h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Clean fridge

Help Faith clean room

Laundry

Empty suitcase (It's been used for storage)

Pack clothes

Pack toys & books

Snacks for bus

Clean purse

3X5 frame (for school pic for Aunt Candy)

Charge phone on way to Grants Pass (regular charger disappeared before the move to the temporary apartment, and I still haven't found it) (Grants Pass is the closest bus station--couple hours away)

Clean cage

Buy guinea pig veggies

Make Guinea pig veggie bags

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Yep, we have 2 new additions to the family--we gave 2 female guinea pigs a new home last weekend. Faith claims them as hers, but they're family pets, and if you just go by care, they're mine

What, no "Deposit loads of money to the account of a Canuck friend" ??? gee, where ARE your prorities?

It looks like you've a busy time ahead, and with two more mouths to feed. Have they told you their names yet?

Are you going somewhere, Amy?

The names they came with are Jelly Bean and Mittens Mittens got renamed Jasmine as the cage was being squeezed into the back seat, and Jelly Bean was renamed Esther late the next evening. We told Faith she could name one, and that we were naming the other. Keeping in mind that we're dealing with a 4 year-old princess-lover, and a 2 person committee, guess who named who We're having camera troubles*, but we'll get pictures up sometime.

All I've got left to do to finish getting ready to head to Aunt Candy's for a few days are the cleaning things on the list, charging the phone (which I even have listed as happening tomorrow anyway) and finishing packing toys and books, keeping in mind that there's not a lot of space, and that it's supposed to rain most the time we'll be there.












*We can't find the camera--it may have been lost or stolen

I was sure that Hope and Charity would be high on the list of names for the guinea pigs--unless you're saving those names in case you had more daughters.

Faith already has a giant stuffed rabbit named Hope, so that's out

Well, all right then.
Thelma and Louise are two other good names for female lifeforms of the pet persuasion.

Well, since Jasmine had her name before the cage was even all the way in the car... Before I said that one would be named by adults and the other by Faith, they *were* going to be 'Princess' and 'Jasmine'--I tried to do a botanical theme, but Tom didn't like any of those names *shrug* Esther got her name because she looks a bit matriarchal

Good for her!

And to think that we just went with names like Hilda, Gertie, Wilma, Verna and Dort ... We had as many as 450 bunnies at one time, and about 150 guinea pigs, a small business for the lads in the family.

BTW, Dad thought the names were good, ... All his sisters and sister-in-laws.

I hope that the sisters and cousins and aunts didn't get their cottontails in a snit over having their names used for .

To be quite honest, I don't think any of them knew. Which may be a good thing. Some of those critters were very 'prolific', if you catch my drift. Not what some very sombre Catholic women might wish to be associated with.

If you had as many as 450 , what did you do with them? Were you raising them to sell to butchers, or to pet shops?

It was through another chap, off to pet shops as best I recall. To be honest, my older brothers began the affair, and as they got busy with school, I was obligated to take over. And never really asked where they ultimately went.

Well, rabbits don't have long lives, so whichever it was, they have all hopped off to bunny heaven by now.

Ye gawds, can you imagine how prolific bunnies and other small critters are in heaven? I can only guess that there are zones that only gentle children, and very patient adults, dare walk. So many little wiggly-twitchy-whiskers every where.

I doubt that they procreate in heaven, Nick.
Very likely they spend their time reading Bunny Latin and
telling stories about their lives on Earth.