Sunday, April 14, 2013

Snakey and Buns


7 am
                Snakey came out last night so I held him for a bit. It was nice, he is so smooth and he was quite active. I guess I’ll feed him today if I see him emerge again. And buns are doing pretty well. I lost a couple from Ebony’s litter last week and one from Ella’s. It is odd, Ella does not enter the nest to nurse them, but I think they are actually getting fed bc she leans into the nest. I suppose it means they are not getting to her hindmost teats which could be a problem, but they seem to be growing, though slowly, and they are doing ok. I did move her 2 white ones to Ebony’s box. I sure wish I had a fawn male. I have not sexed this year’s buns yet, so we’ll see about the fawn/grey ones. If one is male I may well keep it. and there are 2 grey so I may keep one of them, too. I probably need to choose between Ella and
Ebony and Excelsior and Ethyl. And then decide if I want to keep both Bart and Dylan or replace one with a fawn male.
                Tonight I am going to hear music with a friend. She got tickets and then her husband had to go away. I hope it will be good. I must finish giving M&M feedback to those who wrote them; I should do that this morning. And I did some tidying yesterday, but it is not at all evident, so I’ll have to do more. Especially sort laundry which is a reasonably mindless busy task. When I woke up, I opened the curtain and a lovely bit of sun shone in, but it has now all clouded over. Still I think it is supposed to get sunny later and it is supposed to be warm. Yes. That is needed. OK time to do buns and take psillium and I guess I’d better do my stretches as my back has been bad.
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Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Baby Bunny Saga


7 am
                Several oddities: first that I am writing at all, it has certainly been a while; next I am sitting on our exercise ball which the chiropractor suggested I try – much better for my back; next I am in the bedroom as that is the brightest room in the house, everywhere else being quite gloomy. Actually the greatest “oddity” is that I am actually in something of a good mood. Anyway not inordinately gloomy as I have been for quite a while. Probably several reasons (list day): I took my 2nd antidepressant last night. If I forget during the day, I usually don’t take it bc I don’t want it to interfere with sleep. Which means I often only take the one. And next reason – I have gone back to taking my multivitamin and am even taking an iron pill each day. For about 2 weeks I was so tired I could barely walk up the stairs at work. It felt reminiscent of when I was so sick and dehydrated and could not function. I remember being barely able to make it around the triangle up the road on a walk. So anyhoo, I am feeling somewhat human.
                As for the day: chiro at 9:45, then back here to await Comcast coming to fix the Tigger-chewed cable. Before that is the usual: psillium, stretches, bunnies, breakfast. Then I would like to get in some spinning and of course there are the barleys to grade. Lovely. And I am thinking of making quiche for supper. I need to get the rest of the meat from my neighbor’s freezer. And I really should just buy a little chest freezer. Of course maybe that will have to wait until the basement and garage get done. Speaking of which, I don’t think the worker will be able to finish the basement. He got a “real” job and is pretty busy. So I think I will call back the guy that I kind of blew off and hope for the best. I also have a lot of fair stuff to focus on. Things are somewhat falling apart, or at least that is how it feels. Mainly bc the person who originally volunteered bowed out of Drop In Spin so I have to step in and find volunteers and organize them etc. Blah.
                I should describe the Baby Bun Saga, even though it happened last week. Thurs I got home late after driving all over delivering brochures. I arrived at about 5 to find L here, and we went in, then I remembered I should check the 2 buns that were overdue for their babes. Ebony had a nice batch in her box, with plenty of pulled hair. In Ella’s cage, however, there was one very cold babe half-way through the wire on the side – halfway into the next cage. And another babe in the next cage, also cold. I got them and put them in my shirt with low expectations, then looked down and there were more on the ground. All in all 9 babes scattered about. She had not used the nest box and all had squirmed their way out of the cage and around on the ground. A couple were stirring a tiny bit so I had some hope for them. I gathered them all, and brought them in. We got the heating pad, then L and I put them in various places on our bodies, tucked here and there to try to warm then up. None were stiff at least. And bit by bit, all but one warmed and started wiggling! We kept them on the heating pad while I dealt with the other nest box, and put together a nest box for them. And then I brought them out, and held Ella on the nest so they could nurse. I had to do that for the next several days. Ebony was good right away, but it took Ella a while. She seems to have the hang of things now, though yesterday after they nursed, both dragged a still-attached baby out of the nest box as they left (not their fault, it just happens) so I have still been bringing the boxes in, even though it is quite warm out. And now I must bring them out for their morning feed. Success! At least so far.
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Tuesday, April 02, 2013

anemic


7 am
                I have done my stretches but nothing else. I don’t want to do anything else. Psillium bunnies fire. Those things need to be done. Psillium is yuck. Bunnies will be hard bc the waters are frozen (it is a chilly 20 degrees out) and fire will be hard bc I have no more kindling and the fire has been out for days so it will be starting from stone cold. So I need to gird myself by writing. It that especially girding?             I am feeling better this morning than I have for several days. I think I was anemic. Perhaps bc I stopped taking my multivitamin. That was bc I started reading that taking calcium is not good, and I had read that Twinkies book that talked about how all our vitamins come from manufacturers in China. Just seemed like I didn’t want to take it all anymore. But I think I had better go back to the multi. Maybe take just one Ca++ per day instead of 2. Anyway I’ve been really dragging around. Yesterday I felt like I could barely walk up the stairs. I managed to “run” both Fri and Mon but it was just walking and just for ½ hour. So yesterday I got a Phili steak sandwich (it took forever and was not that great to tell the truth, so I don’t suppose I’ll do that again, but I didn’t think I could walk all the way to the town shops). Then for supper I made myself liver. I had thawed some rabbit organs over a week ago. I was pretty sure they would have spoiled, but they were still nicely sealed in their bag and they were still fine. So I sautéd them with onions and added tomato and it was delicious. I honestly did feel better by evening.
                Now how will I spend today? I was trying to remember how I spent last Tuesday bc I don’t think I did much grading. And hadn’t I already turned Mom’s tax stuff in? Well I will have to look at what I wrote in my pages. I sorted all the orange stuff for spinning on Sunday. Well, I can’t remember. Speaking of the orange stuff, I did start spinning it. Very fine and very tight. Meaning it is going to take a long time to spin. Well, let’s hope it turns out nice. It is certainly muted and soft. It will be fine. I will do some of that today. The other biggies are to keep working on the FAFSA that I finally got back to on Sunday, and to do fair stuff that has certainly lagged lately. One thing I must do is try writing up a letter to Drop-In spin volunteers so I can show it to the committee chair tonight at spinning.
                Wow I don’t know exactly why lately I am so impatient. I am impatient with myself. It is since my surgery. One would think that maybe a trauma like that would make one more patient. But I am not. Or maybe, I have thought this before, it has to do with butt burn. It hurts so damn much. Thank god not for long, but having periodic intense pain like that does something also. I am feeling impatient now. Odd bc I also just want to sit a lot. So what is that about? I am trying to figure out a weekend that I can go to Temenos. The fellow working downstairs is coming this weekend to do the ceiling, so maybe next weekend would work. We shall see.
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