Rabbits Are Happy

We went to Green Bay, well just south, to a town called Denmark. We picked up our Silver Fox rabbits. The boy we named Vernon and the girl is Marybell. I know, you're not supposed to name your food, but these two will be our producers for many years. I thought we were getting an older buck and a new doe, but it's the other way around by a month. Marybell was born January 1 while Vernon was born in February. She will be ready to breed in June. I suppose I can try Vernon with her then, but we'll see if he's ready then. If not, we'll keep trying till it works.
So in the weeks leading up to getting the rabbits, I worked my butt off taking down the old walls on the porch, cutting the new wall boards, installing them, and painting the celling and floor. Every step of the project there were several trips back and forth to the Home Depot. First the paint color was supposed to be a nice dark brown, but when I started to paint the celling, it was way too red. Had to get that fixed. Then the wall material I used was this white plastic stuff that's used in commercial kitchens. I wanted easy cleaning on the walls that the rabbits would be up against. The problems came when I needed to cut the material. I first thought I could cut it with a utility knife, no way. Then my little hand saw, not bad, it cut, but at that rate I was either going to have a huge arm muscle from all that cutting, or my arm was going to fall off from pain. When I woke up the next day, after cutting one 8' cut, with a sore arm, I want back to the Home Depot to get a better cutting tool. After looking at several other hand saws, different blades for my circular saw, the helpful guy in hardware suggested a diamond tip bur for my dremel tool. He offered it would cut like a hot knife threw butter,. Sold. And he wasn't kidding. It did the job, but in it's proficiency, it also made huge clouds of dust. Once again, back to the Home Depot for dust masks. Which even with long sleeves, dust mask, safety goggles, and a shower cap, yes a shower cap on, it got everywhere. A fine, scratchy dust that I'm sure after breathing in will take a few months off my life. But I got those boards cut and installed. Oh yeah, installed. A different, less informed Home Depot employee sold me these nails that would bend after two wacks. I used dry wall screws. Those too were hard to get started on that material, but after screwing my thumb and setting me back a few days while it healed, I got the hang of it. Just before I thought I was finished, I decided to make a table for the rabbits to sit on. This would give me room to store things underneath. A little more sawing and a little more drilling and a table was born.