Fall Walks

November 6, 2014February 14, 2016 | Allison

Here are some pictures from recent nature walks around our farm:

I thought this mullein looked pretty with the dewdrops on it.

We saw a lot of gorgeous bluebirds in one spot where we walked. I ♥ bluebirds!

This is sort of a random picture.A little brown moth sitting on a little brown leaf

Spider!

We also found some salamanders under logs and such in the woods.

Awww, isn’t he cute? (Sorry for the not-so-good picture, but I wanted you to see him☺)

We also found good-smelling things, not just good-looking ones. This is pineapple weed and it smells deliciously fruity.

Does anyone know what this is called? I call it peppermint weed because it smells really minty! I know it looks really ugly, but it smells sooo good. I wish I could send you the smell!

Fungus among us!I took this picture laying down in the woods with my camera pointing up. I like the interesting angle on this one.

Which is your favorite picture?

***Allison***

Fall Is In The Air – And On The Ground!

October 2, 2014April 11, 2016 | Allison

Fall has arrived here at our house. You can easily tell if you look at our gorgeous trees. Like always, the pictures aren’t as good as the real thing, but they give you a pretty good taste of it.

There are a lot of fun things to do with fall: Make pretty leaf-and-acorn pictures or arrangements (inside or outside),

Make leaf piles (of course),

And let your bunnies play in the leaf piles. This is my rabbit, Honeybunny. She loved burrowing through the pile and hiding in the leaves. Is she not ADORABLE?

What do you like about fall?

***Allison***

Creatures and Critters

September 24, 2014March 14, 2016 | Allison

Here are some pictures of a few of the creatures and critters around our farm.

A green frog (we are actually keeping her in a terrarium in our house)

An orb weaver spider – see the zigzag in her web?

A bumblebee

A monarch – Did you know you can tell if it’s a monarch or a viceroy by checking if it has a black band across its bottom wings? If it doesn’t have the band, it’s a monarch, if it does, it’s a viceroy. This is a monarch – no black band.

Some kind of sulphur butterfly

A praying mantis – it is actually eating a bumblebee – see its head in one claw and its body in the other? (Gross!)

And here is Jinx, our cat, with spiderwebs on his whiskers. He doesn’t look too pleased to have his picture taken.☺

Which picture was your favorite?

***Allison***

Bunnies!

August 16, 2014February 14, 2016 | Allison

The fair was this week, and when we went we saw some adorable bunnies and we just had to have one. Megan and I didn’t think our parents would agree to our getting one, but to our surprise, they let us! And get three no less! We got them on the fifteenth. One for me, one for Megan, and one for Carmen. We decided not to get them from the fair, but we found some on Craigslist. We each had to pay for them, but we had enough money, and Mom got the supplies. We already had a rabbit cage from a former bunny, Nibbles.

The breed of rabbit that we got was “Silver Fox”. Sounds kind of odd for a rabbit, but when they are adults, their fur gets flecked with kind of a silver color.

We all got females- Megan and Carmen both have black ones, and I have a chocolate brown one. Carmen’s has a little silver spot on its forehead, so it’s pretty easy to tell Megan’s bunny and Carmen’s bunny apart. Megan named her bunny Rutabaga, Carmen named hers (with a little help from Megan) Diamond, and I named mine Honeybunny, but sometimes I call her Honey.

This is Carmen’s (Diamond)

This is Megan’s (Rutabaga)

And this is mine (Honeybunny)

We also had a bunny leash from Nibbles,so we like to take them outside with it. Sometimes they scratch you when you pick them up and put them down, but when you get them situated, they are very calm and settle down quite nicely. They’re really cuddly and soft and fun to hold.

We put their cage in an empty calf hutch and put some straw and soft grass down, and put in some crates to sit on. They’re a lot of fun to play with.

Here they are all together.