"IT'S RAINING ..

... AND IT'S COLD AND WE ARE STAYING IN. BE GONE, RG ..." - Zoey and Baxter.

"No worries guys. I'm hunkered down too." - RG

"AND WHEN ELECTED ....

... a carrot in every bowl and treats on the hour. - Harrumph" - Goldie "OK - climb down Goldie, my turn." - Benji

MAN (er) BUNNY THE BARRICADES!

Racer has escaped into The Boyz area and refuses to come out ....

"Nothing they can do will get me out ... wait! do I hear the craisin bag??? Hmmm." - Racer

GOOD STUFF

Chico

"KEEP DOWN, CLUCKER ...

... maybe RG won't see us and we can stay out all night!"

"Winnie you pea-brain, RG only has eyes for Zoey out here."

"I DO see you Boyz - no shenanigans now."

FOUR MORE ....

Zoey, Baxter, Lucky, Winston .... waiting in the bread line.

WELCOME HOME BL!!!

RG, Zoey, Kitty Boy and all the Bunns

"NO SIR, I DON'T LIKE PIE ...

... nor those berries either!" - Racer Lest some of you think too highly of my skills, I actually just follow directions pretty good.

BL coming home Tuesday - whew.

WHEN BL'S AWAY ...

... she goes fishing with daughter and granddaughter (taking picture on cell phone and sending it to me.) So I am sure to see what I am missing. At least I don't have to help clean them. I expect to get another photo of the dinner later ....

But a fella has got to eat too, this should work ... stay tuned ...

"Do you think I like pie???" - Racer

45 minutes later ... now we need an ice cream run - back in a jiffy! There we go - French Vanilla! - YUM!

THE PRINCESS ON DUTY ....

"Don't worry, BL. I'll keep an eye on him." - The Princess

Me and Kitty Boy can handle salad duty just fine, thank you very much! (especially with labeled dishes :<)

I bought some chicken breasts and opened BL's Fabulous "Dining with Dorothy" cook book to "Poultry"

Just a few changes and here we are! Enough for several days!



And a flower picture to top off the day ....

BUNNS FOUR ALL ....

... and all four bunns! Racer, The Princess, Goldie, and Benji.

Daisys in the breeze ...

"I MISS BUNNY LADY!!!!" .....

Chico

I'm sure you do Chico - so do I. This bunny ranching is a full-time job. I need a proper outfit.

Clematis on the wrong side of the wall!

WHILE BL's AWAY .....

"He's a pushover Lucky, we are IN! Go for the Craisin bag, I'm sighted on the Nananananas!" - Winston

Well, I grow and photograph pretty flowers.

BL is famous - sort of. Read her latest "weekly" column in a local paper ... (see "Websites" to the right.)

BAXTER FINDS THE COOL ....

Today is our last (of 5) 80 degree plus days here. Some got to almost 90. Bax (and all the bunns) found shade and fan-air and survived OK.

Some beloved (wise-acre) relative brought me this sign...

BL left for a few days, east of the mountains, to Wenatchee (talk about HOT!) today. I am IN CHARGE!!!! (Let's see here, first pants, then shoes ...)

"WHOA, DUDE! ....

... That fan feels good in this heat-wave! Thanks, RG. (Now bring treats.)" - Benji

86 today, 88 yesterday, 80 tomorrow ... we are not used to this stuff. Enough all ready. How's every bunny else doing?

"YOU CALL THIS ....

... a carrot? Really? What part of BIG do you not understand?" - Savannah

Cartoon in this week New Yorker. Victoria Roberts is in serious trouble in Bunny Land!

Cats are weird. 84 degrees right there and Kitty Boy sleeping in the sun.

"I DON'T LIKE HOT."

- The Princess -

Yes - it was 80 today and hotter coming for a few days. Doesn't often happen here in the air-conditioned Pacific NW, so we are not used to it. Lots of fans!

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Here is some crabbing info and pix.

Dungeness crab are quite plentiful around here and the season is currently open until end of September. Keep 5 males per day per person, must be at least 6 1/4" across the back. A person can have two traps going at once.

Normally, BL and a friend go crabbing about once a week in a nice boat and get their limits very fast and that is usually enough crab for us for the week!

There is a dock at Coronet Bay, just south of Deception Pass. It floats and so it rises and falls with the tides. The dock is part of the State Park and many boaters moor to it for the night and also to await the slack tides through Deception Pass. I heard it has some dungeness crab there and so I went early last Wednesday morning to check it out, since no boat is needed!

The dock was chock-a-block full of boats, including the Lady Washington, a big sailing ship replica of the boat Robert Gray sailed to discover the mouth of the Columbia River in 1792. (A sort of sister ship, the Hawiian Chieftan, was also there.) So I hung my traps over the edge, baited with chicken pieces, in between the boats and took my chances. Didn't work - pretty well skunked - lots of little ones and females.

But, by 10:30 all the boats left so I had the whole dock to try out, and I did - still to no avail. A few other crabbers were there too, a couple keepers amongst the lot of them.

Fortunately, the next day BL and friend saved the day by scoring fine so I am about to shuck some and enjoy a big Crab Louie!!! Good to have a woman who knows how to bring home the bacon, so to speak!

The far end of Coronet Bay empties out well as the tide falls and here are some of a flock of about 50 blue herons standing in the shallow water, way over there, fishing and feeding!

Close up of a few of the birds ...

Goose Rock, which rises above the Bay.

That long, low dock is the crabbing and mooring dock - a really pretty place!
"PFFFFHHHTTTTT - Got carrots???" - The Bunns

"A BUNN'S HOME ....

... is a great place from which to watch the world go by." - Benji

Benji has really taken to getting snuggled down right against the inside wall of his box - he happily whiles away a large part of these warm sunny days in there. I think a fan blows a breeze through it!

FULL ATTENTION!

Chico and Savannah

GANGWAY ...

"I hear lunch!!!" - Racer

"IF A BLUEBERRY ....

... falls and I hear it can I eat it???" - The Princess

"THERE MUST BE ...

... a craisin in there somewhere." - The Boyz

LIA AGENT 0090 ....

"Actually, I, Zoey, am Lagamorph Intelligence(?) Agency Secret Agent # 0090 as proclaimed by Dame Maddie Maddie Bunn Bunn, Pry-minister of all of Lagamorphia, and if you don't know what this means, well, you were not intended to." - Zoey

BUNN ON A MISSION ....

"This is going to be my secret escape hole!!!" - Lucky

RABBIT AT REST ....

"Turn me around when this side is done." - Goldie

BENJI ....

In the Jack Daniel's (box) again ....

PFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTTT - THUMP !!!!

Kitty Boy - 1, RG - 0.

"Do you think this is my best side?" - Chico

IT IS AUGUST !!!

"Maybe I'll stay in here until September. You may deliver at the door." - Zoey