Rabbits

We have rabbits.

I had rabbits when I was a kid, but they were of the soft, colorful, caged variety. These are scratched-up, clover-eating brown rabbits that live under the shed in our back yard.

"Peter" is the name for whichever rabbit is in the back yard at the time. It's not original, but it works. Peter is also the name of a specific rabbit. The one with an earring. There is also smaller rabbit with a bum back foot, and a blemish-free, clean-looking rabbit. I call them Paul or Mary, depending on my mood.

Is that an earring?!

We also have neighborhood ducks. The neighborhood ducks are just normal-looking, green-headed ducks, but the lady across the street has a duck I've never seen before.

I don't know what our neighbor calls her duck, but we call it Jimi...as in Jimi Hendrix (maybe in his graying years).

That's the fauna update for my neighborhood, at least until the next visit to my next door neighbor's wildlife park, I mean house!

The Herb Garden

The Herb Garden: Week 6

The Herb Garden: Week 4

The Herb Garden: Week 2

Holly is supervising the first harvest

The Herb Garden: Week 1

Seems that whenever my mom and stepfather visit, I end up with a new garden. Sometimes I have to do the planting, but they always buy...which makes planting seem like peanuts!

A couple years ago, they bought the plants for a sage garden we'd been wanting. We ended up with about 10 different sages! The garden was our pride and joy...and then we moved across the country and had to leave it behind.

In our new home, we were in sore need of an herb garden (ours went the way of the sage garden)...so they bought us an herb garden. And the pots we needed to house the little garden.