As I posted earlier I had decided to enter the rabbits into the Creston Fall Fair. Last night my friend Lorna and I packed up the bunnies and drove to town. Thankfully I thought to put a tarp under their boxes on the back seat - all three of them peed on the trip. Oh we only took three as Tater and Chester would have been in the same age/breed catagory. Poor (or is it lucky?) Chester got to stay home.

I am happy to report that Hershey placed first in Junior Doe, Gina placed first in Senior Doe, and Tater also placed first in Senior Buck! Now that was much more fun that my fruit mishaps!

 

 
 

Somewhat unexpectantly I've found that I really like to do home canning. I am on a role since Mom got me started last weekend! I've added to the list with peaches, peach jam, blackberry jam, Thai sweet & hot sauce, and some really wonderful Peach BBQ Sauce. Wow is it tasty! 

Things didn't go so well with my first fair entries though. My peach jam didn't set, my peaches were mushy, no comment at all on my rhubarb raspberry jam. But I did get a second with the Nectarines! That is ok - I entered for fun and as a learning experience. Next year should be fun :)





 



 
 

Well I don't quite have the blogging thing down yet... just remembered that I needed to put a few minutes aside and write something! To bring things up to date:

August 28: I bought two more Rex rabbits from a family in Idaho. A nice looking senior broken black buck that should cross well with Gina if she will ever accept! Nope, no luck yet. 'Chester' is a pretty active and handsome fellow though, I am sure Gina will take to him one of these days. I hope.

The other bunny is Hershey - a chocolate otter junior doe. It will be a couple more months before she can be bred but I plan to breed her to Tater when she is ready. Hershey is very sweet - the kids who bred and raised her did a great job!

August 31: My mom Rose came to visit and stay with us for a few days. She didn't really get much time to relax - instead she taught me how to can fruit and jam! We spent hours canning tomatoes, nectarines and peaches, and making various jam concoctions such as strawberry, strawberry rhubarb, strawberry banana, and raspberry rhubarb. We also viewed a property for sale nearby with the hopes of convincing her to move to Creston and buy an acreage that we can live on as well :)

September 1: Last day to enter items into the Creston Fall Fair. I decided to enter Gina, Tater, and Hershey, as well as a jar of nectarines, peaches, rhubarb strawberry jam and peach jam. Why not? First time entering into the fair and first time with rabbits and canning! Gotta start sometime.