Updates, where is the summer going?

Okay, lets see. First off, we wanted to write blogs bi-weekly or daily.. That just is not happening. You are lucky to be reading a blog at all from me this month LOL!

Life has been insanely busy. We have cut down to 50 rabbits, actually less then that as we haven't weaned the juniors yet so the rabbit barn is very empty and it feels great!!
I think we have around 40 cages w/rabbits and then approx 10 empty but maybe not quite that many. We maybe cut down a bit too much... But we shall see we have lots of promising animals coming up.

I will go week to week from my last blogs...

I still have to go wedding shopping for shoes and a couple of little things, and I need to get a haircut before then too. (less then 2 weeks to the wedding now)

I have a bunch of shifts this week 9-5:30, by the time I get off and get chores done it is 7:00 and then I have to take the dogs out for a run, and check e-mail and work on wedding stuff..... So there isn't a lot of time for anything else these days! Before the show this weekend I worked on the rocks for each guest(labeled). My friend had done most of them, but I finished them up. Then I finished all the wedding guests "party favours". All 100 of them... Each piece of lace had to be folded, tied, a bow or something on the top, filled with the candy, and then put into a safe box for the wedding.. 100..... That took a couple of nights 3-4 hours a night...

Our mom had a super busy weekend painting fences, and now the basement floor and getting ready for all the guests we are having here. Stan took his 3 stackers(our 3 from Grand View rabbitry) and his 20 feeders so that was good to get all of that stuff gone, and wendy took her 13 feeders. We sold a bunch of EZ mats and dishes/water bottles.

We are getting a few sheep as well, so we have been busy researching breeds and we went to coombs fair last weekend and down to a sheep breeder in Saanich, and then the fair this weekend as well. We entered 9 Mini lops... We did only okay on Saturday under Cathy Armstrong- our first show under her. We managed to pick up a jr leg on a chestnut doe, and 1st solid jr buck but not enough for a leg, black Jack was 2nd/5. So okay, not great. Yesterday we took BOB with a solid jr doe out of Braxtin/Ada! And we took 1st broken jr doe. Saturday we had 1st, 2nd and 3rd solid jr does. We had nothing that wasn't moulting in the barn so we just picked what we had to pick from as far as coat goes!!! A doe we did a breeding to, to Amanda Swan was BOV broken yesterday- a gorgeous broken opal doe out of Adson. And a buck out of Posey's Phebe was BOSV broken yesterday that Jody bred out of her buck Mitchell's Link.

We didn't sell any rabbits, we took 3 to sell but 2 were pet stock(thought there might be someone wanting a pet mini lop) but as it was not many people sold anything. I think the holland breeders only sold 4 which is amazing as usually hollands sell out at that show!

Congrats to Kathy Mannweillers BIS with her Havana under Cathy and RIS went to Stan Mobey and Kathy Johnsons Mini rex, and then BIS Sunday was Judy Currie's New Zealand and RIS was Amelia Marchetti's Fuzzy lop.

It was so hot on Saturday we almost pulled our entries as we were very worried about the rabbits. It was 37 degrees out, and with all the people in the show room, and no breeze at the end of the barn where we were, we were very worried. Thankfully all was fine, and we had a spray bottle, and frozen ice bottles that we took for all the rabbits so we made out okay. But, they just aren't used to that heat. When we got to the barn it was 31 in the barn, which is the hottest it has been all summer in the barn, we quickly got it down to 29 degrees. That was a soaker hose on the roof, 4 fans including an industrial fan going and it was still that warm.

This week we have so much to get done... Oh to top it off, because we are getting sheep we had to put wire up in the cow area so the sheep couldn't get out and put wire on the gates, cut down thistles, and walk the pasture, and just all of that kind of stuff for the sheep. We had to get our show stuff ready to go, and all the stackers and feeders, and we cleaned our uncles house and anyway.. it was just a really crazy week last week. We also babysat our Aunt and Uncle's dog(s) X 3 one evening, and had company another.

Anyway... will write another blog again soon with rabbit updates.... : )