It's not all fun & games!!!

This is a tally so far. We're not done yet, but I wanted to get this logged.

This year's additions:

• 7 baby bunnies (1st litter)
• 5 baby bunnies (2nd litter)
• 10 more baby bunnies (3rd litter)
• 21 White Plymouth rocks for meat
• 2 barred rocks
• 2 easter eggers
• 2 Rhode Island reds
• 2 silkie bantams
• 3 turkey poults
• 1 rouen duckling
• 5 chicks hatched by Floppy
• 5 chicks hatched by Goldrush
• LOTS of seedlings

This year's losses:

• 1 adult doe rabbit obtained August 09 (she refused to breed)
• 7 baby bunnies (1st litter; 1st time mom, and she killed them)
• 5 baby bunnies at birth, 1 several weeks later (2nd litter)
• 1 silkie bantam (pecked to death)
• 3 turkey poults (mycotoxicosis)
• 1 rouen duckling (didn't take to eating or drinking in the first 24h)
• LOTS of seedlings

This year's miracles:

• We had TWINS hatch in Goldrush's batch. TWIN CHICKS!!! This is a Very Rare Thing!!!
• Hubba got an assistant manager
• Hubba allowed me to bring a new kitten onto the home
  

This year's obstacles:

• A death in the family
• A family member that cracked some vertebrae in his neck & spine
• A family member that cut off his thumb
• A family member that escaped murder in a home invasion
• A sewage flood in our home
• The ENTIRE five of us coming down with the stomach flu within 38 hours of each other
• Hubba lost his assistant manager

This year's WAY behind projects:

• New rabbit hutches
• Weeding the garden
• The garden
• Butchering animals
• Schooling
• Painting
• Fixing the chicken coop & run

This year's accomplishments:

• New flooring downstairs
• Front porch restained
• I have ended my daycare business
• I have a part time job that will net more take home pay in about 1/5 of the time
• I have another part time job as a greeting card rep that I do about once a month for one store & quarterly for another
• I stayed out of the mental institution just one more year