I have done a fair amount of traveling in my life.  Just this year I have been to El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico, Belize, The Caymans, The Netherlands, and Germany.  During my travels, I am always impressed to see how households supplement their food and income by producing something for themselves.  It could be said that [...]

We will never be sure if it was indeed a fox that caused Watson’s premature death, but that is our hypothesis.  It seems awfully coincidental that two days after Bunny’s cardiac arrest, we discover that a fox has been lurking around the property.
Today this same fox has been apprehended.  It is not that we have [...]

We think we might have found the creature who did in bunny, albeit indirectly.  He’s been lurking in the shadows of the Piscataway Acres animal pens.  Yesterday was the first human sighting of horrific Mr. Fox, though we are almost certain he was sighted before by Watson the rabbit.  It is not unusual for rabbits [...]

Watson, known to his friends as “Bunny,” was buried today in a couple of family members’ Delawarean garden with humans, pigs, and a dog in attendance.   He will be remembered.
Some things I remember about Bunny:

Feeding him raisins.
Feeding him carrots.
Chasing him back to his pen when he cleverly got loose.
The silkiness of his years.
Seeing him [...]

When one chooses to raise animals, death is a sad but real experience that one must go through.  Today was a sad day.
I went out as I normally do to feed the animals and make sure everyone was secure for the night.  I had some carrot ends that would have been a treat for Watson, [...]