Sad and Happy Day

On Monday the 4th Nov 2013 we had to farewell our Peter rabbit.

6 Jan 2008 to 4 Nov 2013

 For the past month or so we had been letting Peter out to free roam in

the garden.  Here he surrounded by the cats.

 Hanging out with Poppy.

On the night we farewelled Peter, I discovered the 2 eggs had

hatched that Snowtop had been sitting on.  We turned the rabbit hutch into a

chicken nursery and here she is with her two little chicks.

Spring is coming

Hard to believe it is August already.  

The sun has been shining today and all the animals have been enjoying it.

Chloe and Poppy

 Poppy and Arnie kissing

Signs of spring in the garden

Arnie and Casey

and a rare night when Chloe ventured upstairs to share the

heater with Arnie and Poppy.

Update 2013

It has been months since I last updated this blog.

Casey turned 14 on the 10th March and is looking fit and well for her age.

 Here she is on her birthday.  

Both her brother Joe and sister Elle are still good as well.

 Chloe on the door frame for the chicken run.

Arnie, Casey and Chloe

The dogs enjoying a walk and swim at Bethells beach.

Spring

Spring has arrived at Fantail Ridge with the arrival

of 2 little fluff balls.

 Mother hen is very protective so it has been 

really hard to get photos.

On a very windy day I took the dogs to Fisherman's Rock

Whangaparoa. 2 Sep 2012

 Here they are nicely posing.

An earlier attempt which turned out to be a very good photo.

Winter

A beautiful weekend in Fantail Ridge

 Not a cloud in the sky

 Poppy enjoying the sun.

 Poppy and Casey

 Poppy and Shilo at the letterbox

 

Miss Shilo by the rabbit hutch.

Rocky

Rocky gave us a scare 2 weeks ago when he appeared late and

was shaking like a leaf.  He couldn't stand and he had a congested chest.

I ended up taking him to the afterhours Vet and he was given pain relief.

The next day I dropped him off at our Vet and his pain was managed.  

It was the week before the long weekend and as the vet fees were expensive, I

had to cancel my plans of going away.  Rocky also had antibiotics and I am the chief 

medicine giver in our household.

Rocky is good now.  Here he is with Casey and Shilo.

These 3 are good and lie and wait when I sit on the seat at the top of the

driveway.  Poppy is somewhere ahead.

Cats, Dogs and Quilts

Chloe has her own quilt now.

Poppy also has her own quilt for these cold winter nights.

Here she is in bed with Ted.

Chloe and Jake on her quilt.