I gotta tell you all… it’s been so busy around here, I never have time to get bored! We have project cards by the dozen and chores and things going on, it’s nuts! I can see now that winter is going to be a welcome thing… time to chill out and read and craft and all that stuff! Right now, we have BEAUTIFUL weather FINALLY… High 70’s to low 80’s, sunny, breezy with a little teeny bit of rain here and there. The grass is beautiful and green, the skeeters are low and it’s just been SO fantastically beautiful out!!!

I didn’t want everyone to worry though, about the bunnies! They are doing wonderfully!!! Our two little rescue bunnies are putting on weight and we are getting their coats a lot nicer. Odin, the little buck, he still might benefit from a good shave down. We’ve tried and tried to get his coat nicer and brushed good but I think the poooor nutrition has left him with yucky hair. It just doesn’t really respond at all to the attention and is just well, weak and icky for the most part. We have even given him a bath, which helped greatly with the dried urine and yucky stuff, but it’s still, just lackluster. One of these afternoons I think we are just going to get the trimmers out and go barber shop on him. I’m sure it will grow back in nicer, thicker and beautiful!

Isn’t he looking lovely! Just a couple weeks and he’s just so much happier and fatter! You can still feel his ribs and spine a bit, but it’s so much fleshier and all. The thing I notice the most is that he is feisty and snuggly and his personality is starting to shine. He loves cabbage and carrots and is a little stinker about knocking over his food dishes! He loves hop around time, yet he’s one of the easiest of the flock to hold and cuddle with. He’s got his own crib now… which is actually a big 2 x 4 foot old playpen! He’s a much happier boy.

We got the hutch nearly done… the upper unit at least is habitable and Oswald, Gwendolin and the new girl, Grizzelda are very happy with it. Grizzy is so cute, she’ll hop right up and give you a little nose rub if you call her. She is super sweet and filling out nicely like her Daddy, Odin…

Jessy got some cute pictures of the gang playing in the living room. We have come to discover that Ozzy (Oswald) is probably a German Angora… Grizzelda is a English Angora and Gwendolyn is a French Angora doe! So we have a nice little cultural mix going on here, eh? Ozzy is fixed, so he’s just a cuddly muffin for the two does… they love him, groom him and keep warm with his fuzzy big body. He, of course, is just one happy bunny boy. It’s so funny to see him in the middle, with the two does just cleaning and grooming his ears and his face, he’s got a goooood thing going on… Odin is jealous for sure.

Old Gypsy is super sweet with the bunnies, she just likes to watch them and snuffle their fuzzy fur. I believe she just thinks they are weird looking kitties. They are big enough for sure! Evee can be good, but then if they hop around too much, she can get a little excited. But that’s to be expected from a 14 month old dog. Dingo really doesn’t give much thought to them.

People ask about the size of the angoras all the time, and I think this is a good picture… this is Jessy holding Ozzy, the German Angora! He’s pretty darn good sized! Bigger than a cat really. Now Gwen, she’s about as big. Odin and Grizzy are English Angoras and they are smaller, more like a house cat sized. Grizzy is the smallest of the bunch. Odin really should be a lot heavier, we’re working on him.

This is a shot while we were building the hutch. We designed it to hold about 8 bunnies ultimately. The top and the bottom can be subdivided into two cages, that could hold 2 bunnies. RIght now we have the three bunnies in the big top cage, which is actually 2 foot by 8 foot long. They have lots of room to lay out and hop around. Our ultimate plan is to add a French buck and an English doe. Odin is in our original cage and we plan to use that one eventually as a momma dwelling, with a nice kindling box and soft, more solid flooring for babies. We don’t want to match up Odin with Grizzelda, since he is her father. And he’s got a long way to improve before we would consider him as a breeding buck. We’re just probably going to keep our eye out for a nice sweet French buck and consider starting our little rabbitry that way.

But that’s probably a while away, and we want to finish up the bottom cages first. We have all the materials, just need the time! Perhaps this coming week! So far we have spent $125 on the whole hutch. I think that’s not too bad, considering how big and sturdy it is and the wire screening. That is really the most expensive part. Considering that just a single little kit hutch is at least $100, I think we’ve done pretty well. We’re going to stain it pretty soon, but again, might be a little while. It’s a to do card in our deck! Who knows! We might get to it eventually!

Jessy is enjoying her new bunny mommy status and she’s out there on the porch checking on them often. In the morning, she’s out there to feed and water her little flock and she always gives out the yummy treats and plays with each of them. And we try to squeeze in a little evening time for play romps around the screen porch and brushing! Always brushing… we have a nice big tote full of bunny fluff! By the spring, I hope we will be able to add a nice bundle to our sheep wool and make some lovely yarn!!! Our own blend.. a Shetland Angora blend… I’m sure it will be lovely and have a nice halo!!! Can’t wait to be knitting with our OWN fiber!! SO COOL….

Well, that is the bunny update! They are doing fantastic! We just got 20 of those little cube shelf panels at a garage sale and are planning to make a nice big outdoor bunny play room for them! Of course, under supervision! Stay Tuned!!!!