My Heart's on Fire for Elvira

[Chrisdoc]

Haha, I can imagine little Elvira with mud everywhere and paw marks all over your kitchen floor, I bet she was a real mess but I bet the hole she dug is massive, when she does something she does it big.

I am also going on a healthy eating spree starting tomorrow now all my visitors will go. I always do better when I´m on my own as I can really control what I eat and cut down on the snacks and drink. So I´ll let you know how I get on.

The buns will miss my mom as she´s been their craisin bearer for the last few days, back to taking them from me.

Houdini nipped me this morning. Well, I did stick my hand in his cage when I was feeding him so I should have known better. It was only a little nip but I did laugh.

 

[whitelop]

So I don't know whats going on with Ellie, she's eating SO much. OMG. I give her her half a cup a day and then big handfuls of hay several times a day and she's eating all of it!
My chickens are eating a lot too and so is my son. Is everyone going through a growth spurt? haha. My chickens are eating several pounds of feed a day. I'm pretty much out of feed and I think I might have to go to TSC tonight because I haven't gotten the call from my feed store to make a feed order. I went from having 3 bags of feed, one with 20 lbs, one with 40 lbs and one with 50lbs to having a bucket with 3 lbs of feed left! Thats enough for today! haha.

Does anyone have moments where they just want to throw all their dishes out? Seriously? I walked into my kitchen this morning and my sink is mysteriously filled with dishes. I'm so over it. haha. I wash them all the time and I'm just DONE with the dishes!

Day 3 of my cleanse, today is fruit and veggies day. I would eat some, but AJ beat me to my plate of apples and has eaten most of them! haha. He's so crazy.
I don't get any meat until like Friday, I just need some protein. I was planting my garden (FINALLY) yesterday and had to fill the wheel barrow full of dirt and then push it up the yard and into the front. OMG it was SO hard because 1 the wheel was almost flat because of the load and 2 I've had no protein in 2 days and its taking a toll. haha. I was telling my hub that it was really hard and he was like, "well you've been eating fruits and veggies for 2 days and you're not in top form." haha.
But anyway, my garden looks pretty good. Six strawberry plants, one hot pepper, two tomatoes, and two squash and then eight green beans that I haven't planted yet, I have to make a trellis for them.

And for some reason, my phone won't send texts. I tried to text my mom last night and it was still trying to send like 4 minutes ago. Jeez, its making me insane.
And now I'm done. My head hurts! haha.

 

[HolyHandGrenade]

Veggies do still have protein http://www.3fatchicks.com/top-8-vegetables-high-in-protein/

I want to see Elvira in her hole! Crazy bunny!

 

[whitelop]

Thanks Missy!
I've been eating a lot of those veggies on that list. I think that maybe I'm missing the animal protein my body usually gets. I think the animal protein makes you feel full where the plant protein doesn't. I don't know though. I know when looking at chicken feed, I look for animal protein because the chickens need it more than just plant protein, especially when they aren't free ranging.

OMG I've become that person. I can relate anything and everything to my animals. Dear god, what has become of me?!

I'm about to put Ellie outside, I'll take some pictures!

 

[Chrisdoc]

Well done Morgan for sticking with it, your body will get used to it and you may even get to like it...I don´t eat that much meat but still need to eat more fruit...I´m like you, I prefer veggies.

My phone´s been playing up as well. It freaked out and I had to turn it off and when I turned it on again, nearly all my photos have gone to cyberspace...good job I download them everyday so I´ll have most of them but it´s so annoying....wtf have they gone to ssd:

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

Good luck with your diet. Everything seems to be going well. I bet you can't wait for meat day, I like meat. I don't eat much either like Chris. I eat some maybe once every week or two. I like fruit, but I don't think I would like to eat fruit all day long, I would want meat day to come quickly.

I can't wait to see Elvira in her hole. She is such a crazy bunny!

 

[whitelop]

This is the best picture I could get of her, with her muddy feets and dirty face.

I just thought this one was cute!

She was trying to get out of the hole. But her whole body fits inside of it.

And this is the hole, its pretty deep. haha.

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

Haha, that first picture of her is too funny! She is so muddy! And wow, that hole is HUGE! I wonder if she will dig it even farther. She is such a crazy funny bunny!

 

[lyndym]

Ellie is just so cute! I still can't believe how much she's grown. I wonder if she'll keep tunneling.

Glad the cleanse is going well! I might try it once the semester is over and I'm not running around so much. I think veggies are just more substantial than fruits, so they're probably curbing your appetite a little more. Just tell yourself that, maybe your tummy will feel fuller! I do like fruit, but a whole day on just fruit? Fruits are basically just water, I feel like I'd be hungry all day, too!

I love the picture of the outdoor shower you posted. I miss being outdoors. Obviously I leave my apartment and go to school and stuff every day, but it's so urban and nasty here, hahaha. I go camping with a group of friends every summer, and it's the best. Last summer we went to Havasupai, Grand Canyon. It was our second time going. It's so beautiful down there with water falls and everything! Very very hot, though. This summer we're going to Zion National Park in Utah!

Okay you all are inspiring me. I've been eating pretty well, (except for a chocolate bar last night!), but the exercising has slipped the past few days, so I'm going to go do it NOW!

 

[PaGal]

Morgan...Ha! Ellie is so cute and looks kind of innocent. She's not fooling me though!

Good luck with the cleanse. I used to work out and loved it. I would start again if I could ever get the hubby to hang the heavy bag. I don't need to lose weight and just couldn't do anything like the cleanse. I just don't have the energy to hassle with or worry about what I will eat. I do stay in shape with all the work. We haven't started the garden yet. The neighbor ran through it with his tractor but I'm waiting a little longer to plant. Although I do have potatoes I need to get into the ground.

I hear the horrible cicadias are supposed to come out full force this year. They should help feed your giant chickens and they're free!

 

[whitelop]

I think they're coming out of the ground at my house. All my flower beds and all through my yard, it looks like its been aerated. I feed the larvae to the chickens all the time, when I dig them up. I've dug up like 100 already, from digging in my beds.
I actually just made the chickens a goulash of stuff, I put some hard boiled eggs mixed with watermelon chunks, cantaloupe chunks, left over pork tenderloin, ham sandwich meat, oyster shells, tomatoes and cilantro. They really seemed to like it, which is good because I'm totally out of chicken feed right now. I might have to give them some rabbit pellets! But they liked the stuff I made, which is good and when the hub gets home I might go outside and sit with them and let them range for a bit.

Ellie's hole is bigger. She's super territorial of her pen and she's making me insane. She's been out for most of the day and thats where she'll stay. I know it probably sounds cruel, but she can't be in the kitchen until I figure out the proper way to bunny proof. She likes going out a lot and its really over cast and cool today, so its perfect rabbit weather!

 

[Katielovesleo3]

^ I agree with Denise! She looks all innocent and sweet but we KNOW we know just how sneaky and naughty she can be! >=) naughty little Ellie! I love that hole! It looks great and I bet she gets a relief out of it too!
I want to start a garden. After hearing all about yours and everyone else's, then I saw my dads tiny garden. I was like, yep I'm going to have a garden.

 

[Katielovesleo3]

When's her spay date again?0

 

[whitelop]

Sometime in May, I haven't made an appointment yet. I'm going to get blood work done I think, then I'll get the actual spay done.

I just really hope that the spay will help her terrible behavior!

I'll take a picture of my garden, its not huge or spectacular or anything. I think the plants stayed in their little biodegradable pots for too long and there is a little yellowing of the tomato leaves, hopefully that will clear up with them being in the ground.

 

[Chrisdoc]

Great photos of Miss Ellie. She´s dug a very large hole which I´m sure will get bigger if she gets another chance. I suppose she´s drawing on her wild side, that´s what she´d do if she was outside all the time, building her little burrow. I love that dirty nose and those dirty little paws...bet she does too.

would love to see your garden, I admire anyone who can make a garden look half nice. I so have not got green fingers so NEVER leave me in charge of a garden. A client of mine has asked me to buy a bouganvilla plant....hey, I´m going to have to google it to see what it looks like before I go to the garden centre.

 

[JBun]

At least Ellie's taking her hormonal frustrations out on her hole in the yard, instead of your house I love her muddy paws. Dakota really loves to dig in the dirt too, and has made some pretty good holes. The best one was when I was staying with my brothers family. Dakota and Flopsy were in a big room in the old barn, and Dakota had tunnelled under the big wood floor beams, that were just placed right over dirt floors. I'm glad she decided to come out on her own, cause I never would have been able to reach her.

So far my garden consists of parsley, cilantro, and carrot greens, all coming back up from last year. I LOVE plants that come back every year, all on their own, and all I have to do is water them and watch them grow. I don't know if I'll ever get around to planting the seeds I bought. Of course, it's all for the bunnies anyways.

Well, both boys are doing better today. Toby has been doing better than Riley. He's eating a little better, is more alert and active. Riley hasn't been eating a whole lot. I've been giving green leaf lettuce, cause that's pretty much all he would eat. I also have some dried willow leaves that he would eat a few of. I think they both finally munched on a few pellets this afternoon, and Riley finally pooped, after a whole day. Toby was already pooping yesterday. I gave them some metacam, but I don't think they are in pain. I think the not eating is from the nausea of the anesthesia. It's just taken longer for the effects to wear off for Riley. They still aren't eating a 100% normal, especially Riley, but it's much better. My suggestion for when Ellie has her spay, have all that emergency stuff ready just in case you need it. Having the leafy greens(since it was all they would eat at first), meds, and food to syringe feed with just in case. I'm glad I had the leafy greens and they were used to them, otherwise they wouldn't have eaten anything for a long time, since they wouldn't touch their pellets or hay. Here I was thinking boys would be sooo much easier and less stressful. Boy was I wrong. It was jjust as stressful.

 

[PaGal]

Morgan...We have a large, very large pile of dirt in our yard from digging for the garage foundation. Now it's a table top for the 4 wheelers and dirt bikes but last year I used some of the dirt to build a slight slope at the front of the house to get water to run away from our foundation. One of the girls, don't ask me why just a kid thing decided to collect all of the grubs I dug up in a jar. She had 107 when she stopped. Yuck!

Chris...she can't fool us with the cuteness! I don't have a green thumb when it comes to inside plants, most die although a few thrive but I do great with the garden so maybe that will work for you.

Jenny...I'm glad to hear the boys are eating and hope they improve quickly. They do like to make us worry at times. I have sage, parsley and strawberries growing from last year.

 

[whitelop]

No we don't do May day baskets, that seems like a cool concept though. I would totally do that for my neighbors, I have like 3. I wish I had more eggs, because I would totally put a bunch of eggs in there and some baked goods.

My cleanse is going well. I'm ready for it to be over though, I want to eat real food. Tomorrow is the banana, milk and soup day. The soup is what I'm excited about, its onion soup mix with onions, green peppers, cabbage and something else that I think I'm forgetting. I wanted to put kale in it, but when I went to this crappy walmart the other night, they didn't have any kale. But I think the soup will be good!

I really hope her spay makes her better, right now she's making me insane. My husband was like 'wow, thats a hell of a hole!' Then he was mad that she tore up the grass, haha. I told him that her tearing up the grass is MUCH better than her tearing up the stuff in the house.
No, she wasn't hot while outside. It was really overcast and it was cool today. It was in the mid 60s. She really enjoys it outside, she doesn't get scared or anything. She just hops around and digs and eats grass and does whatever. haha. I watch her, but I don't sit outside with her the whole time. I check on her like every 10 minutes. I have to watch my barn cat though, he doesn't understand that she is a PET not PREY. So sometimes I have to shoo him off. Unfortunately, she isn't afraid of cats because of the inside cats, so she doesn't understand that he isn't a friend cat he is a hunter cat. But she does well out there, better than she does in the house.

So I went to TSC and I really hate it there. I hate their feed selections and I don't like purina. But thats what I had to get, because the other brand they sell makes the chickens STINK to high heavens. I fed them when I got home and they act like they never get fed, they were all over me! Then they start attacking me when I put the feed in the bowls, they peck each other and peck me. haha. They're all so funny. I put most of the feed in two pans and then I put like 2 other piles for them so they're not fighting over the pans and they're more spread out. But they're fed and happy now. And they're BIG! Really big, they're almost as big as the hen now.

I'm watching hoarders and I really want to clean up all the toys in my living room, but I'm just so tired. Now I feel like a hoarder. I'm having conflicting emotions. haha. I need to put a bunch of clothes away, I swear that is the worst part of laundry; the putting away part. I hate it. And I'm hungry, I don't know what to eat though. I wish I had some lettuce because I would totally eat a salad because I can have balsamic vinegar and I have the BEST balsamic vinegar ever. I'll just drink some tea instead. haha

 

[JBun]

We don't do baskets either. We do have a neighborhood spring clean up, and have a community picnic after, but that's the extent of our spring community stuff. At christmas people will take stuff around though. Baskets do sound like a nice thing to do for your neighbors, but it could be hard to have to do so many, and getting a whole bunch of candy would be really hard for me since I have a HUGE sweet tooth

Morgan, the soup sounds like the best part of your cleanse. I love soup! Especially when it's cold outside. Now if you can add potatoes, sausage, and cream to that kale soup, it would be perfect!

I wish I could leave my buns out during the day. They would love it, but I live near the mountains and there are LOTS of predators around here, domestic and wild. Including the hawk with it's nest in a nearby fir tree. I think it's great that Ellie gets to have lots of outdoor time right now. Good for you and good for her. And she probably doesn't mind one bit

 

[TuckerandGusGus]

Wow, okay so I've been missing for so long! And of course it's so hard to catch up completely, but I am trying to get back in the loop with your blog here and Miss Ellie.. I didn't know she was being such a rotten girl d: I hope her spay really does calm her down & stops her territorial behaviors.

I think she is absolutely ADORABLE. Ugh those pictures of her outside are to dieeee for. I am gunna go back a little further in hopes to get some beautttiful pictures of Ellie [: It just started to get nicer outside, so I have JUST started taking my two buns out. Not together since they haven't bonded just yet, but seperately. Sunday I took them both out, it was Tuckers verrrry first time going outside, and he was sooo scared, he hopped around a little then I sat in the pen with him and he stayed ONTOP of me the whole time. Yesterday I took him out again when I got home from work, and he actually was definitely braver!! He did sit with me a little, and checked me out a little, but NOTHING like sunday.. so that made me feel better. I do think that since he was born in the colder weather that he's never been outside ever before our experience on Sunday... GusGus on the other hand, the lady who owned him before claimed she took him out to the park with her and her kids, She got him in August, and basically deserted him in December.. so she took him out a few times between august and december, I guess(?). anyways, he was definitely less scared out there. It was great! It made me feel better, haha. I didn't get to take him outside yesterday because I didn't have enough time for him, so I may do that tonight when I get home from work.. I only have so much time after work.

Your cleanse sounds interesting, but HARD. I'm not sure I could do that. I actually need to lose some weight, I have always been a chunky girl, and have never been skinny, at all. And I'm not even saying I want to be skinny, I just basically want to live healthier and feel more confident in my own skin, you know? So in the beginning of March I started eating better & exercising, and of course the end of march... I sprained my ankle really bad. Through this whole process so far I had lost 10lbs, but I stopped weighing myself after this past two weeks because I am afraid. When you exercise it's SO easy to make sure you're eating good, especially when you are counting calories.. but when you're injured and aren't allowed to do any cardio that's when it goes all down hill.. the first two weeks of being injured I still kept to my "diet," but the past two weeks I've been bad, not counting calories, and ordering out like I used to... now that my ankle feels better I am trying to incorporate some exercising into my schedule again. I may have to wake up extra early. Ugh.

Good luck anyways! xo

Sorry I went missing :\