is a historically significant project for New England and yachting history.
After almost a month of healing, I jumped on Dipper bareback and she was a lady, even when her daughter Weatherly was naughty (squealing, leaping in place and taking off to try to get Dipper riled up - luckily for me it did not work).
Weatherly's injury from the springtime has healed- I feel a little bump where the tendon was injured but to look at it, you'd never know she hurt herself.
Mercy and Freedom (the minis) are sporting winter coats already - the forecast is for a cold and snowy winter so I think they are getting ready. Nefertiti the Shetland is starting her winter coat now, too.
Juno is molting right now so she is getting some time under the slicker brush to help her shed out.
Nothing like animals to refocus one's direction in life.
