Update on Jane (our rabbit): Last weekend, we decided to put rocks over the burrow Jane was digging to prevent any real escape attempts. Tuesday night, when Chris put her back in her hutch, he checked the hole and could barely touch the end of the burrow. On Wednesday, Jane started to fill the burrow back in.


The block layers finished the foundation on Wednesday. Now we have to figure out exactly how proceed from here. When talking to the inspector about our plan to lay the floor, I found out he wouldn't have approved, and to fix what we were going to do would have been expensive. So now we have to rethink things a bit. Really, we just need to make a habit of calling the inspector and going over every little detail to make sure we won't make any mistakes.

The past few nights, I've been waking up in the middle of the night only to lie awake thinking about construction. Yuck.

Much of the grass in the pastures is going to seed. I love to see the tiny flowers throw a muted haze of purple above the grass.

Our chicken, Pluck, is molting. Her feathers are easily found all over the yard. She looks like she was chewed up and spit out. I am just glad that the bare spot on her back will finally have a covering again soon.

The pond is leaking. A little internet research revealed that the 3-4 weeks of dry weather we had and subsequent drying of the pond probably caused the bottom to crack in places. Any rain we get seems to soak right into the ground, now, leaving the shallow end dry. If we had any livestock, the animals would probably be able to pack the ground back down enough to hold water again... But since we're not ready for livestock, we might try to throw some leaves in this fall to help create a seal.