Once was Blind, But now I SEE...

It could only HAPPEN to me! Yep, have a very special little buck. He is the product of my Gold Tipped Chocolate doe and (a different) Chocolate Buck. We believe he is a Chocolate Chin. Insight?? Anyway, his dam decided she did not like the spacious brood hutch she was in and would not eat or drink a darned thing! Nothing, Zero, Ziltch, NOT even CALF MANNA or water with Acid Pack! That is until I tried to foster her 3 remaining weak kits to a proven and remarkable doe, in which I had to cross my fingers. I moved that dam (Cinnamon) into a small 24 X 24 like she was born in and darned if she didn't start eating and drinking like never before!! Now, out of the 3 foster kits who were all very weak only 1 survived! We watched this little fellow very closely. As his eyes opened concern sat in quickly. "Blitz" was fast to nurse he soon had caught up to his foster siblings size and continues to impress me daily.

These pictures have not been changed as I wanted everyone to see our little miracle. I believe his temporary "moon eyes" (ice blue pupils) were caused from a short period of little to no nutrition. Just a theory, but today I proceeded to take new pictures as the unbelievable truth and justification to my theory is revealed....
Unaltered

This kinda stuff... IT ONLY happens to a "True Nut" and yep, that'd be me!

More treasure to behold...

This is (lilac) Bunny's (YEP, that's her name! LOL) 2nd litter. Her first one turned out so very nice. She decided she'd surprise me while I visited A Wool Gathering on Sunday. Now bred with Black I again was hoping for the Chocolates, maybe a black or two... BUT NO! We just had to add in the whites and fawns.... We'll see how fawn is fawn or if we have cream as they come around.... But here are her kids. I'm thinking the one on the bottom left "might" be cream as it's not quite white.

Bundled magic

WOW! Monday I was given a blessing to share...I always seem to be amazed at the broad color spectrum of some of these babies. Pearl (Chocolate Pearl) delighted me with a nice large litter of 9 (she had 11) from the deep chocolate buck Choco. I just can not seem to get over this. I was expecting a lot of Chocolates and (hopeful) Chocolate Pearls, not sure on the later since pearls wait to get their color later around 7-8 weeks. BUT, the blacks?! They make me think SEAL. Is this even possible?! AND HONESTLY?! What is that greyish? A smoke or a Lilac? UGH! So much for genetic predictions...LOL

A visit to Clifton Mill ...

A days visit to The Wool Gathering meant breakfast must be in order... AFTER-ALL, who could visit all those vendors on an empty stomach? NOT me! I was shocked at the size of their pancakes, they come with a warning that if you can eat 2 the 3rd one is on them! Imagine that. Now, had I been thinking I'd have taken a picture of those babies... YEP, Aunt Gail ordered them. LOL, She knew fully their size as they'd eaten at the Mill prior to this but she'd "forgotten" just how large they were! The waiter brought these out and stacked on a plate of 14 inches in diameter were 2 edge to edge pancakes. She only dented a quarter of the stack! Can you imagine pancakes that size?!

Anyway, I had to take some pictures of the Mill. Beautiful! Apparently, they also do a tremendous Christmas display complete with a Train on the grounds and Santa. Now what was funny is as many of you know I'm pretty limited in my flexibility do to the number of surgeries I've endured. BUT, I know that in order to get some really good pictures you've got to be willing to take a risk, sometimes going where the shot is. RIGHT?!

Well, I'm sure Mom wanted to scold me as I climbed up on a lean to fence and peered over the 10 foot picket fence to get the last shot... I just couldn't resist. I had to try!


Mom thinks in my spare time I should take a photography class. I don't think I'm that good to consider it, nor do I have a lot of spare time.

The busy gardeners...

Worked diligently this year to make the gardens beautiful and a delight to enjoy! Expect anything less? Not in this garden. :-)

Zinnias and Marigolds seemed to try to steal the show so they thought...


Coupled with the bounty were Cosmos... (possibly a new favorite of mine).










And 1 of the Butterfly bushes.. Compete with Butterfly :-)















Incredible Dadila's to behold ...

























left with the bee's working overtime in the "Live-forever's"...



Yet we must say Now but a sad good-bye till next years gardens... as the clouds usher in fall tonight with their hearty blown streams of wind....

Munkie's done what?!

Brought home a darn Ingunna! Given to him by a "friend" we had to make sure of course with his history... so the following day it was off to get this little lady set up with supplies....

Here Andi (future dil potentially) is holding her "Lizzy" while the work on her new habitat is being completed.

Sassy Roxie

Bet ya had no idea I had ventured into this beautiful species... A green cheek Conure! She is hubby's buddy, spoiled for sure. She has been with us since May and they get along so nicely when they play... LOL

What is really funny that while Roxie sasses all day long until her buddy gets home from work MY Cockatiel (Glitch) thinks she's a Nextel Boost! I couldn't help but to laugh when Glitch learned how to make the "beep, beep" of hubby's work phone.

My upgraded future....

Lots is always going on with me and anyone who knows me is aware of that. BUT, I bet they don't know this...lol
Last month I ventured into a tech upgrade, and while it's taken me a bit to adjust I do believe I'm pretty happy with my new HTC HD phone. It takes some amazing photos as well as video's, I've just had to adjust to the "slide" feature of this baby. It even has a virtual "Mag" style light that mimics the real thing, hubby so wants one of these now... None-the-less, here is 1 of my first photos (Mom's garden of course) using the panoramic feature. Not to bad for a first....

The beautiful Moon flower...