Accomplishments

9:02 PM, Monday, 17 March 2010
Temperature: 51 F, calm & clear

Today was a day for new accomplishments; in addition to procuring more rabbit feed, a 3 foot cube cage was constructed as a new bunny habitat. It was constructed due to a sharp-sighted farmer noticing out a window the white buck bunny hopping from his cage to Minnow's, looking for some love. He'd chewed his door 's restraints open and hopped on out. While quickly retrieved, it
was nonetheless decided that it was 'time'. Construction went fairly well, although there were two casualties; a fly got hammered flat when it landed in the wrong place, and the farmer doing construction should've been wearing gloves and got a nasty cut to the back of a hand when the wire for the cages whiplashed. No stitches were required, thankfully.

The three foot height has however been decided to be too high for the easy placement of items within it, and future cages will be scaled down - 2 to 2 1/2 feet in height at most.

The black and white cat returned, and our barn cats have been working their nerve up gradually to chase it off. Patience is clearly needed, but Tink in particular feinted at it when it tried to go into the workshop, driving it back a yard or so.

One of the geese has laid an egg under the porch. Now we know where our nestboxes will go.

A farmer took the ladder and went up onto the roof to demoss it a bit, and to put down baking soda; the inspector who examined the house prior to purchase recommended this handy and usually on hand substance as an excellent moss killer. Just sprinkle it onto any moss on a clear day, and when it rains, it will wash baking soda and dead moss away.

Some of the seedlings have begun to poke up their heads! One of the cabbages has for sure; the others, we're less certain of.

The new lamb is doing well; its mother is somewhat overprotective but certainly tending to it with due attention and care. All in all, another busy but productive day.