Furry Things in a Field

November 16, 2015February 14, 2016 | Allison

It was a gorgeous Sunday yesterday! My brother, sister, and I took Yoshi (our new bunny) out to the field. I took pictures of various things – bunnies, kittens, plants… you name it! Oh look!, here are the pictures right now…

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We covered Yoshi in a refreshing bunch of radish leaves from the field. He seemed to enjoy resting under them.

How do you like his green ‘do?

Coffee Bean the kitten wanted to join the fun.

Cuddle time!

Curly vetch tendrils

And a few pretty weeds. 🙂

Which picture was your favorite? And how is the weather where you live?

***Allison***

Crystal Pond, and Treasures Found There

November 13, 2015February 14, 2016 | Allison

Somewhere on a farm, hidden away in its own little secret world of trees and brush, there is a pond whose shores are littered with millions of sparkling quartz crystals… Well, OK, Crystal Pond isn’t quite as romantic and fairy-tale-like as all that, but it is still one of my favorite places on our farm.

Don’t get confused by the name – the water in the pond isn’t crystal clear, but rather the land around the pond has pretty quartz crystals scattered on it. Sometimes there are a bunch of crystals, sometimes… not so much, especially when the pond is high. The bad thing is, the pond is kind of surrounded by a defense wall of thorns, prickly evergreens, and brush. Yeah, it’s just a tad hard to get to. But once you get inside, it’s nice and quiet and peaceful. There is always some treasure waiting to be found along the shores or in the scrubby woods beside the pond. Crystal Pond has several of my favorite things around it: water, moss, rocks, and mushrooms!

Here are, um… a LOT of photos.

Moss:

A beautiful quartz crystal!

This rock looks like it has a heart in it.

And… lots of mushrooms!

Aren’t these such cute little mushrooms? They look like they are made of playdough or something.

And some close-ups:

I also found a strange, lonely, frilly mushroom with no identity tag. Does anyone know what it is?

And some other things:

A pill bug going busily about his day (I edited this picture),

An interesting plant (I think maybe a Chinese lantern?),

Some bright red berries,

An ivy vine with berries,

And a beautiful pine tree.

And that’s it! Are you still awake? 😛 If so, what was one of your favorite pictures from this post?

Bye ’til later!

***Allison***

Meet Yoshi the Rabbit!

November 12, 2015February 14, 2016 | Allison

We have a new rabbit on the farm! He is from our friends, who gave him to us because they had two males that were not working well together. Yoshi is now my brother Logan’s bunny. Now kid in our family has a bunny! (And I have two.)

Yoshi is an adorable Holland Lop rabbit. Here’s his profile:

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Breed: Holland Lop

Color: Broken (spotted) brown and white

Name: Yoshi

Gender: Male

Age when we got him: 5 months

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Now for pictures – a LOT of pictures.☺

In this next picture, ↓ Yoshi is kind of slipping on the floor, but I think he looks ADORABLE that way!

Here are a couple of pictures of Yoshi in his little cozy house my brother made for him.

And one more of him drinking…

So there he is! Isn’t he so cute?! Yoshi is just a little bit bigger than Clementine, our other Holland Lop, and we will hopefully breed them soon.

***Allison***

P. S. We just discovered that Olaf may actually be… a girl! *Gasp!* Apparently, the man we bought Olaf from didn’t check very closely to make sure “he” was a boy when we bought “him.” Also, when we figure Olaf out, I will put up a page of bunny profiles on my blog.

My Word Collection, a Poem, and a Pun

November 11, 2015 | Allison

Hold on, people, this is going to be a very random post! Ok, so I have this little notebook where I write down ideas that I have, and once upon a time, I “collected” words that ended in “et” but sound like a long “a” at the end – for example, “bouquet.” Really strange. I know. But it was also pretty interesting, and I collected a lot more words than I thought. In fact, I collected 15!

bouquet

croquet

beret

buffet

Monet

ballet

valet

sorbet

chalet

Cheverlet

filet

gourmet

crochet

cabernet

sachet

Do you know of any words I missed?

I challenge you to make up a poem with these words! Here’s the uh…. interesting poem I came up with:

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Monet

went to

Gourmet

Buffet.

He wore a blue

crochet

beret.

He ate

filet

and then

sorbet,

then trotted off to do

ballet.

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Hee hee! That was fun! And now, to finish off the random word-ness, here is a pun I made up for part of our poetry program in school:

I hope you enjoyed this very random word post!

***Allison***

Roly-Poly Stuffed Bear

November 9, 2015November 10, 2015 | Allison

I made this little guy for a gift for one of our friends. He was so cute I almost didn’t want to give him away! 🙂 I found this great tutorial with templates for making the round felt sphere part of him, and once you make the sphere you can customize it to be anything you want! Here’s the link to the tutorial on how to sew the pieces together (the actual tutorial part is towards the bottom of the post) tallystreasury.com And here’s the link to the template – it’s down near the bottom of the page under “Sewing Patterns” #14: tallystreasury.com/patterns/.

And now for a photoshoot!

This last picture shows him with a necklace I made that I also included in the gift. Doesn’t he look like he’s wearing earbuds or something?

Don’t you just want to squeeze him?!

***Allison***

Mystery Revealed! #4

November 7, 2015November 7, 2015 | Allison

Drum roll, please! I will now show pictures of what the mysterious things were…

#1: Wheel pasta

#2: Velcro

#3: Carrots

#4: Conch shell

#5: Popcorn cob

#6: Kitten paw

#7: Leftover spaghetti noodles 🙂

And now for the winners!

Abigail and Clara (my cousins♥) are first,

gadanagg is second!

Thank you SO MUCH to for playing guys! I really, really enjoyed reading your guesses. See you later!

***Allison***

The Hard Life of a Rabbit

November 4, 2015December 2, 2015 | Allison

We very much enjoy playing with our dear rabbits, but sometimes I think our rabbits don’t very much enjoy playing with us. Lily, Willow, Diamond, and Clementine will be sharing with you a few of the trials they have experienced lately. It is apparently very trying to be a pet bunny! Lily especially seems to have troubles.

Lily: Ahem. Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. Are we ready? OK. So, one of the trials that we rabbits have been experiencing lately has been our humans bringing us inside their house. ~~When the humans dragged me~~ in When I politely, but reluctantly complied to being brought inside, it was horrible! For one thing, the ground must have been made of pure slipperiness. And for another thing, it is shameful how they laugh at us when we go sliding about on the floor as we try to walk. It makes us look highly undignified, to say the least. I even heard the word FOOLISH! Well excuse me, but that was partly the humans fault! Look at this picture if you want evidence. Do you think I wanted to be held that way? Well…. NO, I POSITIVELY DID NOT!

I demand justice! (Or at least a towel to hide under.)

Thankfully, when I just couldn’t stand the slipperiness any longer, I could always clamber up onto the humans’ backs or into their lap, which they seemed to like. It would be far beneath my dignity in normal circumstances, but…

There is a bright side: my human said I was a superb back massager! She and her two sister humans quite enjoyed my massages. (Really, all I did was walk around on their backs, but don’t tell them.)

Willow: Hello, lovely humans! This might surprise you because of the title and all, but I really am pretty content with my life right now. The humans are very loving to me. But there is one thing: I don’t like it when they brush me. I’m not sure they understand my fur. My skin is very sensitive, and I really don’t appreciate when they yank my fur with a brush just to get a few pieces of straw out! Here is a rather blurry picture of me hopping for a bonus picture because my human thinks it looks funny.

Diamond: I, like Lily, have recently experienced the trial of being brought inside. Don’t ask me why they do it – it’s certainly not because we like it – but humans rarely ask us our opinions. I do not need to repeat all of the trials that Lily has so well outlined for you above, but here is a picture, just for proof. Just a picture of me relaxing, as you see. It is really the wisest thing to do when in a house to just lay down and not even try to move – if you try to move it will only make the humans screech louder.

Clementine: Helo. My nam is Clementine. I hav had a tryal. The hyoomens put me in a hat and set me on the conter. It was not fun. And they laft at me and skweeled to.

*Translation:* Hello. My name is Clementine. I have had a trial. The humans put me in a hat and set me on the counter. It was not fun. And they laughed at me and squealed too.

And now you know how hard it is to be a pet rabbit. Or at least one of our pet rabbits. 🙂 I hope you enjoyed reading! Which “testimonial” was your favorite?

***Allison***

P. S. I just did another mystery picture post (see previous post). I will hopefully reveal the answers on Saturday!

Mystery Pictures Post #4

November 2, 2015November 3, 2015 | Allison

Time for another round! I haven’t done this for quite awhile, and I think I’ve got a few tricky ones for you this time! If you don’t know how to play, here are the rules: I will show you several mysterious, close-up pictures of… something, and you will try to guess what it is. Leave a comment with your guesses, like, “I think #1 is…, #2 is…, etc.” In a post in the near future, I will tell you the answers, who guessed correctly, and add links to the winners’ blogs if they have any. Oh, and don’t panic if you don’t see your comment below the post, because I don’t approve the comments until I tell you the answers, just so no one gets ideas from someone else. 🙂 Got it? Alright, let us begin.

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Have fun! I can’t wait to see your guesses!

***Allison***

Make a Zoo Terrarium

November 1, 2015December 30, 2015 | Allison

My little sister Carmen, and I had fun making a little zoo terrarium with some of the bajillions of plastic animals we have piled up. We first put a fresh layer of soil down in a glass aquarium and divided the space into six pens of various sizes by scraping a line in the dirt. Then we made fences by gluing three toothpicks evenly spaced onto a pair of small wooden craft sticks, like so. I was too lazy to get up to take another picture, so I just sat at the computer and made a diagram instead. 🙂

I transplanted a few succulents in the pens. Then came the fun part – furnishing the pens!

Rabbit, hamster, and mouse pen: Hutch: sides from cardboard, roof from wooden craft sticks. Food and water bowls: metal bottle caps, water for water bowl, cardboard bits for food bowl. Straw: Uh… something like really thin raffia.

Turtles’ pen: half of a plastic Easter egg for the pond, a rock inside the pond for an island, water in the pond, and a little ‘moss puff” on the side.