rabbits, mushrooms, and a new car

It has been a stressful few weeks, our car blew up and is still waiting at the bottom of our driveway to be towed to the house. We drove to West Virginia and bought my dream car, a 2004 Subaru Forester. It is already the perfect farm car, with so much storage space for markets. Unfortunately, because of the payments (added on top of our broken down car's payments) and higher insurance, Jonathan has to give up his extra day off from our day job, which means less time to do farm work. It could be worse though, hopefully we will find a way to sell the old car soon enough. We spent today working on more mushroom baskets and weeding the garden which was completely over run. I wrote about the mushrooms and shared more photos on the farm blog, here. The rabbits are growing fast and I love these spotty babies.

Well, it is late and my comfy bed is calling me. Goodnight.

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Rose's spotty babies

Amy's spotty babies

Amy with her kits

This is a rabbit we have saved for my sister, Amy. He is quite handsome and survived the great escape.

the new ride

freshly weeded garden

birds (we have to clip their wings soon)

Until next time,

Angela Kelly

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