MONNDAY BUNNDAY BACKRUBB ......

Now ..... THERE is a good bunny! (Savannah is NOT believing this!)

PS - Savannah rearranged everything again last night. So now she has a new box ... hmmmmmm

I HAZ NITEMARE !!!!

...... But I can fix it ..................
Quite the sight this morning ... Savannah is usually such a neat and tidy girl ... she sure did have some fun in the night though! It's all back to normal now ... wonder what tomorrow will bring!

THE PRINCESS .....

Nothing to add here ... this from some early morning time!

This little guy is L111, the newest calf in one of the "resident" pods of Killer Whales (Orcas). Here he is probably less than a couple days old. He/She will be officially named and counted if seen again next year. There are about 85 whales in the resident pods. The locals know everyone of them by their markings and sounds, heard by hydrophones mounted at various points underwater in their usual habitats. The resident pods of Orcas here are all "endangered species" because they live in these waters all the time and Puget Sound suffers from too much people love! There are resident pods in many other places and also transient pods that move long distances. Residents tend to eat fish (salmon - nom, nom, ..) while transients feed on seals, sea lions, and other whales. The Orca is the top of the sea-mammal food chain. OrcaNetwork is a fascinating website for reading about what is going on with the Puget Sound Residents!

And then from the Other-world .... I got hold of this new bunny blog by Carlton Jamal, and now see that I can link to a whole Other-world of bunny blogs - most must be in England! Dare I go there???? Aaaaaghhh .....

WAITING FOR THEIR TEE-TIME .....

Racer (back left, The Princess, Goldy, and Benji are waiting for their turn to swing the clubs! When we did the pen work on the big deck I did not give thought to taking pictures. About all I can do now is take them through the windows!

Yes, it's hot up here ... 80's today ... but we'll be down below 70 in a couple more days and whining about that! The cherry tomatoes are getting red!

wOOt .. in just about three days I was called Sweet, a Saint, and an Inspiration on the blog-o-sphere! I might as well just live there!!!!

Somebody suggested packing up the bunns and taking in a movie in an A/C theatre. Can I imagine getting 10 rabbits to agree on the flick, all get in the car at once, and not squabble over who gets the way-back? Fuggehhtaboudit!

Yes, the 7BUNNY7 is getting anxious, but not yet ... not unless somebody else wants to narrate the adventure. I'm about a month away from having that inspiration! But, if somebody wants to volunteer, let me know, I'll hand over the keys!

And last, did you see ROO today? Wow, and addictive too!

IT IS WARMIN' UP .....

Here is the early Thursday morning (6:30) view out our front windows toward the NE. That is the tippy top of Mt. Baker off to the right of the view. Fog this time of year means one thing ... hot coming! Probably make almost 90 by Saturday ... not good for folks and bunns used to lo-70's! Baxter and Zoey (and the other guys as well) have a fan and slots in the deck to let cool air up from the lower levels! And they are shaded. They'll make it! ... Nobody has A/C in a house here; just most of the newer work-place facilities and stores!

We don't get many Baxter pix of him sitting up .. enjoy!

TWINKLE-TOES!!!!!!

It was a long day and the eatin' after was good!

Now Go Away ....

Hey .. give a look at BunnyBlab and also BunnyGirl. Both have some nifty opportunities to try out.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ................

Savannah, having been out on the deck in her pots all day, now is in and feeling full with some oats .... time for a rabbit snooze. She's a special one ... she deserves it!

We got a note from AndrewBunn today! Had not seen hide nor hare (Ho Ho) of him for some time and that always makes us feel worried. Now we need to hear from Lola the Lovely Lop - and Zinger and Sammy. Good to hear from Rabbie Burns and the Fluffy Tribe too - they must be done with vacation!

Munnday Bunn!!!!

I PREFER TUESDAY!!!!

DID SOMEONE MENTION DESTRUCTION????

OK .. this is NOT destruction .. these are glads and a big dahlia from the House of Rabbits gardens! Makes it sound palatial around here, eh??? Destruction follows ....

I'm not too sure how long this has been going on .... not long though! That little girl seems right proud of her work, doesn't she??? This is Sunday August 10, 2008. I'll try to get another photo when it falls! One of the pieces was dragged into her inside area for extra chewing but I had to discard it .. it had nails!

LET US IN, LET US COME IN ......

Ya Boyz ... you best come in. It rained a lot today .. very rare in August here. All bunns were out on the deck and all have fine shelter, but the Boyz (Lucky and Winston) really did want to come in. (This picture is not in the rain.) How can we resist????

About Benji and that box yesterday ... Benji and Goldie do like to go in the box and have one in their condo too, but neither are box chewers. Mainly Savannah is the box destructor! She really does make little ones out of big ones!

IT'S NICE IN HERE!!!!

Benji barely able to contain his exhuberance of having his normal keepers on site and active ....

OK OK ... missed another posting day .. it was camp-out time at The Farm again! A real bunch of show boats this time ... I even heard (and saw) a young girl play Kumbaya on a harmonica with her nose! Be still my heart ......

HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN ....

We went to Wenatchee to see this special kid and her sister and parents and the watchdog Boomer! This one, with Grandma Bunny Lady, once had a rabbit named Scooter and they have been on these pages in the past. Scooter died quite awhile ago from the parasite disease that makes a rabbit wobble and tip over .. it was a sad and hard time for all of us. Recently this kid had serious back surgery for scoliosis she has been dealing with for several years. We were so happy to see her recovering well and smiling ... 4 weeks ago we saw her a couple days after the surgery and she was a sad sack :<( ...
We drove from sea-level west of the mountains on Highway US 2 over Stevens Pass (4,000 plus feet). Here was a beautiful waterfall .. it is a gorgeous drive. Listen folks ... we bunns were behaved for Friend of the Animals and happy to see our real keepers too, and we thought they would show lots of pictures of us .... hmmmm ... well, tomorrow, after we get over being happy to see them, we will thump plenty!

Here is the Wenatchee River flowing eastward out of the Cascade Mtns on into the Columbia at Wenatchee.
Here is the Columbia River from the Wenatchee house. It is flowing southward (left to right) and the Wenatchee enters on the extreme left of the picture. There are so many dams, the Columbia is basically a bunch of very long, narrow lakes!
Back westward up the Wenatchee river valley are many pear orchards. The entire area is full of orchards of all sorts, Wenatchee is the Apple Capital of the world! Hot dry country irrigated by the waters of the Columbia. Cold in winter ... good for fruit trees.
It was 99 degrees in the shade .. but it is a DRY heat :<) .. and, these guys have air conditioning and a pool!!!
It was a good trip and great to see the kid doing so well, including her Mom and Dad and lil Sis. Now we are glad to be home. Lord love a buncha bunnies! Thanks to Friend of the Animals from Reno Rabbits for great care of our precious ones left at home.

GOOD NEWS and BAD NEWS ....

First the bad news .... Rabbits' Guy and Bunny Lady are leaving!!!! They are going over the mountains early Monday and we are stuck here until Wednesday evening!!! Aie Yi Yi .... where did they get permission?????

But the Good News .... Friend of the Animals from RenoRabbits is going to come over every evening and feed us really good and clean up and talk to us and all that neat stuff! So things will be pretty good. We asked for advice on Dandy's Journal about if we should be good when the sitter is here, or bad. All those guys said BAD and they had lots of reasons. But, we had sitters once a long time ago and they have never come back - ever - so we are going for GOOD in case we ever need a sitter again .. which we better NOT!

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Those pictures are the signs Bunny Lady has posted so FOTA knows about all our little tricks and fun stuff!

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Maybe there will be some reports about us on RenoRabbits tomorrow or Tuesday!!!

LADIES and GENTLEMEN, BOYS and GIRLS, COWBOYS and INDIANS, and LITTLE BITTY BABIES .... PLEASE WELCOME ....

RACER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of the top ten reasons we have bunnies.

WE NEVER GO THERE ...

No - none of us rabbits are EVER allowed in Farmer RG's garden. We are house and deck bunnies and he harvests and brings the goods to us. Well, actually he harvests, but Bunny Lady does the salad fixin's, and a fine job she does at that too!

We kind of like it as it is. So Boogey and you other guys just stay out of the garden too! GOT IT?

THIS IS MORE LIKE IT !!!!!

OK ... someone said CHARD! I did not take veggy pix this year, this is from last June ... but it's about the same this year too. From left to right ..some taters, carrots, chard, kale and spinach. Some pumpkin vines starting too. Garlic in the background. Might be some parsley stuffed in there too - I practice "close" planting! So see ... we do think about our bunns fresh greens! OK OK ... but see here ... he has five of those 4 x 10 raised beds. How much do you see planted in bunny greens? Granted, there are some nice rows of lettuce not shown, but still .... gnosh, gnosh ...

POSEYS AND CHICO ....

When we first moved into this place .. almost 7 years ago .. there was nothing growing but mowed pasture grass all around the house! Slowly we have created gardens and stuff ... many of our gardening friends have contributed this and thats so we have quite an eclectic set-up and a great conversation piece to walk around in!

These pink Roses were a gift ... they are "Super Bunny Lady" and below them are "A Daughter Daisys", which have HUGE blossoms!


Another gift were these "King Rabbits' Guy Lilies" straight from Holland! That lighter green thingy in the back is yellow hops ... every year it grows up a 25' pole at the corner of the old barn. Very cool! The green feathery thing toward the left is Bald Cyprus trees! The Arbor Day Foundation sent them in the mail one year - along with another tree, neither of which are for this climate. Three of the Bald Cyprus live on - they lose all their needles every fall and look horrid - dead actually - but then come back so pretty in the spring!
SHOW ME THE GREENS ........................

I LIKE BUNNIES BEST ....

Somebody new left a nice comment yesterday. It was a dog blog. But I'll take it! I see that dog blogs and cat blogs get about 3 or 4 times as much traffic as bunny blogs. You know what they say about herds .....

I have no clue what Winston is trying to do here. I think he might be training for the Bunny Gymnastic Olympics or something. This evening he had to be in the little cage for a few minutes during condo cleaning because it rained today (I think like the 5th time in the past 70 years it has rained here on July 29.) Anyway he kept pushing his head against the top to try to push it open ... he almost had to be on tippy hind toes to do it. Twice he fell right over backward ... a backward somersault! Amazing. He just picked himself up, dusted off his pants, and went right back at it! Our Winnie!!!!

Hey ... now that I look at that picture more it seems like he is practicing on one of those rock-climbing walls!!!

WHILE THE BUNN'S AWAY .....

... THE BOYZ WILL PLAY!!! Savannah is the first bunn to go back inside in the evening. The Boyz are right next door and sometimes scoot into her pen when she leaves. Bunny Lady likes to shut them in there then, because they are easier to get when their turn comes.

Being bunnies, they don't let on that they are being trapped, instead they romp and play and love to snuggle up in her nice pot!!! Then we can just go out and scoop them right up! Win Win Win ... oh, except for Savannah. I don't think she likes that sharing!

Did you see the cute heading on Google today? Peter Rabbit!!!!

IF HE CAN, I CAN ...

Savannah taught Racer everything he knows about this style of living!!!!

What a life .....

SUNSHINE ON MY SHOULDER .....

OK, so it is not exactly sunshine, but it is mighty fine for Bunny Lady and Racer!

Kind of looks like Racer is saying "It's Mine, All Mine .. Keep away, Far away."

HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN ....

Here are a couple of young camp bunnies after a day with the gang! Nice spot!

Great time, all fingers intact. Turns out there are only 7 verses to Roll On Columbia!

OK so Fred Meyer is a store like a WalMart but maybe more upscale and regional.

Kid walks by and the MC says Where did you get those shoes, and the kid says Fred Meyer. Next kid walks by and the MC says where did you get that nice shirt, and the kid says Fred Meyer. This goes on through about 5 kids. Then a kid comes running by in his underwear. I'm Fred Meyer he yells!

That is sort of what camp is like!!!!! Did I mention TP-ing the tents?

Looking forward to a nice weekend in the back yard and with Bunny Lady and the bunns!

TABLE, CHAIRS, VIEW, & BUNNIES !!!!

Goldie is one that surely likes her snuggle time! And a mutual feeling for sure. ("Goldie, Goldie, Goldie, Peep, Peep, Peep, Peep.")

Our table and chairs sit right square in the way when you walk in, and with a great view out the windows over the fields, hills, and a bit of Mt. Baker. So all the projects, work in progress, books, visits, bunny time, fur, food, and other good stuff pretty much happens right there! People come in, sit down, and don't seem to want to leave. Some times we even just have to go ahead and go to bed so they do!

Anyway, that is why you see so many bunnies in those chairs ..............

No Post Thursday ... off to another camp-out and being the camp-fire ringleader!!! "Kumbaya" anybody??? How about all 12 verses of "Roll On Columbia?" Remind me to tell you the Fred Meyer joke sometime. Probably only Freckles and Deb will get it since I don't think anybody else has a Fred Meyer store.

ZO-ZO ...

Ahh the Zoey .. what a cuddle bum and mate for Baxter. Sort of our little Miss Ta Ta Ta ...

Say .. a BIG THANKS for the folks who honored us with the Brillante award and we have posted it already. Looks right snappy there. The award made the rounds so fast that we sort of lost track of who got it, so I don't think we will pass it on. But it is not that we don't care ... :<)

The east coast blue crab vs. the west coast dungeness. Votes????

BAXTER REPORTING ALL THE NEWS ....

Rabbits' Guy is currently a day late and a dollar short ... hopefully he will be caught up and able to make the blog rounds and catch up on all the good bunny doings tomorrow :<)

I, Baxter, get the microphone for the news of the day! So here it is .....

Bunny Lady brought the usual good breakfasts around at about 8:00AM. We all got a snuggle and kiss and stuff like that. About 9:30 she cleaned up all the outside pens and freshened the hay and water. Then she picked us each up and held us for awhile .. most of us like that, I would stay there all day I think! Then out to the pens we go. I go with Zoey, and we are next to Chico.

We sleep, eat, poop, sit and look, drink water, chew on sticks, groom, eat, poop etc..... along about 3:30 those 2-foots mowed the lawn and that was a noisy mess. Yuck - they cut down the yummy dandelions and clovers, although Bunny Lady rescued a huge bunch first.

About 5:00 Bunny Lady cleaned up all the inside condos and gave us all fresh pellets and oats and water and hay in there. Then she brought us all in .. and again we sat on the lap and had a good snuggle. Rabbits' Guy does Lucky, Goldie and Zoey .... BL does the rest except for The Princess who has her own private door to come in. RG takes care of that detail!

At about 8:00pm RG went out to collect lots of good garden greens and BL made us our evening salads ... oh my they are yummy. I pretty much gobble mine up ... some of the guys, like Racer, save it for later. But they are all all gone by morning.

Now I am ready for the dark time .... a fun day in bunnyland aka The House of Rabbits.

Oh -- RG says use Google Images and do "Bunny Yawn" and the Bunny Scream picture (and others) will come up!

MUDDY, BUT MADE IT !!!!

Proceed with caution ..............

OK .. bear with me here .. This is the course. The guys in front are on the last 100 yards, coming into the finish line. It is a sloppy mess of heavy muck. Along the back are the guys still on the cross-over 50 yards, having already run out from shore 100 yards. 250 yards total. The farther back you are in the pack, the harder it is because it is soooo churned up. It feels like trying to run up stairs with weights on your feet! We started at exactly extreme low tide, 12:23pm PDT!
Here I am finishing. I stuck up my arms to wave to all my fans and let them know I was still alive! My strategy was two fold .. (there were almost 200 runners) .. first to go along the outer edge of the course, where others had not run, thus firmer footing, even though farther to go that way. Second, to start slow and ease off. My plan worked well, I passed many "stuck runners" along the back stretch 50 yards. But, the final few yards narrowed down into the finish chute and that was a horrid mass of churned up muck from the 100 or so ahead of me. It was a struggle to the shoreline.Here I am with a couple of fellow sloggers. As you can see, I did not get nearly as ratty as they, and others, did. Behind us are people lined up for the wash down hoses. We all have our shoes duct-taped on - even so, many lost theirs! I am actually wearing white sox! Unfortunately, we have not yet really cleared the line where the timers are, so our "official" times are horrid .. but finishing was the key.
Only the top three women and men finishers got medals, but all finishers got these dandy gold-painted oyster shells! The fastest runner was just under a minute. I took about 2 minutes, seemed like a long time! There were nearly 2,000 people at the Bivalve Bash .. it was an all day party and the weather was perfect.
Some previous commenter asked for a Bivalve! Here is granddaughter Lani with a Geoduck she bought. It's alive, weighs three pounds, and is destined for clam strips. 2,000 people there and guess how many Geoducks they sold ... right ... 1. Now where would she get the genes for doing such eccentric things??? I'm not explaining Geoducks - Google it ....

I REALLY DO NOT NEED TO SEE THIS ...

Yes, Winnie ... do not look. Saturday July 19 at precisely 12:23pm PDT, Rabbits' Guy runs the Bivalve Bash Mud Run. It is not going to be pretty. There will be pictures. But not for a day or so. AND, no blog-post Saturday night ... too much recovering to do :<)

Wish me luck ....

Great Scott did you see Disapproving Rabbits today. Unbelievable.

DUNGENESS, REFRIDG., AND BUNNS !!!!

Here are six nice, just cooked Dungeness Crab. Each is more than 6" across the back of the shell. One person can eat one or two at a sitting usually! (At least we can!) We live very close to some waters that just opened (until end of September) for crabbing. Bunny Lady got these with a friend. They come out of about 30 - 40 feet of water in a big trap! Limit is 5 (males) per person per day. Alright now, here is the refrigerator door. Somebody tagged Racer - I think it was DKM - awhile back. It tends to be a collection of keepsakes, favorite kid pictures, notes about stuff, and recent offerings we can't seem to part with. It gets "organized" about every three months or so!
Ah yes - a bunny! The Princess about to demolish a box, shoes and all! "No Princess, No! Hop back in your pen! Go get your Oats!"

YOU THINK I WOULD DO SUCH A THING ???

Oh the shame, the humiliation .... I am a fastidious bunn. I demand DNA testing.

Gads, if bunns could talk! But sometimes they don't need to - the look says it all, and then some!

Benji is a sweetie and we love him dearly anyway!!!!!

I am behind on checking out the blog posts round and about. Tomorrow!!! (Today was the first day of Dungeness Crabbing season ... proprities!)