Baby Photos

Here are some pics of the babies taken this afternoon - they're just three days old, and already are growing in their fur.

Little wrinkley though!

But definitely still tiny!

They've arrived!

Cocoa gave birth yesterday to 6 little naked bunnies - though unfortunately one of them died. Everything seems to have gone well, and the little ones are quite the little movers!

An Intro to the Rabbits

As I said previously, we've added rabbits to our farm to add the ability to keep ourselves in meat without outside input. We've started out with two does and a buck, and will see how we do with these and whether we need to add to our herd or not.


So, we have Buck - his color is called Castor, and he is just gorgeous. He's also an absolute sweetheart, and you can count on him coming to the door to say hi and loves being pet.



Our youngest doe is Lily, and she's a lilac color. She's become a grump, and likes to growl and grunt at you if you try to pet her. Don't worry, I pet her anyways - she doesn't need to think she can get away with that!


And, last, but certainly not least, is Lady Godiva, aka Cocoa. She's Lily's mom, and we got her bred already. She is due to have babies this weekend, so she got her nesting box today!

Busy as bees and Busy Bees!

Well, it rained all weekend, so we took advantage of being stuck in the house and worked on some projects. Got started on the builtin for the living room(no pictures of that yet, not enough progress to share) and worked on the kitchen, what a difference!
Here's the before shot...hideous isn't it? Up until Sunday, this is what it looked like, minus the pizza, and such on the counter, since this picture was taken before we closed on the house. We also replaced the stove after the infamous fireball incident.

So, on our last trip to Ohio to fetch stuff from our old place, we brought back some of the cabinets we had installed when we renovated the garage. We brought up four wall cabinets and a corner cabinet, in addition to some base cabinets for the living room built in. Two of the wall cabinets were added to either side of the microwave, resulting in this:

Much better don't you think?? We also added a 9" cabinet to the left of the fridge, and replaced the corner cabinet. The kitchen looks SO much better now, like it was unfinished before.

Busy Bees!!!

Well, our bees are just trucking! They arrive May 3rd, and this was one of the bars a week later! Amazing, isn't it?? There's a full bar before it too! It's really been neat having the bees, and knowing that they're our bees buzzing around the yard has just made me even more aware of how nature is at work.

And this is the same bar just five days later!! Can you believe the amount the got done? Granted, it's not full of honey yet, but they are just TRUCKIN' along, it's absolutely amazing. It's going to be just phenomenal come next year when we'll be harvesting honey from our own hive, and hopefully will be able to pay attention to what's blooming and label the bars so we can try honey from different flowers.

Spring is sprung....

And then some.

Yes, I know, I've been lax in my updates. I'm going to make a concerted effort to post more often, especially since things are really starting to ramp up into high gear here. So, here's a general overview of what's been going on, and then I'll try to get some detailed posts on each of the main aspects.

We're working on the garden - hoping to get seeds planted by next weekend, and we've tons of seeds that we started upstairs in the windows that'll be going in the ground in a couple of weeks.
Over the last month we put in a TON of trees on our three acres, both for lumber and for food. I need to get some photos taken as things come into leaf so I can post those.
We're going to be hatching our own chicks from eggs from our flock this year, and Mike's working on making an incubator to do that. We've added another aspect to our place to replace having to raise broiler chickens once a year - rabbits. We've a pair of does and a buck for breeding stock, and are expecting our first litter of babies the weekend of May 24th.

And, last but not least, we're entering the world of beekeeping. We got our bees last weekend, installed them in the hive that Mike built for them, and they're doing great!

So...there's a brief overview - as I said, I'll get some in depth posts going on each of those, and detail what we've done, are doing, and what we plan for the future.

Hope all's going well for everyone, and I'll post more soon!