Woolie Creations Angora Rabbits

I have been cleaning out the barn today and fixing up pens. After many years they need a little work on them :) I have been putting rabbit poop on the garden and it is coming along nicely! There are baby squash the size of my thumb on some of the plants! Yippee. I hope to do a lot of canning this season, and will give making pickles a try also. If anyone has a good recipe let me know. I may even try pickling green tomato's this year. There are several of the tiny tomato plants coming on. Hopefully we will have plenty of vegie's and meat to last awhile.

Above is the first picture of Prima's babies. She was bred to Sinclair my big Blue Eyed White buck so they should be nice sized. I will keep the Blue girl and place the others. They will be great woolers as Prima gave me 8.3 oz. of wool this clipping! That is a lot of wool for a French Angora!

I went out yesterday to feed the bunnies and found a new pet hanging out! I looked down and there was a strange stick laying by the door. Normally I would not think much of it but it is getting that time of year again..... It was a pretty, 4' long King Snake. He was half under the door of the old chicken pen. I had a pan laying beside where he was, grabbed that and pinned his head down. To my surprise he didn't struggle or try to get away. I reached down and gently picked him up behind his head. I went walking to the house and called for my daughter. She came out and said "Oh BOY"!  She has small pens to keep lizards and critters and got one of those. We took him up on the mountain a few miles away and turned him loose in the woods. I don't mind King Snakes around just not in my rabbit barn! He was hunting mice I am sure. :)