Maibock Fete

On Saturday, the Bürgerverein, held it's Maibock Fete. It's a get together in early May for the people in our community to have a BBQ, drink and just be out and about. It has been my first event as the chair person for the Bürgerverein and it was a great success. We had many people coming out to celebrate with us (more then in the past), the weather was good, we received many compliments and just had a good time. Best compliment I received that evening was someone commenting that they are very happy that I took over as chair person and also that my dad would be very proud of what I am accomplishing.

{this moment}

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Garden Update May 14th

It has been cold and rainy for the last week and a half. Sure we had spells of sunshine in between the rain but mainly it was just really uncomfortable to be outside and work in the garden. During the rays of sunshine I did manage to get some work done though. For example today I finally managed to plant the tomato plants...
The garden is well on schedule due to mild April that we had. I am laready harvesting salad and spinach on a more or less daily basis.

How does your garden look right now?

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” 

Mary Oliver

Goodbye

the last 2 of Maya's litter

I took this picture on Monday evening and said goodbye to the last two rabbit babies from Maya's litter. Over the course of 24 hours, from Sunday evening when the first rabbit had died I was down to two rabbits by Monday evening. I could see since Saturday evening that they appeared less lively and it was heartbreaking to see them pass away one after the other. All the sleepless nights that I put in over the last week and they didn't make it. But that is live on a homestead. By Monday night those two were the only once left, they kept hanging in there but were hardly responding to the milk I tried to give them. I knew that they would not make it through the night and so I gave them a last cuddle and said good bye...


On a positive note, Beauty gave birth to a litter of 10 rabbits on Saturday morning. One of them passed away straight away and a second was dead on Sunday morning. Beauty had moved both outside the nest and she appears to be feeding the other 8. The babies are tiny and I am praying that the majority of them will make it. This morning they are 5 days old and so far everything looks ok, the critical part about not feeding them at all has passed, so now I just hope she has enough milk to bring them all through.

Beauty's litter

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