Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Is this the place?, 0 by Buns

Buns wrote:
When I first started on the internet, many many years ago, I was in a chat room with fellow rabbit breeders and TexasBuns was just a natural name. Heck, I raised Bunnies and lived in Texas, how simple. Since I have branched out to other places I find that it has many connotations so I normally always explain. No, I don't have buns as big as Texas, but if I sit here long enough, they will be, lol.

I will put up pictures of my rabbits and cavys later. They all live in cages and I also have worm beds under the rabbits. These little fellows make the best ferterlizer. Between the rabbits and the worms I come up with wonderful worm castings and rabbit poop is probably the best poop for plants. It doesn't burn, you can take it from under the cages to a pot and plant right in it. The brugs in front of the rabbits love it.

The shavings from the cavys (guinea pigs) are put into areas next to the fence and act as a dyke from the water running from the lot behind me and a wonderful place for plants, they love it. My friend Ken swears by the combo cavy/shavings+rabbit poo watered in from the top for his brugs. His are the greenest I have ever seen and the leaves are huge. One day I sent him home with a pile of "sticks" and he said it was too dark and he was too tired to finish planting them all so he just stuck them in the pile of shavings. He now calls it his Brug Forrest. (couple of photos below of ken and his brug forrest, excuse the dark fuzzy photos, I am trying to find the right settings on this new camera. It was almost dark the evening I took the photos. Ken is 6'5" and it is only April. His brugs will be huge this year.)

The animals all get along or they don't stay here, and none seem to leave. My vet says when he dies he wants to come back as one of my cats. My old hen has adopted the goat and they sit together in the afternoons. I got her 5 baby chicks to keep her company and she said, pfffft, I'll stay with Bubba.

The cats and the baby chicks were a little bit of a challenge but I only had to squirt Blue with the hose a couple of times and he left them alone. Sometimes if a baby bunny escapes Blue will round it up for me and sit next to it until I come into the barn and then he yells at me until I get it.

And cmalon, my Itty Bitty Kitty outgrew his name years ago. A friend once pointed out that my cats don't have names they have descriptions for names. LOL, Itty bitty Kitty, Fluffy butt, Blondie, Blue, etc etc etc. I guess she never met Fred.

I wish they would be a little tougher on the coons and possums and skunks but they seem to mingle with them also until I set the trap and yell, all aboard for a trip to visit your cousins. Not sure where my husband has taken them all but some of the stories are hysterical, esp the one where he got his glove caught in the door when releasing a skunk. I bet he never sweated so much or stood so still.

And no, I've not dreamed about the brugs YET, probably because I am also a night owl and by the time I get to bed I crash. But now that you have mentioned it, I probably will.

Oh no, I just got a call from a lady in the neighborhood saying, come to my plant sale, lots of us are getting together to have one, somebody stop me!