Insanity

Well it's spring time around here and all the jobs are piling up. I am busy on the best of days with a fully working shoulder but now being as I am not fully recovered, I'm swamped. I have to rely heavily on Jacob's "boy strength" because I have super wimpy "girl strength" right now.

I have tons of pictures on the camera, to be posted here.... but that will have to wait until later. In the last week I've repotted just shy of 50 tomato plants, about 20 pepper too. Last night I got all the baby onion starts outside, along with the pea's I started inside about 2 weeks ago.

Jake and I are in the process of building a shed, our garage has to many wood shop tools in it to hold the hay and straw bales plus all the garden tools. Our straw was kept outside under tarps and so far this year we've caught 5 mice and 2 voles in traps, so that straw needs to move inside. Today is the official raising of the shed. It's a plastic thing, but we wanted to be able to take it with us when we move out to land as a temporary housing for what ever we happen to be working on.

Big Mamma doe is preggers (finally), she is due to kindle any day now. I feel so bad for her because she is obviously pregnant, they say some rabbits you can't tell by looking at them.... well it's not so with Big Mamma. I plan to breed our other doe soon after BM has her babies, that way the cycle of baby bunz is 1 month apart.

The new girls the Sussex's have finally started laying. Only two of them so far, and the egg size is adorably small. The old gals, the red star's laid large to extra large eggs and for the small size of bird they were, it was impressive. The Sussies however are big birds and they lay medium sized eggs. I think they would likely make a nice meat bird too since they seem to have a lot of overall heft to them. We'll find out eventually...

I made rabbit-chicken-bacon sausage the other day. I had one bird left from the Halperns and it needed to get used, so I deboned it and a half a rabbit, plus about 4 strips of bacon (mostly fat) all through the meat grinder. I added tons of spices: onion, pepper, garlic, sage, salt, cayenne and chili pepper and made some lean sausage patties. They are pretty good, a valiant first attempt.

More to come later.... I gotta go raise a shed.