Thumper AKA fuzzy butt!

[whitelop]

That is A LOT of watermelons! Wow.
I just got a little watermelon plant. Its a jubilee one, so the bigger longer seeded ones. Those are my favorites! Its so weird that your hub is allergic to fresh fruit, I wonder why its only the fresh stuff? I am allergic to mangoes and it makes my mouth itch and makes my lips feel like they're sunburned and they peel for like a week and a half, it really sucks.

It got pretty chilly last night, I don't think it got down to frost but I did think about it. Everything is okay outside though, so its all good! haha. I've had several old times in my area tell me put everything in the third weekend of April, but thats in my area and I know your weather is different than mine!

When your hub gets sick, does he act like a girl?

 

[PaGal]

Myself, I like any watermelon. That's the one thing everyone in the family likes. We figure the acidity or something is changed when the fruit is processed or frozen. Funny that it's just mangoes for you. I was allergic to citrus fruit, peanuts and chocolate when I was a kid but I outgrew the allergies and can eat it now.

He rarely ever gets sick, the girls always seem to pass it on to me but no he doesn't act like a girl. My ex did though. Does yours? My hubby does fuss and cuss a lot if he bangs his head or something falls on it. He seems to have an extra sensitive head. Ha.

 

[PaGal]

There is a dastardly plot afoot to keep me from my duties. The culprit in this scenario...one big ole fuzzy butt! Thumper is just really demanding extra attention today. I gave him pets for several minutes after letting him out this morning. I decided to clean his cage early and he was all in my face, crawling under me and nose bonking. He even nipped my sleeve once which he got fussed at about although he only seems to do it when he wants me to move and a nose bonk goes unnoticed.

So I kept stopping the cleaning to pet him for several minutes and then would go back to cleaning. This went on for a while.

The last time I headed into his room he wanted to play so we did until he started to slow down so I laid down and gave him rubs. He relaxed. His one ear ever so slowly started to droop until it was resting on the side of my face and all I could see out of my eye was a very clean and pink interior of a bunny ear. It put me in a relaxed stupor just lying there with him giving pets. Now I just want a nap.

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

I'm just catching up on everyones blogs.

I feel your impatience, I have to wait a few days to plant my garden to be sure there will be no more frost, and I'm so so so impatient. Ugh, I can hardly wait to start planting my garden. I LOVE watermelons! they are my favorite fruit! This year I'm going to grow a variety of watermelon called carolina cross. Its one of the biggest kinds of watermelons. And the record for the biggest watermelon which was around 295 pounds was a carolina cross. Most people who grow carolina cross get maybe a 60-70 pound watermelon, but who knows, maybe I'll get lucky and set the new record . I don't think I'm allergic to anything, at least nothing I know of. I'm glad your hubby found out he could eat a certain variety of watermelon he must be so excited to be able to eat them. When did he find out that he could eat that variety? And wow, that's a HUGE amount of watermelons. I wish there was someone here giving away free watermelons. Last summer we would eat one watermelon a day in the morning. Yum, that was so good! I can not wait to start growing them here.

 

[PaGal]

ILoveMyRabbit...The farmers just planted the fields around us today so we must not be too far off on our calculating it being best to wait until the end of the month. I hope you get some huge melons with your crop. Last year my new item to plant, meaning I never grew any before, was pumpkins. I got seeds for ones that have grown to 300lbs. They were rocking and getting big but then they were attacked by bugs which destroyed the stems. I'll try again this year.

He found out about three years ago he could eat the sugar baby watermelons because he just could not help himself and had to take a nibble. It didn't affect him, no itching or swelling in his throat. So now that is what we plant every year which is fine by us. They are not very big but we always seem to have plenty and I really couldn't fit a larger one in my fridge with all the other food that is always in there.

We give away a lot from our garden, we always give to the neighbors and usually every one that comes over goes home with veggies or fruit. We have been lucky in that our gardens always seem to do pretty well. Some years we may have issues with one or two things but everything else seems to go fantastic.

 

[Katielovesleo3]

My neighbor grew watermelons last year and he put them right next to the fence to of course, the vines climbed the fence and came on over to our side, and we had some extra goat paneling there and it wrapped all around it and we watched impatiently for the watermelons to grow big and tasty. Well after what seemed like foreverrrrr we finally cut on off and chopped it open and ate it and it was not yummy. I was upset. So I went and bought a watermelon from the store. Apparently I just don't have a taste for watermelon anymore. I like watermelon flavored things but not the actual fruit. SO...no more watermelons for me, they taste weird and have a funny texture..

 

[PaGal]

Katie...that's odd. So you didn't like the store bought watermelon either? I know with some veggies or fruit you have to be careful what you plant it next to because something that should taste sweeter can taste bitter from being planted next to the wrong veggie.

We are always impatient waiting for them to ripen. The spot they rest on will turn yellow when it is ripe.

 

[PaGal]

It is going to be a long day. Yesterday about noonish I started cutting my grass. I got the whole area around the house done but did not finish the whole yard because I ran out of gas. I then raked a pile of debris such as branches that we need to burn to an area that will be less in the way until we can get a few days with no rain so everything is dry and a day without gale force winds! Most of the stuff was wet so it made the raking even harder and then I started cutting off dead branches on the two Leyland trees in the yard.

I didn't stop till the kids got home a little after 4. I am so sore today and when I am sore I am always tired plus I was woken an hour earlier than I had to get up by one of the girls needing a breathing treatment. Hubby says take a nap as there is nothing to stop me, he forgets that naps make me feel horrible.

I am kind of excited though. We needed a new mattress and box spring for a while simply because what we had left us not sleeping well and hurting. We finally bought some. After a day we returned it because we got a queen but decided we needed a king. Well the bed is more comfortable than what we had but still not comfortable enough. Still having trouble sleeping and waking up hurting although not as bad. So the other day after I had done some research we ordered a mattress pad, but not just any mattress pad. It's a down one and very thick. They gave an arrival date from the 14th-20th. I checked this morning and is in the area. They should be able to deliver it today so I am hoping to get a good nights sleep and many more to come.

In a few weeks I plan to get the bedding I want so our bed will be pretty.

I am going to start spanking some animals soon! Now that I cut Thumper back on pellets as soon as he realizes I have his pellets he rushes the cage, launches himself into his litter box and almost always manages to knock my hand around. Half the time pellets go flying. Now our one cat has started to do the same thing. I scoop the cat food out of the bag with a measuring cup used for only that purpose and as soon as I start to pour the food into her bowl she hits my hand intentionally with her head so I pour out more.

My animals are not starving, they are not underweight, they all get fed at least twice a day. WTF? Shoot they usually eat better and more than me. Give me a break!

I can say Thumper is really eating his hay now. He is finishing what I give him at night and yesterday I refilled in the morning and had to add some more before he went in his cage at night when I used to just have to refill in the morning. I think though that I am going to have to buy something bigger for holding his hay. He is eating so much more hay now plus the holder I have was bought for his smaller cage so I purposely bought something smaller. I still need to purchase what I need to make him a shelf, stuff for a first aid kit and a baby gate. It seems like I am always buying something for him. Not that I mind I just had no idea. I figured I would buy something like a hay rack and it would be done. This will be the third one. I didn't have anywhere near this amount of baby gates when I had actual babies.

The kittens are just as adorable if not more so. The shape of their eyes and the color and all makes them just so darned cute. It's hilarious watching them try to attack each other. Yesterday after dinner I went out to see them. During the day they just eat and sleep, it's not till later afternoon that they get active. So I walked into the room and they all started meowing and made their way to the front of the cage. I think they wanted to see me and to be picked up. It could be a fluke but we'll see today.

The two softest areas on Thumper is the spot right at the back of his head and the white part of his tail.

 

[whitelop]

We just got a new mattress too! Its so much better than our old one! I actually get decent sleep, which is coming up from getting no sleep on most nights. I also got a new comforter set to make it pretty, you sound just like me! haha. I love getting new bedding, its so nice when everything looks pretty! It makes me feel better to make my bed in the morning when my bed is nice looking and it looks like a grown up bed now. All our other stuff was mismatched stuff, so it didn't look "grown up".

My animals do the same thing! They make me insane. My barn cat gets fed twice a day and he still runs in the house to try to get the food from the kitchen during the day and before its time to feed him. My chickens also eat more feed than I ever thought possible and they beg me for feed! haha.

I have a hard time taking naps too. I can take a nap, but sometimes when I wake up I'm groggy and in a bad mood so I just try not to take naps now. haha. I did take like a 4 hour nap on Mothers Day, that was a mistake. I was SO tired that day, but the nap made it hard for me to sleep that night. Thats another reason I don't take them.

I would just take it easy today, if I were you. But the only way to get to sore out is to work it out! Thats what I always told myself riding horses, you have to ride the sore out.

 

[Pipsqueak]

Ha this is so funny, I just got a mattress too! It's a memory foam so very comfortable. My one cat always jumps into the food bucket when I'm getting him his food, he's so weird sometimes lol, and Olivia loves to come up and knock the food scoop from my hand when I'm feeding her. I hate taking naps they just make me more tired...

 

[PaGal]

Morgan...I am really hoping to wake up less during the night from being uncomfortable. Oh, and the hubby snores now. He didn't used to but ever since we started having trouble being comfortable he has started to. I so want a quiet hubby again :yes:

I've been pondering the bedding situation for a while. Our bedroom here is so much nicer. The other one was too small and covered in dark paneling so like being in a cave. Right now we have two comforters on the bed. Hubby likes two, I only need one. I saw a nice very warm and heavy looking comforter that should work for hubby but it would never fit in my dryer and I do not want to have to go to a Laundromat. I found a really pretty quilt with matching pillow cases and bed skirt. It's an elegant looking quilt. Some color and flowers but not too much. I don't want too frilly and girly if you know what I mean. I'll put it off for a little while as I stick with a budget and I want to buy everything at once because if I don't they'll discontinue selling it after I just buy some of it. That's what happened to me with the girls bathroom.

I just wish sometimes you could tell the animals to just give you a break for once and be patient and it work!

 

[PaGal]

I wake up from naps feeling tired, groggy, grumpy, neaseous and with a headache. So no naps for me. I might feel that way from being tired but it gets worse after a nap.

We had a memory foam matress pad that we used before but after a while it stopped helping. It seemed to not be as lofty as when we first got it. But it was a 4" thick pad. I'm curious how the mattresses are though.

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

Hopefully you guys will be able to plant your garden soon. I can't wait until I can plant my garden. I'm sorry bugs attacked your pumpkin plants, hopefully your crop will be better this time around.

I'm glad your hubby found out he could eat sugar babies. I wonder if there are any other varieties of other kinds of fruits that he can eat.

Our gardens have done pretty well too. Last year we grew some potatoes and we got a HUGE amount of them, when we harvested them we had so many potatoes that they lasted us the whole winter. And we use a lot of potatoes. The funny thing is we were buying some tomatoe plants from a guy and his wife and they had a sack of potatoes that they didn't know what to do with so they gave it to us. So we planted them and that's how we grew so many potatoes, we grew a huge amount from just that sack. And we saved a lot of money too, because normally we would have had to have bought potatoes from the store.

I'm with you, I don't like taking naps either. They make me more tired and groggy when I wake up.

I hope your mattress pad will help you sleep better. Its not fun to sleep on an uncomfortable mattress.

Ash doesn't hit my hand to make me spill more pellets, I don't scoop my pellets near him. But I'm sure he would make them spill if I did scoop them near him.

I'm with you, I wish we could tell our animals to give us a break sometimes. It would be a lot eaisier on us humans.

Aww, the kittens sound so sweet. I'd like to get a kitten someday. But I have to have more space and time before I do get one.

Ash's softest areas are on the back of his head too, and under his chin, and his belly is really soft too.

 

[PaGal]

Elise...I just now noticed your name

Thumper doesn't hit my hand when I'm scooping his pellets, he hits my hand when I am putting them in his dish. His dish hands on his cage so it would be even harder for me to first put the pellets in his dish and then hang it.

I love growing potatoes and sweet potatoes because it's so exciting when you finally get to start digging them up and see what you have. Our potatoes didn't do well last year but we didn't plant many just one row. We planted like six rows of sweet potatoes. We gave a lot away, canned some (we can them like yams), ate a bunch and we have about a wheel barrow full still. We found a field mouse nest with five little babies in it when my husband lost his wedding ring in the plants when he was digging some up.

I don't let it bother me much when something doesn't do well because we always have plenty of other things although I do try to learn from the experience though.

Well the mattress pad arrived today so I get to see how it does tonight. I'm so excited. When I lived in Germany we took a trip to Bavaria and the place we stayed at had a feather mattress pad and I still remember how comfy it was, like sleeping on a cloud.

 

[whitelop]

I want a feather mattress pad SO bad. My hub asked my MIL a few years ago to get us one for Christmas, instead she got us some cheap mattress pad that didn't do anything, it was like an inch thick. I still put it on the old bed because it was a horrid thing, but the new one has like a 3 inch pillow top and doesn't need it! haha.
I really want a feather comforter, to shove in a duvet. I like duvets because you can buy a few and then change your whole bed! I think that would be great. haha. I also just really love feather comforters, they're like sleeping under a cloud!

I've never planted potatoes. I wanted to this year, but we didn't clear the field out like I wanted to, so no potatoes. Oh well, maybe next year.

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

Oh, I didn't know that he did it when you put it in his dish. Ash doesn't have a hanging dish so I wouldn't know how to deal with it if he did.

That's part of the reason I grow potatoes too, its always fun to dig them up and see what you've grown. The biggest potatoes we got were like 10 inches long! Its always fun to grow potatoes. We grew ours in a big patch of dumped top soil.

Yes, its best to learn from experience. I've only grown a few gardens so far. Because I used to just buy the food I can grow. So I'm fairly new to gardening. Still, my gardens have done pretty well. I think researching online helps a lot when you start gardening. We have lots of gardening books too and they are pretty helpful.

Oh, that's great that your mattress pad arrived today! I can't wait to hear how you like it. I know what you mean about feather beds and mattresses, once I went to Slovakia and they had some feather pillows and it was so soft. I can only imagine what a feather mattress would feel like.

 

[Pipsqueak]

I love my memory foam mattress, the company I got it from has different levels of firm and soft, I picked a 6 it's very nice not to firm but you're not sinking into it lol. I love growing potatoes, this year we're growing sweet potatoes so hoping they grow well.

 

[Katielovesleo3]

Yep, I'm an odd person. For years I didnt like French fries, and just recently I started liking Mac and cheese. And I still do t like green beans. They're sick. Along with lots of other foods I don't like haha.

Ah yes I know exactly what you mean about them knocking the food out of your hand. It's happened to me several times and I just sit there for a minute like "did that just happen?!" Then I'm like ok well have fun foraging terd! d:<

 

[PaGal]

Pipsqueak...good luck with the potatoes. I like mine with cinnamon and sugar after baking.

Katie...I think we are all weird! I mean like literally everyone. I know there are things I didn't like when younger that I like now and things I liked then but can't even stand the smell of now. And with some things it just depends on who makes it and how.

He defiantely has to forage when he sends them flying.

 

[PaGal]

I don't know if the feather mattress pad helped or not. I was hurting so much when I went to bed I couldn't tell. My whole upper body hurt from the yard work on Tuesday. It's ridiculous but if I sit on our couch like you are supposed to sit it makes my knees ache so bad. Well that's the only way I can sit while I'm using my laptop so my knees were killing me when I went to bed also.

I feel like I should not have to do another thing today since I went grocery shopping. I really don't like going but it makes sense for me to do it. The hubby doesn't like to either, he spends more and he has less time for it. I don't know why it takes so much out of me. I feel like I have sacrificed enough and have done enough for one day. Too bad I have so much more to get done.

I'm disappointed too. We have a smaller hardware store near where I shop and I went in hoping to find material for a shelf for in Thumper's cage but all they have was a white shelf made of pressed wood and it cost a good bit I thought. I want wood for the shelf so I don't have to worry if he chews it. I would rather spend a little more if I have to for a board of wood and have left over wood for something else then to buy the shelf they had. I didn't find anything that I feel would work for a hay rack either.

I did get gas though for mowing so I can finish that.