Half Marathon

Alex and I just finished a half marathon. This time, I left the rocket shoes at home and did not beat Alex by 2 minutes. He also did not come in just behind a pregnant lady.

Here are a couple pictures.

St. Joseph Animal Hospital Crew. From left, me in red balloon pants apparently, Gilly, Heather, Mary, and Susannah

Post race. Tired! But feeling oh so good. 

More pictures to come, I'm sure.

Spring pictures and a casualty

We have finally had a hit. I found a half eaten baby bunny this morning when I did the farm chores. It has been a good two years and I guess I figured we would face this problem eventually with all the cats I see roaming around the neighborhood. Unfortunately, there is not much to be done short of building a predator-proof enclosure or going back to the cage model, neither of which is appealing at this point. So, we will wait and see what happens.

The remaining bunnies are happy and healthy:

For Easter this year we were able to get together with a few friends and attempt to decorate eggs po Ukrainsku (sometimes Polish phrases work so much better - it means in the Ukrainian way). It consists of using wax pens to protect areas of the egg you don't want to be dyed, and then repeating the process a few times with different colored dyes. There was some hugging involved.

I got to hold baby James

The apricot is blooming! I was going to try to hand pollinate this year since last year we had no pollinators and no fruit. So far, I have been frustrated by the rain.

poor little rain beaten apricot blossoms

Finally, I was bit by a cat (again!). This time, no cool pictures except to show that my finger swelled up a fair amount.

you can see where the canines punctured my skin. 

I couldn't flex my finger very well for a week.

My dad sent me Kevlar gloves so I will not keep getting bitten. I think he secretly would never hire me to work for him because I would keep getting hit by a steel beam or something.

He is probably right.