Image by 🌼Christel🌼 from Pixabay
by Kelli Bowen
Welp! Our bougie critter compound arrived in the mail in about 85,000 pieces across three boxes. Hubby and I were strategic, hiding the first two boxes before the children saw, but the third box arrived while we were away doing school and work things, so they saw it…and then it was time.
Miss E and I went to town for supplies. Miss A and Hubby got to work assembling the 85,000 pieces. Six hours later, they were 30% finished, and Hubby was 110% done.
Being the ever-wonderful girl-dad sport that he is, he kept on and as the sun dipped below the hills to the west of us, we had the fanciest critter condos this side of the little Scenic Missouri River.
Our neighbor wandered over, excited about the prospect of critters, especially eggs. The girls have funneled all of their excitement to bunnies.
Hubby has funneled his “excitement” to shopping for dirt bikes and I’m just delirious…ly happy.
I joined a half-dozen rabbit groups and another five or so chicken groups on Facebook so now I see even less updates of people I may have been mildly interested in, and now my algorithm is all rabbits, chickens, very strongly opinionated memes about government and perimenopause. This is apparently my life now.
I found a scammer who was trying to convince me to send him or her money for a rabbit he or she doesn’t have, so I spent more than a rational amount of time terrorizing the scammer discussing rabbit genders and asking about C.O.D.
Meanwhile, we have two rabbits joining our family in two weeks. We hope Tractor Supply Company will have the chick hookup.
The excitement in the house is palpable. Hubby is beside himself and I remain delirious...ly happy.
Kelli makes her home in Billings County with her husband, two daughters and a dog. She works for North Dakota's #1 tourist destination by day and tries to be an alright mom, wife, friend, and writer by night.
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