Summer has returned.

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Two days ago, the high was 50°.  Yesterday it was 70°.  Today it is nearly 80°.  Shifting right along.  With windows open and just a fan on slow, it was 68° upstairs.  Downstairs it was 67°.  That won't last.  I closed the upstairs windows and turned on one ac.  Nothing to be done downstairs, it was all shut up, as it has been for a long time.

The ducks were quite happy to be let out.  When I leave their food outside, getting them out is easy.  Though, now that they have a favorite hideway, deep in overgrown bush, they really like being out.  Hmm, I may move their food and water closer.  There is a nice giant pine which would offer sky cover.

The girls were fed next.  Litter was, is, next, but that spot of heat hit me like a ton of bricks.  I came back in, brushed the teeth, then was heading to the litter boxes when a wave of exhaustion hit.  My body exploded into heat, as if a smoldering heap suddenly hit by gas and a match.  A heatscope would expose a flaming corona around me... if true of color, it would be blue flames.

I will post, rest, and cool.  Then hit the litter and take a cool shower then soak.  The bubbles in the water won't be from  beans!  :p  Oh, and today is the day!  A date with delight, if all business.  Rabbits.  Looking them over.  As well, a bit of shopping and looking.  Pricing potential caging material in one last place.

And grocery shopping.  Rather than eating out, from time to time, I figured out costs and am buying better for less.  Compare three bigger fast food meals... a full entree, sides, and drink, plus an extra minor entree... and even a steak.  But grilled brots, chicken, hamburger, hot dogs, hamburgers, and whatever is vastly less expensive.  Any two of those, and trimmings, are vastly cheaper... except steaks.  Throw in a side of baked beans, potato salad, or coleslaw, or even fries as you drive by, and... you save a bundle.  Plus, it really is better.  Even a few times a week and it really adds up.  More for tools!  Actually, It'll just keep me from zeroing every month.  Probably.

I am really hoping to do the rabbits yet this month.  If not, next.  Beside the cages, together and up, I need double waterers, hay feeders and hay, feeders and feed, water bottles filled partly and frozen, nesting boxes (these can wait until September or October, no breeding until it cools), and cage dividers.  At least.

I am probably going with the 6' x 16" shelving.  Depending on how many unrelated lines of rabbits are available... I am sure of two?  I will want two to... six or eight? cages, each cage holds two rabbits, each cage costs about $91... I have already purchased fasteners and tools, plus have wood stock for shelving and base legs.  I, obviously, won't be building more than a few at a time, three or four max.  I would really like four cages, and to expand one way or another, quickly.  If I can go with 24" depth and 12" height, the price would be less than $70 per.  The height is more the concern.  But a mix and match wit 24" depth and 16" height would still be close to $70.  Ugh.

Excited.  Not just for food, or the processes, but the whole program.  You know goats really are next.  A few milk/meat mixes to start.  Probably never more.  In a year or two, if this works out.  It is a different world with animals in it.  A better world.  Oh, I probably won't milk them.  Just, I want that left open, as a potential.  Or to allow others to access at their leisure and risk.  Later.