Rabbit...and those chickens!

Are still giving us issues! We spent a few hours trying to piece together bits of wiring & shortening the walls to make a roof so that the chickens would stop flying away but we didn't have enough to cover it - so we went to buy the rest of the fencing and it was still going to be $50! Crazy. So I guess we will put the walls back up to where they were and just buy the fencing. Our friend Cynthia says she knows of a place to buy cheaper used wire. We'll see. Oh - Cynthia and her husband Wilson (this is the family we poured the cement floor for and we are now friends with them) have helped us get more chickens for our flocks. They are the ones that gave us the two...so we gave them money to buy us a few more. Well today when we went to go pick them up, a few hours before we got there, the 3 year old went and opened the coup and ours flew away! Seriously this is like a bad movie! So our 4 chickens are lost in the woods somewhere and nowhere to be found. We're hoping they'll show up...grrrr. I don't know if we're meant to be chicken farmers. And then the two we have got out this afternoon and flew to the top of a tree so we had to shake the branch with a bamboo pole to get them to come down - we were dying of laughter at our bad chicken raising! This is getting ridiculous - but now i just think it's funny. Oh & when we got to Cynthia's she informed me that they had bought a RABBIT to give us...I thought there was a language barrier and asked her to repeat herself...what...I've been given a rabbit as a gift? What am I going to do with a rabbit? So, now we have a rabbit which I have no idea what I'm going to do with (but of course I couldn't say no). Moral of the story - if you're wanting to be friends with someone, give them a rabbit!

Part of our ministry with Seeds of Change is working with adoptions. So we got a call the other day to go to the hospital and pick up a 3 day old baby girl that was not wanted. Sad. So - not quite knowing how to feel, we headed to the hospital unsure if we were picking her up or what the true story was. Turns out that the baby had been given to a family (hopefully they will care for her well!) so that is good. It is such a turn of emotions dealing with children and wanting to help them. Children deserve to be in families - not necessarily a U.S. family. The end goal is for a child to be in a safe, family - where ever that may be. You can imagine how emotions go up and down as you drive to the hospital to possibly pick up an unwanted child. It was an emotionally exhausting day.