We've had a fairly useful Saturday, all things concerned. We have at least one person, possibly two coming to look at chickens tomorrow and they are bringing someone who may be interested in rescuing the bonded bunnies. Thankfully, Josh had a chance to clean out all three rabbit cages! We've moved Shady Lady into the largest, with Boe in her old ( Read more... )

Someone I considered a bit smarter than they proved themselves to be just sent us a petition to tell the Navy to send their Growlers home. As if there is a single chance in hell that a bunch of idiotic citizens whining about Naval airplanes is going to do a damn thing to change the operations at NAS Whidbey or convince the Navy to relocate those ( Read more... )

Around noon, I received the following email ( Read more... )

I am so ambivalent about this one ( Read more... )

The Wild Ways by Tanya Huff.

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.

Now, comes the tough part - deciding between them!

Really. Never again. Folks with Costochondritis shouldn't sneeze. Its painful. It takes entire minutes for the initial supernova of pain to subside. So two months worth of sneezing is really not acceptable ( Read more... )

Our two farmhands started today, a young couple just moved to Whidbey and trying to get set up here. They are hoping to get full time positions, but in the meanwhile, they are working odd jobs to pay for the residential motel where they staying. They did a nice job, a bit slow, but that's normal for learning the ropes. The animals like them and ( Read more... )

Josh is participating in this and heading up the campaign in his shop at the Navy ( Read more... )

Martha Grahamcracker is now bouncing around the Rainbow Bridge, no doubt disapproving of it all, nibbling on everything and bossing everyone around. I would expect nothing else of our fierce little force of Nature.


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It looks at this point like we're going to need to bring Martha in to a vet to be humanely put down. We'd hoped, as you do, that she'd pass quietly in the night but while her body seems to be rallying, her brain has not ( Read more... )