Rambling

     Well I've had a few things going on and off my mind the last day or two.  I've decided fully that I'm going to move a couple of my Dutch brood does out and leave some extra empty room for some torts.  I'm moving Zoey my black doe and probably a couple of my blue does.  Leo's actually looking really, really good!  Leo will be going to KY Cup.  I've gotten my list of bunnies ready for KY Cup narrowed down to Penelope, Natalie, Connie, Zoey, Rachel, Dalton, and Leo- so it's not much.  Raf and Marcie are both opening in coat now and I doubt they'll be ready in 2 weeks for a show! 
     Horses are doing as good as can be expected.  They're shedding like CRAZY.  Phoenix is still thin and neither one will even remotely TOUCH the hay.  At least Phoenix is still putting on weight, I think the Fat Cat is doing a phenomenal job on everything with him.  I'm hoping with some extra time tomorrow I'll be able to seed the fields- at least some of it.  I'll get some more seed soon, I just have to wait and see how everything pans out paycheck wise. 
     Right now Ayden's on my bed sleeping and I need to take some Benadryl and go to sleep myself.  It's late and tomorrow dad and Allen are going to finish the bathroom-THANKFULLY- I can't wait to take a shower in my own bathroom.  I just keep thinking of the Clorox commercial "For Life's Bleachable Moments" since my bathroom will need a good bleach down from where everything backed up thanks to the screwdriver. 
     Bunnies are doing good, I had out Legacy's two babies- such little cuties.  I had Marie and Pip out and they're with a blue doe baby from the Becky x Leo litter that's probably going to end up staying around and I'll be moving her momma I might have to use her to see how Leo and Raf's bloodlines cross with each other. 
     I do have plenty of plans to spend this coming week off on the crappy days job searching.  I do plan to have a few Resumes and applications out before I return back to Nestle.  I do want to get into a more scientific or agricultural job.  It'll be hard to find a job that pays as well as Nestle but it's out there, I know it is.  That and I might start putting together a portfolio as well, first have to get some permissions from folks.  
     Definitely bed time, I really need some sleep.  Got up early to meet Jessie, Michal came to pick up the others while I was out meeting Jessie.  Then home to get TONS of stuff done by the time people got here.  Jess was the first around 4:30, Allen and Sheri about 9ish . . . I think.  I am wore out.  My brain is failing to function. 

Long belated update

     Well plenty has been going on and a few more things have popped up and a few more things just going in every direction. 
     First thing will be a bathroom update.  I started using the bathroom, literally on Thursday last week.  Well for no reason that we could tell the toilet, tub and sink all backed up on Saturday.  So thankfully we were going to be out and about almost all afternoon.  First we went to Golden Corral, then to Ladies Night at the Range. And Since I left my headlights on, I just stayed the night at A.Lisa's and we jumped the truck this morning so I could come home to feed.  Found out what was wrong with the bathroom when I came home- Jackass (James Beckley the contractor) dropped a screwdriver down the toilet hole and it got stuck at the 'T'  to the main drain pipe- blocking the toilet, tub and sink from draining.  So dad's spent his birthday-today- cutting piping out from under the house, I helped him take the toilet out again.  We'll have to re-set the toilet again, but it wasn't even attached to the floor before- hence why it was rocking.  Perfect.  I'll be without a bathroom for a few more days. 
     Pictures will come later.  I'll edit this with pictures.
     Second was the Horsie update:  Kylie and I went out for a ride on Friday- and we didn't push the two at all.  Phoenix kept wanting ot either take off running or just graze.  So we just rode easily out back and let them graze for a while, then Kylie showed me how to pull mane's and I pulled Heidi's so it's even.  She looks really really good now.  They haven't even wanted to touch the hay, so I will have to find some better hay here shortly.

     We looked at boarding/lesson barns and the 3rd one we visited was the best of the bunch!  I'm thinking of moving Heidi there this coming winter- it's Tamarack Farm if you feel like looking it up!  Gorgeous barn, it's the closest to me plus the indoor will be the biggest draw for me, I'll be able to ride in the winter and work Heidi. 
     Last update Bunnies!  We had a show on Saturday- Didn't do the best at all, lost a TON of points on fur condition.  Understandably, the Nutrena is doing better than the Purina did but I have a bag of the PenPals to give a try to and I've heard so much about the PenPals I'm VERY hopeful that it can bring the quality that I need to coat condition.  I've contacted someone that has some super nice tort dutch and asked about possibly getting a Trio put together from her. I told her what my problem was and asked if the trio could all be good light and bright.  That was my biggest problem was smutty torts.   Off Dutch here, but I finally got a litter of Holland Lops!  Legacy gave me two, they are a solid tort like it's daddy, Gabriel, and a broken tort like momma!  I'll try to get some new pictures of them before I add pictures this evening.  

 

     Sadly Kylie didn't get the best spring break as it's been off and on snowing the past 3 days.  Not been very good, of coarse now that she's going home, we're finally warming back up closer to where it should have been!
     And a few pictures from Ladies Night at the Range!  Me and the Walther PPK (.380 caliber) are VERY good friends!

 

And a pair of pictures of the Ponies from this afternoon!

Rabbit show update

Well I've paired mine down enough to know exactly what's going and what's not. I know for SURE that these guys are going for show:
Blacks:  Connie, Tigger, Bethany-with Tigger and Bethany available for sale
Blues: Raf, Marcie
Steels: Natalie, Penelope
Registering: Connie, Raf, Marcie, Natalie
Traveling for sale are: the Chin jr's, 2 blue jr bucks, 2 blue jr does, Shiloh, Anna.  Originally I was going to enter the 4 blue jrs in the show, along with Shiloh but if I don't enter them, then with just the 7 going, I can afford to enter both shows.
Coming home with me- CiCi, Jamie, Marie, Jeanie- the last of my torts for a while! 

Drowning

Drowning and sorry, it's not by the Backstreet Boys! 

And that is where I cross normally too!  I tried keeping to the higher points of it this morning when I crossed- my pants got soaked!  It's higher than my boots and that wasn't even the deepest part of the water way.  The creek out back is a solid foot higher than normal.  We aren't even going to attempt Howard's Mill on the way to work. 

 

As for a bunny update so far so good.  All my guys seem to be holding steady even with the nasty weather coming and going.  I'm still contemplating where to trim and where to add to make a solid barn. 

 

Here's the Backstreet Boy's song Drowning:

Don't pretend you're sorry
I know you're not
You know you got the power
To make me weak inside
Girl you leave me breathless
But it's okay 'cause
You are my survival
Now hear me say
I can't imagine life
Without your love
Even forever don't seem
Like long enough

'Cause everytime I breathe
I take you in
And my heart beats again
Baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning in your love
Everytime I try to rise above
I'm swept away by love
Baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning in your love

Maybe I'm a drifter
Maybe not
'Cause I have known the safety
Of floating freely
In your arms
I don't need another lifeline
It's not for me
'Cause only you can save me
Oh can't you see
I can't imagine life
Without your love
And even forever don't seem
Like long enough

'Cause everytime I breathe
I take you in
And my heart beats again
Baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning in your love
Everytime I try to rise above
I'm swept away by love
Baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning in your love

Go on and pull me under
Cover me with dreams, yeah
Love me mouth to mouth now
You know I can't resist
'Cause you're the air
That I breathe

'Cause everytime I breathe
I take you in
And my heart beats again
Baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning in your love
Everytime I try to rise above
I'm swept away by love
And baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning your love

Baby I can't help it
Keep me drowning
In your love
I keep drowning
In your love
Baby I can't help it
Can't help it no, no

'Cause everytime I breathe
I take you in
And my heart beats again
Baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning in your love
Everytime I try to rise above
I'm swept away by love
Baby I can't help it
You keep me
Drowning in your love

*~ See, not quite the same thing!~*

     Anyway where I am at a mental state is still yet to be determined.  I'm up and down.  I've got two work days to get the other room cleared out and the bathroom and my bedroom put back together, and then get that other room cleaned up so Kylie can sleep in there. *shakes head* well Shit happens It'll get done eventually.  I'm crossing my fingers for a couple short nights at work this week.  make just barely my 10 hours and get home and start working on it. 



Getting ready for the nasty storm!

     Well I put the horses on the other side of the road, they were refusing to eat the Montgomery hay at all and I'm out of the clover mix.  I don't want to risk either ponies bellys on my pasture, so I put them out across the road.  I figured it was safer to let them forage for grass until I can find some more GOOD quality hay that they'll eat!

 

     Well I heard that we have our first BIG storm rolling in, protentially severe Thunderstorms/ Tornado's etc.  So I went down to Morehead today since I know their Walmart has the tag making machine. 

My name, phone number and their names are on their tags, Phoenix's even says "Meds Needed"

     While I hated getting that big of a tag for Phoenix, I wasn't going to give him a little pink heart either.   When I'm back up in NY over the summer I'll get a couple better ones made at Walkers for these guys, get some on their bridles and all of their halters.  This way if I actually do make the full move to board Heidi this coming winter, her stuff will have tags on it- every halter(I think I'm at 3 for her), every bridle(that'd be two of them!) and every lead rope-Also two of them!  It'll be a LOT of tags but it'll be worth it in the long run.
     No bunny update as of right now- Bunny show coming this weekend!!!  Still working on the show bound list.  Connie, Raf, Natalie, Marcie, Leo, 5 blue Juniors, possibly Bethany, Tigger and Zoey as well.  I bring that many though, I'll probably only entering one show only! 

Seriously strange

     Been in a seriously odd mental state as of lately.  It all seemed to start when I put my stuffed animals back on my bed.  I fear it has something to do with them, and after talking to Marie, I think it might, I'm going to try kicking them off the bed tonight and see where it goes.  I mean I actually thought about keeping Heidi as a pasture ornament, giving up riding, giving up raising my rabbits-EVERYTHING and starting fresh with something else!  I sat out in the pasture for half an hour after walking the fence-checking for breaks in it- and just marveled at the two searching for any of the green grass that has come up.  I'll start dragging my feild hopefully tomorrow, I've got spots to seed in the Roark's feild tomorrow as well as clean out the last corner of the barn, clean rabbit trays. 
     They're still working on the bathroom, and the contractor lost his help- he never showed- so now he's going to work all weekend to make sure the bathroom is finished.  I've got more stuff to do tomorrow than is going to be physically possible but I've gotta try!  So much other stuff to do too that this isn't even funny anymore.  I do really want to give up.  Maybe I'll pick up a lotto ticket just for the heck of it and see what I can do.  Even if I get enough to pay off my student loans I'd be happy. 
     I'm not going to even have Phoenix's saddle together and ready when Kylie comes, yet another bill has popped up that's going to keep me from ordering the gullet kit.  I guess that's okay as he's no where near ready enough to be ridden yet anyway.  I'll start working him on the ground to build back up some of his muscle.  It'll take me a couple more paychecks to order the gullet kit.  Unless I get the few rabbits actually sold, that I need to get sold, at the show.  Hopefully they do sell, frees up some much needed Jr cages.  I've got a total of 4 or 5 tort does coming in so hopefully that will set me on torts for a while, Colby's sister, Colby's daughter, 2 Colby granddaughters, and an unrelated doe.  I think my torts will be good for a little while!! 
     Anyway, time for work, I hope it goes by fast.  Too much to do and less time to do it in, in reality. 

Tempers lost, Horses Loved

     Well as much as I hate to post this up, I lost my temper with quite a few of the rabbits this morning.  Definently time to cut them down!!  I hadn't meant to lose my temper I just did.  Some of them it's thoroughly my fault, Legacy's so damn spoiled that I used to let her get away with anything, and when I asked her to behave she decided she didn't want to because she never had to before.  Well We had a little 'discussion'  and she got taught some manners.  Hopefully she retains them.  I got a second Holland Lop doe, and in the future I'll be keeping both holland does and a mate for each one.  I know that Gabriel is on his way out so I am already replacing him with a broken sable point and they be bred probably just for pet babies.  The new doe, who I'm still trying to get a name to stick to, is a blue tort Vienna marked baby out of two blue-eyed whites.  She'll be a mate for Speedle to see if we can throw BEW's.
     I love my ponies to death, they've got to be less spoiled.  They won't touch the montgomery hay at all now so they have to go back across the road to hunt for grass for the next couple of days until I can get the last load of the clover hay that he's got in for them.  They are soo spoiled, but I do swear just the two days Phoenix was on the pasture it helped him tremendously start to put weight back on.  SO if they're over there on Sunday- I've got so much to do- get hay get everything!- Get tags for their halters with severe storms rolling in on Monday I want tags on their halters, I'll have to drag and seed the feild around them(assuming it's not raining that is! Seeding yes, dragging no)  Then I'll have to start looking around for the best price for more seed.  I still have to drag and seed mine as well. 
     Well they're here, they've torn my bathroom mostly apart now so they should be able to start putting it back together(fixign the floor first) tomorrow.  Here's hoping, now for 2 mroe nights of work. 

Cold blustery Day!

     Well I started with brushing Heidi and Phoenix both out!!  Then I put Phoenix out with Heidi since he's been pacing the fence something awful and he seems to be feeling a LOT better. 
     It was flurrying off and on all day, so while it was still warmer for the day I left their blankets off to allow the wind to blow more dirt out of their fur. 

     Well other than being a super cold day and rather unproductive, I was able to do a lot of thinking and planning and plotting of a few things.  I know I'm going to start slowly switching Phoenix over to blue, the green is so hard to find in the green grass if he loses his halter and I've got plenty of blue things as well as green.   I know he's only got limited number of months left but I might as well make them as enjoyable as possible for him! 
     And a couple quick pictures of the two most promising babies out of Becky's litter.  Thankfully they are both females!

     While I am going to be cutting my herd down, by significant numbers as I just don't find the enjoyment in them, actually quite a few of them I don't much care about.  There's some that I love deeply and still wouldn't be able to ever get rid of but then there's some that it's like eh, I don't ever call them by their names or anything so that's when it's time to start weaning them down! 

Long road

     It's been a long few days, with Phoenix being sick and everything else since Friday, I know he's feeling better as of yesterday.  Mom told me he came trotting for his dinner so he must be feeling better!  Finally, but I have drawn up a game plan for how the summer/fall is going to play out.  It'll be one of two ways.  He'll either start to fade again, and we'll put him down then, or he'll stay strong for the summer and he'll be put down in the end of summer, begining of fall area.   Either way I won't make any descions about either moving Heidi to boarding or getting another horse until later.  I'll be putting $20 or so dollars aside a week starting in April and with that I'll either be getting hay and another horse or using it to board Heidi.  Alot of my answers will be based on Kylie too.  if she moves down with Amber, then I'll 99% chance likeliness move Heidi to board where she does, so Kylie and I can ride together all winter.  The other option is saving up all summer and into fall and pick up a third horse right before I put Phoenix down, and then keep new horse and Heidi all winter here at home. I have the good hay source, I told him I'd keep his number and later summer I'd be calling/emailing to get my hay order in for the winter. 
So in making a list for Pros and Cons for boarding Heidi next fall
Pro- Having an indoor area to ride in, not having to deal with going out in the rain/snow/sleet to feed her, not having to stack as much hay for the winter, having someone to ride with(Kylie and Amber),  shoudl be able to take lessons with Heidi and possibly able to do a 'musical horse' with Kylie at times if she wanted
Con- She wouldn't be home, someone else in charge of her care(I'm used to doing my own), having to travel to go to her, Changing farriers(I LOVE the work Micheal does), Not having a lot of ride time, giving up a lot more on the rabbits. 

Anyway a lot more thought still has to go into it, but so far the Pro's are outweighing the Con's. 

     As for the rabbits I'm still debating, I'm bringing in some torts while slimming down my steels.  Selectively crossing out a few and then moving the parents on.  Grace and Leo are are the top of my list right now.  I don't like the coats that Grace throws and just not thrilled with Leo in general.  He had the bloodline that I needed, as did Grace so cross them together and pull a buck baby.  Move the parents. Well I'll be putting more thought into it as the days go on.  We'll see, though with what is already planned for the barn(Dalton and Jeanie to replace Dalton) will already happen, now to pair down the blues a little for more manageable numbers!

Very sleepy

Well I have to say, I'm very very tired now.  Late night at work, coupled with Pheonix being down all afternoon and I couldn't leave work to come home and help him.  I clocked out at 1:30 am, got home about 2 am, walked around the dark feild with a flashlight and gave Phoenix some stuff to get him up and moving.  He's still standing up when I went out and looked, but no garuntees completely yet.  I think the hay is to blame here.  There's something odd or off with that hay.  It doesn't seem to bother Heidi, or my younger rabbits but boy it seems to do something with my older rabbits and with Pheonix.  The sheep at Aunt Lisa's just plum didn't like it either.   I really don't know, so I guess I'll be spending my Sunday going and getting hay, something that is better quality than Montgomery's hay.  I'm super tired, but at least Phoenix is back up.  Tomorrow He'll get his breakfast and go out into the other feild to eat some grass while I go get hay. 

Now I'm to a point of crossing my fingers that the rest of everything can go smoothly.  I've got my weight back up over 250 which I've been trying to avoid and now I'm going to have to figure out how to get it back down.  One thing at a time, one thing at a time.

They should be redoing my bathroom starting next Thursday, so on my day off Wednesday I have to clear out the bathroom, plus the bookshelves outside the bathroom, then I have to clear out the bookshelf in my room that's against the bathroom wall because he needs to get into the water lines in the wall.  Uhhhggggg.  What a pain in my butt.  Of coarse I'm hoping someone helps me move all this stuff, cause that's a lot of stuff!  If not, dad won't have a computer for the few days they are doing this, cause its all going into that room!  Weither he likes it or not.  I'm just hoping he doesn't take the full 3 days like he thinks.  Get it done and over with!

Mental thoughts

     Well my mental thought process is back again raging war with me.  I've but plenty plenty of thought into the rabbits and even with Colby making a come back, 3 days now he's eaten a full 5 oz scoop and has been waiting for his food each morning, I'm still bringing his daughter, 2 granddaughters and his sister back into the barn. My other little tort buck is going to replace himself later this summer with the other doe I have coming in.  This other doe is completely unrelated to what I have now.  She'll be bred to Dalton first at her coming of age litter, and a buck will be kept in Dalton's place, being also unrelated to Colby she'll be held onto to produce tort litters with Colby too.
     Hopefully soon, one day, I'll have a mental complete break down of everything and keep and get everything in order.
     On other news, my bathroom will be getting redone next week, before everyone starts getting here.  Kylie will be here the week after and then the weekend after Allen, Jess and Aunt Sheri will be here. Where all these people are going to sleep I have no idea. I'm kind of hoping that Allen and Sheri will contemplate a hotel room for the couple of nights, this way Ayden, Jess and myself have our two rooms here.  Jess can have the cot, sleeping bag or the air matress, Ayden loves sleeping on my bed and I love it when he sleeps on my bed with me. 
     I took the horses blankets off for hopefully the last time this morning.  I'm going to order a blanketwash next weekend when I order the gullet kit for Phoenix's saddle.   The gullet kit should get here just in time for Kylie to get here too.

Grossness, mental and physical

     Well the rain from yesterday turned into snow last night, 2 more inches of snow . . . UHG.  I want it to get nice outside, I want to work with Heidi. 
     I've started to make a mental list of everything I want to do and a few things that have been tossed up in my mind.  I hit a road block with the rabbits and then when I came to the horses.  What do I want to do?  Where do I see myself in a few years?  I really don't know!  That's what I am going to ponder these next few days.  Am I going to continue with the rabbits?  Am I going to cut them back?  If I cut them back, who makes the cut and who doesn't?  Do I really want to continue to break Heidi out?  Do I want to send her to someone?  If I move her to boarding what do I do about Pheonix?  Can I afford to board two?  Will he make the trip and the readjustment again?  He's so buddy-buddy with Heidi I have a hard time taking her out of the feild without him.  Do I have the strength to do what's right for him if I do decide. 
     Another thing I want to do at some point this spring is pick up a handgun- even if I only target shoot with it.  I really enjoyed the target shooting that I did the other night at Ladies Night(see my main blog).  Do I really want to pick up another hobby.  I want to get back to some of my older hobbies but alas, I don't see the timing to do it.  My long weekends off, I'm usually too tired to do anything artsy and I miss it, the short couple days off I don't have the time.  I need to find another job that pays just as well as this one but has better hours.  I fear I won't find that.  I know it might mean moving- if I have to move, will I have the room to bring the bunnies?  Be able to afford to have Heidi boarded?  Nothing right now makes sense to me so I'm in a mental funk and I'll have to keep digging to get out of it. A baisc sort and compile, sort and compile.  With any luck I'll be in a corner doing something all by myself tonight so I don't have to really pay attention as much and can think about things.   I know I have to at least last through April at Nestle so I can get their contributions to my 401K but that's all about now.   I will attempt to get some pictures in the snow today but no garuntees with the camera-that or take the big camera out with me!  Pictures will be in tomorrow's update.  Though I have come to a little bit of a conclusion, I'm not letting my dutch expand much beyond the few torts I have coming in.  I do know Jeanie will be bred to Dalton and then Dalton will move on and I'll keep a son of his in his place and still be able to keep Jeanie because of Colby.  So by fall I should have a solid working line there and then hold it steady there, of coarse this is all speculation because you never know what the future holds!! 

FunFunFun!!

Well it's been so gross outside that everything is mud, so riding has been out of the question right about now.  But I did take a couple pictures this morning because it hadn't started raining just yet.

Heidi's getting chunky, I'm contemplating moving her to boarding and finding a pasture pal for Pheonix or even moving the two to a Pasture board situation so that I can keep working Heidi despite the mud(it'd be a place with an indoor arena).  Now I have a saddle for each one, they'll be fitted to each horse- Heidi's is a Wintec Wide AP, I think it's a 500, not a 250, Phoenix's is just a Wintec AP 250.

And as for the rabbits, I finally finished up the last tier of buck cages.

Dalton, Colby and Leo got this round of them.  These are the last of the buck cages I'm hoping, I'm moving to all the slightly bigger cages because it will Limit the number of rabbits that I can have in that barn.   I'm tossing around the idea of getting one more stack of them, and using them for the pair of Hollands and one more dutch buck.  I'm trying to mentally determine where I want to go with them, with myself and my whole current situation in general.  I just don't know anymore.  I'm still thinking of getting out of bunnies in general.  With as much as I love them, I enjoy working with them, at times I'd just rather work with Heidi.  Rainy days like today I love snuggling with them since I don't have a regular barn and can't have Heidi in a stall where I can dry her and groom her at least.
*sigh* Sadly I won't get that without boarding at this point, you see the mud in the pictures above.  Someday, someday . . . . Anyway.  Here's a couple pictures from the back of the barn facing the front of the sides of rabbit cages! 

The holland bucks, Gabriel and Speedle, are on top next to the carriers with Becky(with kits) and Natalie under neath them, and the weaning cages below that.  Then first tier of buck cages with Eliot, Raf and Syd in them.  A 30 x 30 with Connie, Penelope and Anna  and then the last 'new' buck cages with Dalton, Colby and Leo.

This side still needs work.  The 30 x 30 is the blue teir(eventually)  Grace, Marcie and then Zoey.  The 2 30 x 36's on top will eventually make a 3 teir of 30 x 36, but right now has some weanlings in it and then Rachel-bun is up there, the second row is Shiloh, Bethany, Tigger and a Chin baby, bottom is Legacy, Kylie-bun and the Mini Rex buck.  Those two bottom rows are the cages I'm trying to get rid of.  I'm not sure if I want to do one more 3 tier 30 x 30, and a 3 tier 30 x 36 and then a 24 x 24 tier or another 30 x 30 tier.   Just don't know.  I'll see when I get that far I guess!  Thats still a couple of months away.

Tattoos and New Cages

     Well I started today out, other than very cold, putting together cage #1 which I had picked up at the Mount Sterling Tractor Supply.  I had gotten cages from there two years ago, and they were good quality cages, these new ones are no where near the quality that the old ones were. 

     Leonardo got the bottom cage, Colby got the second one, which dad had brought home from Winchester(I know the TSC's only keep one of the kits in store).  Hopefully tomorrow when Aunt Lisa comes by to drop Bitsey off to be bred and picks me up to go with her to Southern States in Morehead, we're going to stop at the TSC in Morehead and get the 3rd(and last) for this set of stacking cages. 
     While we are at Southern States I'm going to ask them if they still carry cages as well, they carry the same type of cages, size ranges and everything, but the brand is different so I can get a quick run down for when I finish replacing cages.  I am not happy with the quality of the cages this time around, not at all.
     And of coarse since I had my new Tattoo pen ordered and while it was still at my aunts(Forgot to change my shipping address for PayPal) I re-arranged cages and found the first tattoo pen had been dragged under the cages.  Murphy is alive and well, but at least I have a person that wants the other tattoo pen, I really like the new one. 
     I used the new tattoo pen today and tattooed 10 rabbits for their first ever tattoo and 3 had to have re-do's over their clamp tattoo's.   

Penelope's was a redo, her clamp didn't stick at all, Legacy's was too spotty so her's was redone, and Bethany's was also spotty.  Penelope's was the last one done and I think it's easy to tell that her's was nicely done.

Crappy drive

     Well I ended up driving to Alexandria for the Nutrena.  Turns out the PenPals dealer has to order it all in so as this bout of Nutrena runs out I'll call them again and pull in a delivery.  Tomorrow I'll be doing quite a bit of stuff again- about the only real thing to do while it's nasty outside.  I'll be going to TSC to get as many of my new buck cages as possible(3 of the 24 x 24" stackables), then taking a quick run to my aunts to get my tattoo pen and get my babies tattooed and my cages set up.  Then if the weather is still crappy, I have at least one breyer I can now paint.  I picked up a Native Dancer/John Henry model to paint as Phoenix.  He's the last  one I really need to paint that I know Breyer has a model for. Draft and draft cross mares I'll have to have custom made! 
     Anyway, on our drive up today, I finally got a spot where I had no one behind me and I could get a picture of the doorway through the stone wall.  I think it looks amusing!  Makes me think hobbit holes!

I know it's full sized, as the wall is probably close to 10 feet high at this point but still, it's cute as heck! 

And I took one of Marcie's daughters out and one of Grace's daughters out and put them side by side.  For some odd reason Grace's full litter has a more cotton like fur texture and Marcie's have nice slick fur like the rest of my dutch so after tattooing tomorrow I'm going to drag the hose into the barn and hose the weaning cages out.  Hopefully that'll help their coats improve or something else is off.  I'll figure it out!  Rachel and Dalton are both eating more and more so hopefully they're just hitting a late growth spurt and will make full size soon.  Marcie's kids are almost a week older than Grace's so that's the size difference.

Here's Marcie and Grace's daughter:

Marcie's daughter has a much shinier coat . . . It's very very weird.

Here's one of Becky's babies:

 

A good one of Juliet just for the heck of it!

 

And a few of the ponies just for some fun, these were taken a couple days ago.