SheriM - Too Stubborn to Stop Dreamin' - SURPRISE!!!

Thanks everybody. She really is wonderful addition to our herd...oh, and yes, she WILL be staying! :)

The new chicks are doing well and growing like weeds. So far, they're all getting along but there's such a difference in size, I may have to separate them as they get older so the little ones don't get picked on. Or should I say "pecked" on? :)
 
Awwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!

The new baby is just beautiful!! Congratulations!!!!!
 
Haha, SheriM, our 10x10 dog run that we originally bought used for Nacho our stud (cost us $250, but they're well over $600 new) was used for almost the whole year as a chicken run for the big girls LOL
 
Awwww.....she looks a little like my Ginger Peach! Darker, and floppier ears, though. I just want to smooch her!
 
Thanks to having that blasted drain in for almost a month, the stupid thing got infected so now we have to postpone the start of chemo by 3 weeks. That does have it`s good points, since it gives me more time to get things done around here, but at the same time it means finishing the treatments later in the year, which I wanted to avoid. Oh well, I am putting the time to good use. I got a lot of fencing done today and was finally able to move my junior bucks to a pen with a bit of grass. Tomorrow, I`m going to do some work on the chicken run. The poor hens have been stuck indoors since I got them. Depite being scared of me, they are starting to come up close behind me on my way out the door so they can peek out at the world out there. I know they want to be out in it and I want them out there just as badly.
 
Aww poor little chickies!

Sorry to hear your treatment has to be postponed, but at the same time, glad you're able to get more things done.
 
I was cutting the grass yesterday and got off the mower to move a fence post that was lying in the grass. When I lifted it up, a small dark shape darted out. I only caught it out of the corner of my eye but managed to track it till it stopped several feet away. I went over, somehow thinking it was a frog, but it turned out to be a tiny little baby bunny! It was hunkered down in the grass, trying to be as inconspicuous as possible, but I knew if it moved and the dogs saw it that would be game over, so I sent the dogs away and waited for the bunny to hop off. I waited and waited but it didn't move. That's when I started to worry that maybe I'd hurt it when I moved the post, pinched or squished it somehow.

I asked DH to get me some gloves so I could pick it up and check on it, but then got a better idea. (I didn't really want to touch it and put human scent on it). I picked up a stick and gently prodded the little bunny butt. Nothing. If if wasn't for the occasional blink, I'd have thought it was dead. Really worried now, I poked it a little harder and then the funniest thing happened. The little thing turned around, sat up on its rear and put its front paws on the stick. It just sat there for a minute, looking up at me, then turned and hopped a few feet away.

It was the strangest thing!! I was still worried the dogs would spot it, so I went behind it and tapped the stick on the ground. It hopped away again but not far. I had to tap a couple more times to get it to move off into the deeper brush on the edge of the driveway. It finally went into the dense undergrowth and I went back to mowing, but I keep thinking about that tiny little wild creature who took a moment to say hello one bright spring morning.
 
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