Our new foster bunny arrived today as well. He's a harlequin colored lionhead buck. He was found in Brainerd, but the person who found him couldn't keep him. With several offers of people looking to take him in permanently, I offered to take him in and continue searching for his rightful owners. Finder told me I could have him, so my mom picked him up yesterday and Tony picked bunny up from my mom after work today. My mom is madly in love with bunny. So far no responses to any of the ads I've placed trying to find his owners. I'm not giving up anytime soon though. My plan was to keep the ads up at least 30 days, after which his quarantine here will be up and we can decide what to do with him.
Peter Parker (Spiderman) is set to go to his new home on Tuesday, and the other person I was supposed to meet with Diana and Raisinet has to reschedule. As of Tuesday the August colony litter will be ready to go. The younger colony litter left the nest box today and is now racing through the building and exploring the big food bowl.
I touched base with the breeder that has MooMoo. She did get several successful fall offs, but asked if MooMoo can stay there and she will care for her throughout the pregnancy and delivery, handle babies, and wean kits, and at 7-8 weeks old she will pick the one she wants as payment for stud services, and return MooMoo and the remaining kits to me. I admit I was hesitant at first. What if something were to go wrong? I've never had a litter I didn't have my hands on practically every day. It's a weird concept to me. But I know this breeder and I know she'll take good care of MooMoo and the babies. So I agreed. Miss MooMoo is set to have babies around October 8th, which means she should be returning with some babies around the end of November or early December. How exciting!
I am still thinking a lot on how to plant the half-circle garden on the west side of the house. My mind is alive with ideas, and I want it to be a beautiful place that draws you in. I think I'd like to make a blueberry plant and a currant plant the backdrop on either side of the window, and then have a trellis under the window for peas and beans (which will eventually be removed when the two bushes reach maturity and crowd out the sunlight there). There will be a shepherd's hook and a bird feeder (probably dual hummingbird feeders). A pathway with arch opposite the half circle through the center to go past the bushes and allow refilling of the feeders. The front space between the fence of the half circle and the pathway behind will be full of herbs. Perennial herbs planted directly in the ground, but mostly potted herbs that can come back in the house over winter (since not many herbs are winter safe for zone 3-4). The two overgrown silver mound plants I have will be planted at either end of the pathway between the path and the bushes, since they're OK with partial shade, so as the bushes grow they won't bother the silver mound... assuming it survives. It's looking pretty rough. Already checking prices online it's going to be a fairly expensive endeavor, so it will have to be bear bones to start with. Chicken wire and cheap wooden stakes for fencing, our own manure and compost for soil amendments, and whatever mulch we have left over from the other garden projects. I may not even be able to put in the paving stones for the walkway this year, but as long as I can get the live plants in, and some kind of fencing to keep the birds out, it should be alright for this fall.