I got a Canon Powershot S2 IS 5 megapixel, with 10x zoom, 2 1/2 years ago. I took picture # 5,000 today! The Boyz ... Lucky and Winston ... growing in pots outside between the snow of yesterday and the rain of tomorrow.
Every morning Savannah has rearranged that scalloped piece of art. She is a mysterious one, that girl. (She is barely visible, there in her "studio".)
The shoulder progress continues ... sleeping is getting easier. I ditch the sling four times a day for some very mild elbow and shoulder moving .. that feels good ... usually about 1/2 hr. I am 23 days with the sling so far ... maybe 19 to go. Today I held Zoey for awhile. I was nervous because she likes to move around a bit. But it worked fine and I know she was happy to be back too - her teeth were purring away pretty good!
Oh .. had a late night meeting yesterday so no post. But Racer looked great there for two days. Yesterday morning when we got up, little Racer was very listless and did not want any food. After awhile, BL gave him the old stand by of a dose of Metacam and a bunch of fresh pineapple juice from a syringe. In about 5 hours, he popped up and began to eat and be active and is back to his usual perky self. Whew ... who knows.
A friend down the road prunes his 6 or 7 apple trees very severely every year. He brings us a lot of the branches and we clip them into 8 inch lengths and store them in a big bucket. Most all the bunns love them and can strip the bark in a few hours! We have seen Savannah take a thin one and eat it like a piece of hay!Now we have this big bucket of naked sticks, waiting for the burn pile.
Winston has always been pretty feisty and wiggly. Lately he is being a real little cuddle-bum.
She lived for several days in this big box........
Then she moved to this area we fixed, and there she has been all these years. She had Benson, her little Jersey Woolly mate for several years until Benson died 14 months ago.
Somehow we came to believe a well-cared for domestic bunny would live 7 years. So now every day with this one is a major treat and very special! And, she does not let us ever forget that! That is why she came to be renamed "The Princess!"
I guess that whine got some attention!
Nineteen to three! 
We are all supposed to be thinking about our 2009 "Making lemonade out of lemons" story. Probably can't guess mine, eh? Go ahead and start talking about yours on your blog, as it develops.
Oh my what gifts! A big Rescue Rabbit sweat shirt, some exotic, delicious-looking chocolate covered with foreign words, and a sack of bunny treats! I think these will be selected by the appropriate recipients and thoroughly enjoyed ... right Racer?
What more can we say than THANKS! my oh my ....
I had a two week Dr. visit and all is going just fine. I get to wear the sling 4 more weeks. ugh ... I can take it off some during the day for some simple elbow movements, but no shoulder movement at all. Sleeping in a sling is awful.
The Princess has a little "bunny" door to come back in the house. Her food crock is right near it. Sometimes we drop a little treat into that crock ... maybe a little piece of carrot. Out of time tonight, but hope to have a neat surprise tomorrow here....
Isn't that just about as classic a mini-lop pose as you can imagine?
Yes, Racer got a turn in the "Pen of the Big House" today. He was more of an explorer than a watcher like Chico. A nice day for bunns out ... still a little chilly though.
Chico is in the BIG house, clearly in charge of whatever comes and goes! BL has been putting some of the bunns in different-than-normal outside pens some. This is where Lucky and Winston usually play, but they got a different area down by Baxter and Zoey today. Savannah is in one next door pen, and she and Chico like spending quite a bit of time along the common fence!
The Princess .... still the best there is! She does perfect in my lap ....
ok .. so in early september i am at the local, small-town, community fitness center. there's another "older" fellow there and we are comparing notes and blabbing. a young oriental girl is there too and asks about pushups! well, macho richard - that's the other guy - leaps right in and tells her it's easy. just do one the best you can. next time do two. then, next time three ... and so on. pretty soon she'll be strong enough and be knocking out 15 or 20 at a time, easy. anyway that makes me think i should add pushups into my workout - i could do that at home, easy, first thing in the morning. so i did ... 1, then 2, then 3, ..... by gosh i got to 27 and the next day i thought a truck had run over me.some other answers: no, i don't do night-time music, the rest of the house vetoed it. no i can't do much shoulder movement at all for about 6 weeks. i do take the sling off a few times a day to let my arm hang down and then flex it up along my front, to keep the elbow loose. yes, bunny snuggles help a lot - as does the help and support from bl .. it is quite a change for her ... there are many many of my usual chores i can no longer do and so she is learning them. i also can't drive for those 6 weeks .. or tuck in a shirt. no i haven't started the secret oriental treatments but plan to this weekend. right now it is hard to focus or concentrate on any one thing very long.
now, i hurt, so good night. thanks again for the kind words, helps, and patience!
Here is how Savannah likes things on Wednesday. That long white piece of stimulus-funded architecture from the other day is currently mostly pulled into the box for some secret work. Later she had it all out and used as a fence between box and crocks. She was still working on getting the scalloping "just so."
Benji stays pretty quiet so I can get a few minutes of bunny time. Got to be awful still with that left arm for about 4 weeks. Here I am 4 1/2 days into it! The lydocaine pump ran out after a bit more than 2 days and I'm to a percoset pill every 3 or 4 hours now. Magic, those are, but I'm pretty cautious about that stuff. 
apparently the operation was ok .. they sent him home with this jug of numbing med. and a button to push.
The Bunns have commandeered the Blog, and I, The Princess, have been appointed to announce that on Wednesday, February 4, at 8:00am PST our uh, er, ahem ... uh .. beloved ... Rabbits' Guy will be "under the knife" having a torn rotator cuff repaired. We expect him home in drugged and jolly spirits by about noon. Bunny Lady has done a fine job getting ready for the care and attention he will demand ..
Zoey has a great head and nape of hair! On her ears too .... and it takes no care other than what she and Baxter give it. She's a special one.
Boy, the next time we plan a great bunny caper, I better solicit input first .. you all have some great additions for the next Carrot Bowl!
The Lops had the advantage, sort of, since there were 5 of them and only 4 Uppys. But the Uppys had The Princess. Baxter took the opening "carrot-toss" and rumbled, untouched, 95 binkys for a score. The play was contested because Zoey, an Uppy, but Baxter's beloved, sprung him with a fierce block on Savannah just as she was about to floor him. Racer allowed the play to stand after Lucky and Winston bribed him with a carrot, one of the many spares. 
