Happy Easter!

Happy Easter, one follower!

Because it's easter I had to make a bunny post. I haven't seen my big baby boy is such a long time, so while I was at his home I got a couple pictures of him. Mayor is a bunny that I bought after my guinea pig, Pudge passed away. I'm not quite sure what kinda of rabbit he is, but he is definitely a big boy, I think he might have flemish giant rabbit in him.

This is my Mayor boy <3 he weighs about 17 - 20 pounds. 

Poor little guy had something wrong with his ear before I bought him, and one stands up straight and the other flops over.

My favorite things about easter are:

CREAM EGGS!!! Nothing more delicious than this right right here! 

Cute Stuffed Animals! Truth is I love getting stuffed animals anytime of the year, but I LOVE the giant ones they bring out for holidays!

Mini Eggs! I'm not a big chocolate fan, so easter really isn't my thing, but I love these little guys. 

 The things I ABSOLUTELY HATE about easter:

Dying chicks awful colors in-order to sell them and make money.  Most of these little guys will go to a home for a couple of days because they were just so cute until it's figured out how much work they are and they either die or get taken else where. PS PEOPLE REGULAR COLORED BABY CHICKS ARE JUST AS CUTE! I prefer them yellow...who wants a bright blue chicken...

SAME THING! I just think dying animals crazy colors is wrong, just wrong. Sure if your child asks to dye their hair pink, let them, but these poor bunnies did not ask to be blue, orange and pink. Again, they are just as cute normal, this is just around way for pet stores to make more money off a holiday.

And last I hate big creepy easter bunnies...seriously, who wants this hopping around. 

I Could Feel The Heat On My Face

So I come from a small town, island actually. Population 2400-ish and most of them are crazy or quirky. I am probably considered both by quite a few people. Around here I guess you could say we are hickish, but most small town people are.
For WEEKS I have been itchy and waiting impatiently to get out into my yard and burn grass. Yes, I get overly excited to light my yard on fire. This year I had alot of motivation to do it, because we are putting in a garden and hopefully a coop for the chickens!! I am not going down without a fight about those chickens and I will do just about anything to get them.
So why burn grass? I'm not exactly sure, I was always told that we burn the old tall grass so that the new green grass could come up easier. This year we also did it so that we could clear the space, save from mowing through thick dead grass and could easily see the branches and thrown bushes we need to clear before putting in the garden and coop.

Here are some photos from the process! 

This is the area where the garden will be, can't wait to start clearing thorn bushes and turning soil!

Supposedly fire season was over, so we could get a fine, but there were quite a few other families burning their yards as well. I doubt it will be a big problem because we don't live in a heavily wooded area and we had 4 people tending the flames. 

Where I'm hoping to put the chicken coop. 

Nothing like enjoying the sunset while burning your yard.

More posts to come as more work gets done!

What If We Were All Equal?

Q: What if we were all equal? 

I'm guessing that your first thought jumps to either male vs. female or race vs race, maybe even rich vs. poor, but that's not exactly the pinpoint of this blog post. 

I started thinking about this earlier tonight while watching "In Time" and the quote "the poor die and the rich don't live" struck me. Not just because I think it has a really cool ring to the saying, but because it almost makes the two equal and not at the same time. Which is better? Living a long life, slow, carefully and bored OR living a short life, living completely in the moment, knowing that those minutes mean something. Each side sees the other and feels some sort of envy. Which is more important to you? Living as long as you possibly can OR living your life to the fullest? But it's just a movie. 

While watching the movie I was scanning my facebook newsfeed as always - anyone that knows me, knows that I can't stay off facebook for more than a couple hours, if that - a friend had shared this photo, which made my though of equality grow. 

My main reason for this post is "What is we were all equal as living beings?" This isn't a peta post, I like my bacon and steaks, but what if we had equal respect for each living thing? Let's face it without the creatures before the human on the pyramid figure, we would not be where we are, we would be non-existant, dead. So why do we feel we need to be better than everything below us? Don't get me wrong, I hate bugs and spiders, but with out them we wouldn't have the larger creatures that I like, such as birds, fish, frogs, etc. AND without them we wouldn't have bigger birds, snakes...etc...etc...etc. We all need to eat and something needs to die so we can do that, whether it be a plant or an animal. I just don't understand why we can't treat them with the same respect and superiority we do with other humans - also I know that some humans definitely don't know how to respect other humans, but just for this post pretend they do. 

I am one of those people that treats their pets like they treat their child, maybe alittle less, cause I doubt I will tie my child out to the dog house like I do my shepardx, but my pomeranian definitely has the spoiled qualities I had as a child. 

But what if we all stopped and thought about it for a second, about how much living like we do kills the lower things on the pyramid. I think many people forget how much we needs those other creatures to get through life. I really would love to go back to when things were "simpler" but at the same time I LOVE my technology. So why can't we have both? I do use my macbook and iphone more than I'd like. But I've started to cut back and I've started to plan out how I can repurpose things around me. I'm trying to "go green" but NOT because I think that global warming is real - because I don't, I could write another post about that, but not isn't the time - but because I wan't to live off the land, or try to bring more of those aspects into my life. I'm not "buying green" I'm trying to go green. I'm trying to spend less and grow more, plant a garden, have laying hens, raise piglets into meat for my food. So that I don't have to buy meat from the store that I know has been raised too quickly and pumped full of steroids, that the creature I'm putting in my mouth probably went through HELL for however long its short life was. I want to grow my meat myself, the right way, not the fast, cheap, easy way. 

I know this post may sound a bit corny and over played, but I'm really just thinking what if? I think the round nature ball of love looks alot nicer than the jagged ego triangle of superiority. It would just be nice if more of the human world would pull their heads out of their asses and realize that they really aren't the top of the pyramid they're apart of a global community. 

A: There really is no one answer to the question, just opinions and thoughts to pitch back at this question. And these were mine. OH! I could come up with many more, but it's getting late and I'm actually feeling tired so I should take advantage of that.

Point is this year I am going to try to appreciate the other living things around me more. You know, kill less spiders and flies - mosquitoes are the exception, because there is an over populated amount of them, and no one likes mosquitoes. 

see...no good reasons. 

NIGHT!