Our Clan...now & always..

[TinysMom]

Shows can be SOOOOO addicting - can't they? I can hardly wait to go to a show again.

I love the pictures and all that you wrote about your day...I can't believe you didn't get the two babies...I don't know if I could've resisted.

It looks like it was a great day for you both.

 

[Orchid]

TinysMom wrote:

Shows can be SOOOOO addicting - can't they? I can hardly wait to go to a show again.

I love the pictures and all that you wrote about your day...I can't believe you didn't get the two babies...I don't know if I could've resisted.

It looks like it was a great day for you both.

Yeah I find now that the thought of driving 5 hours...well its not soooo bad lol...Honestly I wish I had someone else to do the driving though....I get so tired driving on highways...I scared myself driving back..kept feeling like I was gonna fall asleep...hate that...

yeah....I dont know how I resisted either....I had two cuties held to my chest and both seemed quite content to be there...the smaller one seemed sweeter...but I could feel her bones...so I was torn between the two ...and than I was like NO...stick to sable...I didnt bring the carrier on purpose...that would be like admitting we are buying and bringing home a bunny today......I sent Roger another email...mentioned I think I might like a buck and doe...I will wait to hear from him...but I honestly feel it would be worth the trip from NC to NH....make a pit stop in NY and see all my old friends! and perhaps some new ones! hint hint Cathy lol....

Perhaps it is the new med I am on that is helping that horrible lack of impulse control lol.....Only been on it about a week...and I feel so much better....Lina seems to think I am very different. Strange to think there could be a change so fast..I explained it to someone the other day that if I described a normal moment in time,...it is like I always have this ball of hate,anger, everything bad inside...with me every minute of every day...and now....now I feel like some one bounced it right out of me...That feeling is gone...Who knows for sure though..I could just be cycling into a mania...just doesnt feel that way is all

Have lots of questions and thoughts about breeding now...I think I will start doing some serious reading...Angelina likes the idea as well...but hey what kid wouldnt right? lol...

I wish I could actually buy a house...something I have wanted for years now...but even more so lately. Perhaps actually have that barn...just not the horses I dreamed of once housed in it..but buns.

The house is getting cold..dropped below 60 now...

I ran out to the shed and grabbed up this old plug in the wall heater we had from a few houses ago....thank goodness it still works. I have it in my bedroom...it is helping some..and will keep us ok through the night...I am NOT looking forward to the morning though...ah!

I dropped a crap load of hay into his litter pan and put another blanket in there...I dont know what else to do for him...as I can NOT have him in my room....sigh...

The landlord is talking about getting a new ac unit thingy installed...I am wondering though...how long would that take though?

 

[Orchid]

Update...

So last night the heat stopped working. While this sucked it made my landlord cave and buy a whole new unit which will save me tons of money on my bill....so says the guy putting it in.... It went out probably like 24 hours ago...

It has become cold enough in the house that I can see my breath....Even though my room has a small heater in it...not enough to make much difference...but it made sleeping tolerable in here...

Poor Dougal...he trashed his caged...threw everything around, upside down , from here to there...He looked so very unhappy.....

I put blankets down on the bed, brought in a litter pan, bowl of oats and some water....We did...O Kay....We had some more lessons about who the boss in the house is...He did not like my opinion...but I think we made a small amount of progress.....Yet when he would not stop trying to get down from the bed I had to crate him...He knew too....some how he knew (my room is too messy ) I wanted him on the bed. He was doing binky after binky in the same place...not running ya know...it was weird and awesome....

I lasted an hour before my allergies over came my pity...and he would not stop trying to get down anyway...so I did crate him but threw in another blanket just in case...he is cuddled into them...and I do not think he likes the cold....he just looks plain miserable.....

I think the dude might be done...I hear noise and smell something funny...and somehow it does smell....new....

 

[Orchid]

I was wrong about the location for the next show...it is further away....3 hours away, one way...177 miles or something like that...sigh...


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I was looking at Dougal today and trying to see...His coat is not very nice, that patch has started to grow in, but I doubt it will be alright by the 2nd of Jan....He had a red spot on his neck but I am not sure what that is from...I will watch it...His eyes and teeth look good, he is playful, though I think he is too boney..Just from the feel of the rabbits I held at the show...he seems so skeletal in comparrison. His back legs look dirty and icky... I keep his nails trimmed...for my own sanity...and honestly...he is actually really good about being picked up..carried..it is the setting down that is an issue...that whole falling thing I suppose...

number 1 on my daughters list for what she wanted this year was the flemish giant membership....I sent that in at the end of Nov with a note that my daughter wanted it for xmas...I know she received it but has not sent out our stuff yet...We have ten days to xmas....this SUCKS...she sent me an email that was rather short about how busy she is...I was not happy. We all have lives.....

I am trying to figure out what to do about Dougal...I have thought about the Hutch but the idea worries me on many levels...our NC heat being a huge one...It is not the hay...it is Dougal...and it SUCKS...This was the same with Isobel...it is not the hay , it is the fur of the animal...and I have begun to wonder...was Simon a true gift,...a fluke...because at the show I was getting all sneezy...and even though I was around the rex , so I was around the others...and I can not help but wonder if it is all rabbits, even the rex...

This is something I feel I need to discover...but for now...

I will list my daughter bedroom set on CL..I will try to sell it and not be greedy, but ask for what I paid...and I intend to buy her something like a daybed...This will open her room greatly...as the dresser she has now takes up the whole of one wall...The house we were living in at the time I got it...was much larger and this set suited it fine...but now here in this house...it has been nothing but a constant problem...such heavy stuff I can not lift it even with help...
I have to try to figure out how to transport him...The carrier we have now...I am rather sure he will not fit in...at least he can not stand..he would have to lay down the whole time and for being at a show...no...
If I can sell it...get her the daybed...I will move Dougal in pronto and her room will simply have to remain closed unless he comes out to play. He has NO issues walking on any surface...I thought about trying to put him in the kitchen but again I do not think that is realistic at all...

I can not tell if the house is getting warmer or not...when the thing on the wall turned back on it showed the house to be at 52....all I want to do is curl back under the covers...

 

[Orchid]

We lost Dougal today.

It has been a most horrible holiday season and this was the cake topper....

Fate really needs to back up off us and let us have some joy and goodness that can last a bit....Feeling rather angry...

 

[Fancy77]

OMG I AM SO SORRY!!!

 

[kahlin]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

 

[Orchid]

I can only imagine how demented it must seem to people to say I dug up my dead rabbit, but I did. Simon died during a time when the ground was soft enough that we could dig and bury him. Dougal I gave to the vet because I simply did not know what else to do.
Angelina is most concerned about Simon getting left behind if we should move, which we will at some point.
So the other day...I dug him up. I found as much of him as possible and I washed him off. My neighbor is going to weld him shut into a box for me and I will create a wood plaque for the top we will glue on that we can carry with us wherever we may go. Maybe one can say we go too far for this bun..but we did love him in a way that went beyond anything we understood to begin with.... When talking with Lina the other day I came to understand she still has not forgiven me for letting the vet put him down that day. Truth be told my heart torn in two...I have not forgiven myself for letting him be sick enough to die..as if some how I could have stopped it

So now I have Simon's bones sitting here waiting to be boxed in forever...lucky my neighbor is a welder. It was not as hard as I thought to do this thing..but it was hard to pull him from the ground.. It will make Lina happy to have him with her forever and for that I can not be sorry... The things we do for our children.. The price we pay to make up for not being able to save him...

 

[Orchid]

Baby (Who should have been known as Jasper)

Born 11/27/09 Purchased 2/26/10 from RiverBank Aviary (Laura)
un-banded Male


So...We brought home Baby,....hence named at first because he was one of the age and then because of temperment. He is a cockateil. Smart buggar but has some serious problem with being apart from other birds or me. He was the last to go from his nest and he just can not tolerate being too far away from us. He will scream and scream if you are in the house and in a different room then him....

So today I came home after a long day to a screaming baby and go to see him stuck in his corner pouting. Had not eaten. So I take him out put him on the top of his cage with his dish and he starts eating right away...Like I said...Big Baby..lol
So after some play and clean up I put him back in and sit on the edge of my bed. He is going down to his dish, picking up one pellet, climbing back up to his perch and eating and doing this over and over...so I crouch down to level with the floor of his cage and he stops and hangs out eating at the bottom....I sit back up straight up and he starts the up and down with the pellets again....too funny. I love my wacka doodle.

 

[Orchid]

I suppose it is normal to be afraid, to feel afraid to have another bun. To even consider the choice again.

There are so many things that need to fall into place before anything really can happen. Like my landlord.

1: Talk to landlord in June when we resign my lease and see if she will agree to add on the choice of getting a bun again. She agreed to it once, I do not see why she would not agree to it again.

2: I have a care credit card now maxed out on dental care, but I have been slowly and I mean very slowly paying it off. I would need to make major payments and clear the card off before bringing a bun home so we could do the first vet visits on that and anything of dire need after. We have a $1000.00 limit on the card.

Those are the top two things that would pave the way before much more thought is put into anything more besides I would like to find the local breeders in my area for the rex and lionheads in my area and talk to them at least. Or try to find the shows again. That would be another door. I think Angelina would enjoy them without too much pain in her heart for it...

 

[Orchid]

I've been gone a long time. Bunless, petless etc for pretty much this whole time.
A few fish along the way though.
We had a beta, Friday... He passed on a couple of days ago. So we went fish hunting yesterday.
Lina brought home another - named this one Oscar.
Darn if we didn't come across some of the cutest ever buns.
There is this little guy with blue eyes. Mini lop... sat right up and was all like love me. Ugh.
It's been a very long time since we've had a bun.
We got rid of everything we had. Even the nic panels. Didn't Think I could do it again.
Brushes, bowls, books... Even the info in my mind. I've been searching that thinking... Hay? Where & which kinds.
This guy is a real little lover. Cute cuddler, puddle of snuggle awesome.
I moved a lot since I was last here.
North Carolina to Colorado to New York to Maryland now. Just a step to get overt the border to Delaware where this bun actually is.
We are in an apartment now. Need to ask the landlord first. I'll do it tomorrow. Part me actually hopes he says no. Make that choice for me.
I've already made up my mind though if he says yes.
I don't even know if it's a boy or girl.
Didn't care. It was like this little perfect connection of wow.
Now I can't stop wondering, do we have another bun in our future and if so... Can it just go okay.. Just no problems and let it be okay?

 

[Azerane]

I think if it's meant to work out with this bun, then it will. Still, I'm hoping for the best that your landlord says yes.

I was personally offended the other day when literally one day after my cat of 18 years passed away someone at work asked me whether I was going to get another one. I mean, I understand the reason for the question, but no way will I be getting another cat any time soon, it just doesn't feel right. Give me time to grieve.

I guess what I'm saying is, that if this feels right for you, then I think you should definitely go for it

 

[Orchid]

Thanks Azerane! Yeah I know what you mean.
It's been so long. I wouldn't even look at the buns honestly. So this is just weird. A meant to be kind of thing maybe.

I spoke with the landlord. He was like, so it will be in a cage most of the time right? Sure sure. Lol.
He said yes. I called the girl & said hold him...her.
It's snowing like crazy right now. Probably Can't go till Thursday to bring this mini home.
Really can't wait though.
Wish it was now.
Trying to remember what were the things things we bought where...

 

[Orchid]

The mini

 

[Chrisdoc]

No wonder you couldn´t resist her, that face is so adorable. She sure is a lucky bunny and I´m sure when you get her home, it will be as though you´d never been without a bunny. I will catch up on the rest of your blog, I´ve read backwards but I think I need to start at the beginning.

Can´t wait till you get her home, hope we get lots more pics.

 

[Aubrisita]

Aw, that is an irresistible face, for sure. Congrats.

 

[Orchid]

@Chrisdoc... I'm sure we will overload with pictures. It isn't as hard to upload from my phone as I thought it would be. Though it came out sideways for me.
Being stuck home in this snow is killer but we are making the most of it.
Thinking planning etc.
Going over what needs to be moved, covered or blocked off.

I've been thinking of going back over the whole blog myself but part of me doesn't want to revisit all of it. Just move forward.

 

[Orchid]

@Aubrisita. Yeah killer cutie there. When I called and asked how we were today, my update was frolicking in the hay

 

[Azerane]

What an absolute cutie! So glad that your landlord said yes

 

[Chrisdoc]

Just read it from the start, what a lovely bun Dougal was and how you looked after and cared and loved him in his short life. So glad I went back and read your story.

This little bunny will be so lucky to be with you and I can´t wait for you to bring him/her home. I see that indeed you love pics so I, for one, will be so happy to see lots of this cute bunny.