The Bunhalla Bunnies 2010

[Dragonrain]

Thanks - I'll keep you updated

Last night was night 4 of Kit sleeping outside his crate - and he was on his best behavior! He relaxed quietly until he heard Chris' alarm go off in the morning - then he proceeded to shower us both with kisses and put his tennis ball in our hands - lol! I told Chris that now he's never going to be able to accidently sleep in past his alarm again! :biggrin2:

Sometime today the landlady's son is suppose to come up and replace our kitchen faucet. He brought the new faucet up last night but didn't have the tool he needed to install it. Also, an electrician is suppose to be coming to fix our door bell. I'm kind of stressed out just because I get anxiety about stupid things, and I don't usually like when people I don't know well come into the apartment when I'm home alone. But I am excited we're finally getting stuff fixed! We haven't been able to use our dishwasher or kitchen sink normally for like a year now!

I've been reading a lot lately. Today I'll probably finish my current book - "The Harsh Cry of the Heron", the forth book in the Tales of the Otori series. They're historical fantasy books that take place in feudal Japan. Soon I'll need another book though and I'm not sure what - any suggestions?

 

[Dragonrain]

:grumpy The stupid landlord never fixed anything. I stayed home like all day waiting for him to come up and fix the sink, and for the stupid electrician that he said was suppose to come - nope, neither showed up.

Chris knows that I've been kind of stressed out lately, so when he got home from work we all (Chris, Kit and I) went to the park to unwind a bit. Kit played with an adorable little scottie dog for awhile and then played in the grass, while I was taking pictures outside and Chris was practicing kendo. Part of me is paranoid to let Kit play at the park now, in case that was where he got his roundworms - but he's a dog, he needs to have fun. I can't keep him shut up in the house all the time because I'm afraid he'll catch something.

The only thing that stinks is I think I might have caught something! Ever since we got home from the park I haven't been feeling well. I can't tell if it's my allergies acting up like crazy, or a cold.

Here are a few random pictures from the park.

 

[kirbyultra]

BOO - bad landlord! I HATE being stood up by maintenance. It's not only a waste of time, but you don't get to get your stuff fixed. It's so wrong because they have a responsibility to you

 

[Dragonrain]

I know it sucks. I mean we pay over $1,000 a month for this apartment and don't even have a working kitchen sink. And it's not like he just didn't show up this once, our faucet in the kitchen has been having problems for a long time now.

This electrician was suppose to come on Monday. Then the landlord said the electrician called him and rescheduled for yesterday because of some emergency. But then he never showed up yesterday either. :grumpy

All I know is that I'm not waiting around for them anymore. If they show up and I'm not here, too bad for them I guess - because I already wasted enough of my time waiting around for them.

 

[Kitty88]

That picture of Kit with his tongue out is priceless. :biggrin:

 

[Dragonrain]

Thanks! That was my favorite picture out of all the ones I got last night.

 

[Dragonrain]

Happy mothers day to all the animal momma's out there!! :biggrin2:

Last night Chris, Kit, Barnaby and I had a movie night. Barnaby loves watching tv, but there's no where really to put one in the bunny room, and I don't want one in the bedroom, so at least once a week or so I like to bring Barnaby into the living room to watch tv with us.

We watched "Ponyo", since my fiance got it for me for my birthday and had never seen it. Barnaby enjoyed movie night...

Kit was less entertained and ended up falling asleep on Chris' lap...

But he enjoyed spending some time with his "big" brother after the movie was over...

I need to think of some kind of activities to do with Ziggy & Berry to give each of them some one on one time with us. But I'm not sure what.

Excuse the awkward looking way Berry's standing and her stained fur. She sometimes looks kind of weird in pictures now. She doesn't have as good control of her left front leg as she use to, and is blind in her left eye - which is why now you'll almost never see her facing the camera with her left side. I think she looks better in person - and considering 4 months ago she couldn't even lift up her own head, I think she's looking great!

 

[kirbyultra]

Aw, Barnaby looks so cute watching TV!!!

 

[Dragonrain]

Thanks! Silly Barnaby - I swear he'd lay in front of the TV all day if I let him.

It's been such a windy weekend! I spent a lot of the day today going through some boxes of stuff that I never unpacked when we moved. I hung a couple of posters up in the bunny room and bed room, and decorated a little bit. I found the cord I've been looking for so I can hook up a mp3 player to the speakers I have in the bunny room. I used one of my old mp3 players to make a soundtrack for the bunnies to play in their room during the days, since their room is so out of the way I thought they might enjoy it.

For some reason, all the bunnies I've ever had have really loved this one kind of bed. I caught Ziggy and Berry snuggling together on it earlier today...

 

[Dragonrain]

Just ordered the bunnies 32 more lbs of timothy hay from Sweet Meadows Farm. They are going though it like crazy - hopefully this batch will last longer, since I got 32lbs instead of the 10lb boxes I've been getting lately.

Still need to order them some pellets and some stuff for the dog, and if I have enough an incubator for the geckos. I have a home made incubator that's been working well, but I still want to buy one. I'll probably try to get some wax worms for Aurora too - I need to fatten her up before her next set of eggs.

Chris stayed home from work today since he woke up exhausted and with a headache. Now he's crashed out on the couch with the dog sleeping on top of him, and I'm trying to get stuff done around the house but at the same time be quiet enough that I don't wake them.

 

[Myia09]

I want to get a pet bed like that for Chewy and Anakin, but I hate spending money on them because they are so expensive!

Are you no go on feeding pinkies for Aurora? They are the best way to fatten a female back up! I swear by it, lol.

 

[Dragonrain]

Yeah I think I'll see if the pet store has pinkies tomorrow-Aurora is kind of picky and refused them every time I've tried before, but maybe she'll go for it this time. If not, she likes wax worms.

I lucked out because someone gave me that pet bed for the bunnies. Before I had a grey one that Zeus loved so much, we had him cremated with it. I just couldn't see his little body in a box without something comphy to lay on - weird I know. Then someone from Bunspace sent us that white one for Christmas.

 

[Dragonrain]

The landlord just left - he finally fixed our kitchen sink! It's been broken for so long, it's weird to have it actually working now.

 

[Myia09]

I am glad he finally fixed it!

 

[Dragonrain]

Thanks! Me too!

It turned into this huge thing though lol. The landlord brought his friend over to help him fix it, because his friend is a plumber. But all they needed to do was replace the faucet. Then when one of them was under the sink, their elbow went through the plywood that was on the bottom of the cabinet that the sink is in. So then the landlord had to completely replace the bottom panel of the cabinet. So the poor landlord was here fixing all that stuff from around 9am until almost 4pm!

I'm kind of annoyed because I ordered the bunnies hay early on Monday morning- usually it gets here the day after I order, or two days later at the most. But according to my tracking number, my hay hasn't even been picked up by FedEx yet. If it doesn't get here tomorrow morning, I'll have to pick them up a bag of crappy hay tomorrow night, because I don't think I even have enough left to last me all day tomorrow.

All the pets are good. Kit is getting better and better every night with sleeping outside of his crate. This morning he didn't even wake us up, but waited patiently next to us until we got up on our own. I got the geckos some new sphagnum moss for their moist hides yesterday, and am looking at getting a new incubator in hopes that Aurora's next eggs are fertile.

 

[Dragonrain]

The hay tracking number says that the hay still hasn't even left the shipper. I really hope the tracking number is wrong and that it gets here today.

I decided that I need a new hay buying technique. So from now on, I'm going to keep 2 boxes of hay at all times - one that the bunnies are working on eating and the other as back up. When they finish a box, I'll start using the back up box and then buy more for backup.

This way I shouldn't ever run out, even when it takes extra long to ship, and have to waste money buying those stupid little bags of hay.

 

[kirbyultra]

Don't you hate it when that happens?! It's really hard when you don't have much storage space right?

 

[Dragonrain]

Yeah it is. I can store the hay boxes in the bunny room, but then it takes space away from the bunnies, which I don't really like to do - but we don't really have anywhere else to store it.

The hay is suppose to be delivered today, which is good because it means I won't have to use bagged pet store hay for the weekend. I'd probably have to get like 6 of those little bags to last my 3 two days.

Went to the pet store last night to get the bunnies hay for the night and crickets/wax worms for the geckos. I don't know why, but I really don't like crickets lol. Meal worms and super worms I'm fine with, and am trying to breed them myself - but crickets I just buy every week in smaller amounts so I don't have to deal with having a lot of them around the house.

All the animals are doing great. Nothing new really. I'm sure the bunnies will be happy to have their good hay though!

 

[Dragonrain]

Hay!

That's 35lbs between whats in the box and whats in the tupperware storage bin. I think I'm going to order 10lbs of orchard grass now, so when the timothy is gone and I'm waiting for more to get here, I'll have backup hay.

Sorry no pictures of the bunnies tonight. I'll probably get some this weekend. In the meantime, in case you need a dose of cute, here's my puppy love.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!!

 

[tonyshuman]

She is such a model!