Of work vans and rabbits

 Last week Ronnie and I had an adventure.  He purchased a 2001 GMC Savanah cargo van (complete with shelves already installed) from a gentleman on Craigslist and yesterday we drove to Rocky Mount to pick it up.  This van needs a new fuel filter, which we knew about ahead of time, so pick up involved borrowing a heavy duty truck and trailer.  The trip down was uneventful, our loading experience while there was .... interesting.  Alan (the seller) is a great guy and was extremely helpful in getting this cargo van rolled/come-along cranked on to the trailer.  In the midst of all this we punctured a tire and had to change it before finishing the load up.

Long story short, it took about 2 hours to get this bad boy loaded up.  Allen even texted us to check on our progress.  Thanks Alan - we love this truck!!

This brings me to rabbits; it'll make sense in a minute.  As you know, I have been waiting several MONTHS for Mark to bring me a male to go with my California doe.  Nothing, nada, zilch.  Ronnie is friends with his wife and he called to catch up on the news and to ask her to follow up with Mark about this rabbit.  Since Mark is not good on follow through, I asked Ronnie to stop at this rabbitry we pass every time we drive to Roanoke - We pass this same place on the way to Rocky Mount.  He raises New Zealands and American Chinchilla's, which when bred together, make a Californian.  We walked away with a beauty of a buck. 

Would you believe that when we arrived home at 9:45 that evening (we left for Rocky Mount at 11:00 am), Mark had called and said that he would bring the buck by?  LOL  I did not believe that Mark would be by but went ahead with my evening...carrying a small glimmer of hope.  That hope blossomed into truth and he brought the buck by to spend the night.  This is not the buck we get to keep though... I am still waiting on that.  In exchange for the studd service I told Mark he could take one of the 8 1/2 week old buck's from the California's first litter. 

That was on Friday (8/19)...we still have the buck.  LOL

Mark was impressed that I was able to purchase a New Zealand from the rabbitry - Mark had been trying for several months to acquire one to no success.  Hmmm.