Could you start feeding and t/n/r a tomcat or two and have them be outside cats?

I think they technically belong to the neighbors, but I suppose we could start feeding them.

The other neighbor's bunny has escaped into our yard again and seems to be hiding out in the shed. So far her owner (who wasn't her original owner but took her in from a neice or someone) hasn't been too desperate to find her. I'm trying to figure out if it's ok to get the bunny to a rescue.Matthew is trying to get his sister to bring over a live animal trap so we can catch the bunny easier. I'm not sure how we are going to trick her into going into the trap since she isn't interested in anything but grass to eat.

Will a bunny rescue come and get the bunny? Sounds like the neighbor wouldn't mind too much if the bunny mysteriously disappeared. "Sorry, it was in our yard and then it was just gone, don't know where it went..."

Well the bunny is still..outside doing things. The bunny rescue won't come and catch it, we have to catch it. Or someone does.

And I'm going to be honest it was hard enough wrangling everyone to get them to catch the rabbit the first time. I'm not really sure I want to deal with that again. Plus I can really only help with bunny wrangling on my day off and I've been trying to get other stuff done.

I feel slightly bad for not doing more to get the bunny to a rescue but on the other hand I have other stuff. Like trying to get the new ac window unit installed Shouldn't take time but it means getting help and doing it when it's not raining and that's.. not been easy to coordinate.

Paying Tim's nephew to overhaul our backyard is worth every penny. (Largely because Tim and I are old and decrepit and would not be able to pull ivy and cut down The Honeysuckle Bush That Ate Northside.) When it's all finished, we're getting some comfy lawn-furniture chairs and a fire pit (because it is every Beckmeyer's birthright to have a fire in their backyard [lest we forget, we did in fact have a fire pit at our wedding reception, courtesy of his brother]). And I'm low-key obsessed right now with picking out a good hammock with a frame (I don't want to attach it to a tree) that has appropriate Big Fat Panda weight limit.

Even before the coronavirus, we weren't going to be able to take a vacation this year, because Tim used all his vacation time on his luxurious stay in the cardiac ICU, and then recuperating at home. So might as well turn our hellscape of a backyard (it was so bad that I'm ashamed to share "before" pictures) into a nice place to while away the summer.

That sounds like a solid project, Teppy, and pretty rewarding too!

We have a hammock on a frame that fits the two of us easily. And when there were 3 of us at somewhere in the 550 range it was fine. I think any double hammock should do. And yay for backyard transformation!

Found out today that what we thought was a clogged trap in the laundry room is actually a cracked sewer line below the garage, which has filled up with plants growing in it. We have been advised not to do laundry until they can dig out the pipe and replace it, which will take more or less two weeks. I don't know how to explain to the plumbing company that this is *really* not a great time of the month for me to not do laundry for two weeks. (Not that I have a choice, BUT OH MY FUCKING GOD 2020.)

Ugh, not fun at all. Do you have drop off laundry service nearby?

Ugh, Jess! Most unfortunate.