Twenty-Nineteen

YIKES!  Okay, pull up a chair, get cozy and let's get reacquainted, shall we?

I realize a lot of time has passed... I let go of the blog for a bit - like many people I struggle with time management some days and in the back of my head sharing on the internet sometimes feels like screaming into a black hole... ANYBODY OUT THERE??

But, I journal, I fill planners and I like to write.  So I've decided to pull my blog out from the musty box I had shoved it into, dust it off and get back to it.  I suppose at the bare minimum, my children can one day peek through the photos and read my life lessons on the farm from my perspective and have a good chuckle at my expense.

There have been many lessons over the last few years.  Some self sufficiency, some animal related, ALL character and faith building for sure.  January and February are often slow months farm wise (watch that statement come back to bite me in the tushie and we have some sort of crisis here!) so my hope is to use the next month or two to bring you all up to speed.  Let's start with the character here at the top of my rambling...

If you follow along on Instagram, you've no doubt met Crenshaw our HOUSE BUNNY.  Yes, other than at night when he is tucked into his crate, Crenshaw is a free ranging house rabbit.

Last spring while checking out an auction, Sammy was excited to see rabbits.  Our friend Lauren, also attending the auction offered Sammy one of her rabbits.  A few weeks later, Lauren arrived with a little mini rex rabbit for Sammy.  Though he had not been a house bunny before this, Crenshaw had very good house manners, using a towel or bucket as a toilet and refraining from chewing anything other than his food and hay.  So as time went on, he began to spend less time in his crate and more time as the dogs and cats do!

Sammy named him after the main character in the book "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate that she was reading at the time.  Well, Crenshaw inspired everyone to want a rabbit pet, and as we really cannot have four indoor rabbits, we opted to adopt five of Lauren's meat-breed rabbits.  They live happily in the barn and have brought us a summer of snuggles, learning and stories to share which I will eventually do here.

Thanks for reading,