LIFE IS HARD ....

Isn't this pathetic???? What if the Rabbit Police see this kind of treatment? (What if Bunny Lady sees it!!!) They should send me back to "bunny basics." Maybe I'll just quit looking over the edge here.

Kind of reminds me of Olivia Newton-John singing to John Travolta - "You better shape up!" in Grease!

I'll do better - promise.

SPUDS .....

'Em's 'Taters ..... We have five nice raised beds at the House of Rabbits and also a big old compost pile out back to grow stuff in. Almost 75% of the space goes for bunny foods. But .... we always take two of the beds and plant potatoes ... Reds in one and Yukon Golds in the other. Rotate the beds around each year.

Here are a few of the Yukons I harvested this evening. My they are good right out of the garden. All in all we will probably harvest enough to keep us going until about mid-April. We store them in boxes in our old hobby-barn and if it gets really really cold for several days (rare) we bring them in until it warms up.

Remind me to post, tomorrow, the latest picture of The Princess in her endless mission to shape me up. It will break your heart.

HITCH YOUR LITTER-BOX TO A STAR!!!!!

Oh yes, Baxter has it right! Zoey has submitted her picture to Boogey Bunny (of WascallyWabbit) and is going to be big in advertising!!!! Gosh though, I hope SHE doesn't take a hankering for the big city lights.

Have you seen the like, really GIANT, knitted bunny on MyHouseRabbit???? These crafters are serious!

Lucky got some stick-up action and we will have that on the web site by the weekend!

SUNN BUNN !!!

Baxter is kind of like a cat .... ... he has found a nice sunny spot to spend an hour or so on a pretty fall afternoon.

I missed the last debate ... off at a class about the geology of our area ... let's see; ice-age glaciers, earthquakes, volcanoes, mud-flows, floods, and tsunamis ... I think that was it. Gosh and here I was worried about the price of gas!

WELL, YOU ASKED FOR IT ....

The recipe for Death By Chocolate is over to the left under "Websites." I want full reports about how it went, and I don't want to read them in the obituaries - so go lightly!Now as to this mournful look. I peeked over the sink this early AM and here she is ... nearly to the bottom of the pellets, no oats, in need of a treat, and certainly the cleaning people are over due. Somehow she made it this way through the entire day until relief came about 5:00PM.

Next thing I know she'll be on a southbound to the Bay Area or else heading out overseas. Then what will I do ????

Fortunately a yogurt drop and a nose-rub and some pettin' and I'm back in her good graces. Thank you Princess.

IT WASN'T AT ALL BAD .....

See? Benji got some special treatment from our company! He is very happy and purring up a storm here!

But gosh ... Racer got two invites ... one to Scotland and one to Malaysia. People ... Racer is NOT going anywhere. He is actually quite content as well. He was just a bit tired from all the action. You can't have him. He is ours!!! Our little Racer-guy!

It's Columbus Day ... the day we bring in the wind chimes until Mother's Day. It is the windy season for that long!!! Sometimes we have some doozeys.

THEY'RE GONE !!!!

Well .... that was some group ... four young 2-foots and their mama. They are nice but golly they all go back and forth past my condo all morning and evening and I don't get much holding and petting from Bunny lady on my way out to and back in from my outside "bowling alley!"

So my little neck is tired from turning back and forth to watch all the action and I'm grouchy from not enough luvin' ... I'm even too woofed to hop out this open door of my condo! I can't wait for Munday Bunday and things back to normal!!!! Yur Reporter RACER .....

OK OK .. yup it was hectic. But we did find all eight of the letterboxes we hunted for and they were all in dandy places .. we saw an oyster and clam farm and big salmon coming up the stream to spawn. There is even some Death By Chocolate left but it won't last until any of you get here so don't even bother! And .... the bunns get lots of attention tomorrow for sure.

OH! Saved Dave has more Stuck Up pix on the Sticky Buns website!! Go See...

MY, IT WAS GOOD !!!

Oh but that Death By Chocolate was good ... we ate it at about 7:45 Saturday evening after a successful day finding four letterboxes! We are after four more on Sunday.

Savannah does notice that her dessert bowl is empty.
Here is a good example of why that is, Savannah .... and there were three more just about like him here to help!!!
Yes it was delicious, but it's good not to have that stuff often!!!

DEATH BY CHOCOLATE .....

Bunnies must NOT eat chocolate. RG MUST EAT CHOCOLATE

Get out of that RG .. it's for the company coming.

OK but they better hurry up!

THUMP ! ! ! !

BUDDY BUNNYS

The "BOYZ", Lucky and Winston are quite the buddies. Pals to the end.

Letterboxing is where you hide a little weather-proof box with (at least) a rubber stamp and notebook in it. You put the clue for finding it somewhere. Searchers ("Questors") have their own rubber stamp and notebook. When ever they find a letterbox, they record the box stamp in their notebook and their stamp (and a comment) in the box notebook.

Some letterboxes are hidden in special places and have information about that place in them. Serious Letterbox Questors design and carve their own stamps, which can be real works of art!

http://www.atlasquest.com/ is a good site to find letterbox clues. Enter your local zip code and you'll find clues for all the letterboxes near you (that have been posted on Atlasquest .. and lots have.)

If you enter zip 98232, you'll find several boxes on the 2008 Skagit Watershed Letterbox Trail ... those are the ones we are after this weekend!

Let us know if you go Letterboxing and how you do!

YES, THE BUNNS ARE IN .... WHO SHALL I SAY IS CALLING?

Maxine .... our outside cat. Max stands door duty sometimes - well, lays door duty!

Max is pretty old and has her ups and downs, especially when we have these back and forth weather changes that happen so much this time of year. Sort of like me.

We're in for several days of nice weather, although cool. Some relatives are coming and we are going Letterboxing! Anybody a Letterboxer out there?

SAVANNAH IS ALL EARS ....

... and she has her eye "on" the debate.

Pretty much another yawner for bunnies but a bit more exciting for us humans.

What would happen if both guys panicked about the financial crises and quit the race ???

AHHHH ..... MY SALAD!!!

Chico gets his evening salad on the bottom floor ... he almost falls right out the door with excitement when it comes!

Quite a few nasturtium leaves and a nasturtium flower in there. They grow well here, and will do so until the first frost, which could be well into November ....

Pssst GOLDIE! WE ALL THUMP TONIGHT AT 1:15AM! PASS IT ON ...

For your information, in the past week there have been an average of 15 visitors per day to the Sticky Buns site. Each visitor looks at 6 pages - on average. Visitors from USA, UK, Sweden, Malaysia, Netherlands, and Canada.

I wonder if any of our Canadian bunnies will get stuck up anywhere?

What is your BIG fall outing going to be?????

"UNDERSTAND THIS, RG" .....

" I am out. You are in.

Get over it .... "

The Princess

"I" COULD BE GOVERNOR OF ALASKA ....

Hey .. come on .. maybe I got Polar Bear and Sled Dog blood in my lines .... I'm certainly pretty enough.

Don't go there Zoey.

OK RG.

New updates to Sticky Buns! More Freckles, Savannah, and a new guy ... SavedDave!

Have a good weekend ... Go Mariners! ... oh, wait ... uuhhhh .....

DEBATE REPORT .....

First, you see Benji and Goldie have differing views! Such it is here at the House of Rabbits!

Second, we invited a friend from down the street to watch with us, and Bunny lady had a grand pasta and salad and french bread dinner with brownies for dessert! Very nice :<) Without telegraphing any political leaning one way or the other, let us say we all were surprised at how well the lady from "main street" did, considering the predictions and stories leading up to it. Me and the friend were both about bored to tears by about 45 minutes though .... plus I kept thinking Biden was the Republican and Pahlin was the Democrat!

The Bunns were thumbs down universally. Not a darn thing in it for them.

I have more Sticky Buns photos of Freckles and of Saved Dave ... I'll get those up Friday evening.

PS - you guys keep up this incessant drum beating for Baxter to take over the blog and you just might be sorry for getting your wish ....

RABBITS' GUY IS A SLACKER ....

This big boy is Baxter, the Mini-lop, and he hit the nail on the head. I have had too many late nights and not enough free time and .... well ... I got nuthin' ... Haven't read any blogs for two days so I don't even know if maybe there are some lurking Sticky Buns out there.

So .. fire me. (I really didn't think you would.)

Hope to get back on track on Thursday, although got to watch the little debate and then kick that around with Bunny Lady tomorrow night.

Wish me well and so forth ....

LET IT RAIN, LET IT RAIN, LET IT RAIN ...Tra La La

Mr. Weather says we are in for our first big rain-event of the fall! Sometimes it floods around here .. so many rivers and streams coming down fast out of the mountains. Chico is ready! I even see food in there.

Chico coulda run for President 200 years ago with those nice side-burns or whatever they are!

WINSTON IS OUT OF THE WILL ....

I'm not Winston, I'm Racer. Don't I go well in here?

Winston has been a little pistol and Bunny Lady says he has fallen out of good graces. Winston says "And I care about this because ....?" Heee Heee ... Winnie is our hero! And besides, I'm a cup cake compared to Winston.

GOLDIE SAYS .....

HI! Oh ... more .... oh yes ..... the NEW and IMPROVED version of the Sticky Buns website is now available and DEMANDS your immediate attention. Thank You ...


Thank you Goldie ... Good Night.

ANY BUNNY AROUND HERE ?????

Bunny in a wine box !!! Bunny in a wine box !!! There is The Princess "hiding" .....

Gus and Betsy made it to Sweden ... hope to have them on the Sticky Buns web page later on Sunday. Wonder who will get Stuck Up next ???? Maybe Saved Dave??? Freckles???

I HEARD ABOUT THE GREAT DEBATE ....

Lucky is rechecking his ballot and reports that neither candidate had a single stick of their platform that represented advancement for Rabbits. McCain seems like a dog guy and OBama a cat person. At least they are both against ear marks ... so are we. Benson had one because he was a show bunny and loser show bunnies have a sad fate.

That was a pile of Goldie's fur that came out in yesterdays grooming session. Just the way it balled up and sat in that pile makes it look kinda like Goldie .. maybe! Spinning and knitting are not particularly up Bunny Lady's alley, so we don't collect the fur ... but it sure collects on everything around here. Our house is all set for Halloween!

The toes belonged to Winston! It was not really fair. You can't tell them apart unless you see the white on Racer's nose or back toes.

www.bunnytunesusa.org ... that is where you order your Live Hay'd DVD. (Look for a tab called "Order Here" or some such.) Really folks ... here are a bunch of Brits gathered in a pleasant field on a beautiful day, playing and singing (mostly) recognizable tunes turned into bunny lyrics. A courageous lot. You buy it for whatever you want to pay ($15 or more) and all that money goes to whatever Bunny Rescue site you want it to go to. A tax write off as well. Tell 'em Zoey and Boogey sent ya!

WANNA TRY AGAIN ?????

Well fudge .... I surely do not understand the logic used by blogger to decide where to put pictures .. what order. But then, there are lots of things I don't understand... anybody care to guess who this is ?????

Now ... can I insert some text in here ... oh yes ... hmmm .. wonder how that worked? Anyway ... these toesys are belonging to .... ????? Racer ... no, Winston ... er yah Winny ... no, wait more like Racer .... errrrrr ... (hee heee ... after the last guessing game fiasco, probably NOBODY will try!)

We bought a new toaster about a month ago. It works great but we should have waited. Now they give you a bank when you buy one!!!!

Let's see if this works ...I'm trying to insert a 2nd picture here .. but as we see it went up there ... Good night and good luck .

CAN'T YOU SEE I'M BUSY ?????

Winston is doing some renovation work ... I notice that these bunnies seem to continually remodel until the whole thing collapses ... then they keep right on chewing anyway. Fortunately Bunny Lady feels fresh boxes are a must, so we keep every bunn in good practice.

Off to a night-time class so early post and few comments. Catch up tomorrow .. unless ..

WELL, IT'S ME, BAXTER ......

RG is pretty sure this is NOT the picture that the mystery-photo was cropped from, but he is pretty sure it was me. I am checking out some produce specials at the local market. Carrots are looking good. As are banananas ...

I took Hopscotch off the blog list over at the left ... no new posts for many many moons ... bummer, that used to be fun to watch. I added Furry Butts and Mats with bunny.nu from Sweden ... I have this "back" list of bunny blogs I look at from time to time, but most are quite dormant or sporadic or sometimes rather strange. If one stays good and active for awhile, I will move it up front here!

AND NOW - WHO DO YOU THINK THIS IS ???

Lucky? Baxter? Benji? Some other bunny - a non-resident?

Yes, that Racer is quite a handsome boy .. such neat markings .. we always thought he got caught with his nose in the cream bowl!

Short night tonight - stuff to catch up on .. duh.

Have a BUNNDAY MUNNDAY! (oh wait - it is almost Tuesday - like I said - stuff to catch up on)

TA DA !!!!!!

It's me, Racer - white Nose and white Back-Toes. Those folks in Sweden are right on top of things, eh??

Racer is in the little cage because it was condo cleaning time and it was also raining chickens outside. So he gets to go in here while his condo gets the maid-service. He likes to look over the top, but doesn't try to escape.

GUESS WHO ????

Does anybunny know whose toesys these are????

We hear Savannah was on Swedish TV .. well OK .. somebody stuck her on their TV in Sweden, but could not do a picture so we just have to take their word for it .. but still ...

Keep those Sticky Buns coming .. some good ones on the web page, and many say they are "working on it" .... so work on it a little faster!!!!

HEY RG - HEAR ABOUT THE PIRATE THAT ....

... WASN'T ABLE TO GET A HOOK AND A PEG LEG???? "No Sweetie, why not?" ..... WELL IT WOULDA COST HIM AN ARM AND A LEG ... BAWAHAHAHAHAHA .. GET IT??? HUH? HUH???

"Aaargh ya lubber, I'll keelhaul you and the whole louty bunch a yur distasteful mates too if ya keep that malarkey up .. now go steer the good ship straight and true and leave me to my grog ..."

WELL THEN, WHEN DO I GET STUCK UP ????

"Go away"

Listen group ... we gonna need some consensus if we get a better Sticky Buns logo or emblem. You can check out a try at TheBunnyLounge.

YO HO HO AND A BOTTLE A CARROT JUICE!!!

BENJI IS LOOKING AND LOOKING ....

Gosh dang, the bunnies here at the House of Rabbits are all just a grooming themselves like crazy and looking here and there for choice photo-ops. One would think they are hoping to be Stuck Up!!!

Gads did ya see that great blog from Sweden? If you scroll through there you might see your bunny showing up! What a nice surprise!

WHERE OH WHERE OH WHERE IS SAVANNAH ...

Yes she WAS here not long ago ... however ... (probably many of you have seen the adventure, but if not, go HERE .....)

Don't forget, stick up your bun, take and post the picture on your blog, and comment to us or TheQiPapers. We'll get it up on the Sticky Buns web-site! Got no blog? Lemme know an e-mail address and I'll send you an e-mail address to send the picture to!

Say, if there is an artist out there who can make us a better Sticky Buns Logo for the web-page, have at it!!!!

STILL - STICKY BUNS !!!!

We are going to just leave this post up for another day to be sure lots of folks get the word ... (by the way, did any body go out and actually buy and eat a sticky bunn today???)

Oh yeh, the Sticky Bun web page got looked at from ALL over the world! You can be famous ... get those stick-ups in!

The STICKY BUNS Caper has now officially started. Stick up your bunny somewhere cool (Do try to stay out of trouble while doing so) and take a picture. Post it on your blog and leave a comment here or there.

If it all works, we'll grab that picture and put it here. If you want to, give your picture more location identification (Like "Fuzzy on the back of Bono's Limo") and we'll include that.

So GET GOING and check that "here" site now and then.

Oh and remember that "Talk Like a Pirate Day" is coming Sept. 19, so maybe work that in too ....

THE GOOD RABBIT .....

Savannah has spent many, many nights and parts of days ... sometimes all day ... in her inside pen with this nice wooden windowsill. She has made but two tiny nibbles on it. In the meantime she has demolished untold cardboard boxes and debarked hundreds of twigs and apple sticks. Eaten several of those Pier 1 willow balls and several legs, including replacements, from a little stick table.

S-bob is Bunny Lady's Bunny. The two can snuggle and cuddle lots. I just talk to her a bit ... "Hi Savannah. Savannnnnaaaahhhh. You are a pretty bunny Savannah." That's it. She looks at me.

THE CALM OF THE EYE ......

However, as you can plainly see, Disapproval radiates for miles and miles from the Eye of Hurricane Baxter !!!


NAH .. just kidding ..... Baxter is the softest, cuddliest, laid-back bunny of The House! If he disapproves, he is very subtle about it. Not like Winston, who actually "Bit the hand that feeds him" this evening. When Winnie and Lucky come in from outside to go back in their condo, I do the Luckster and BL does Winnie. I think that is about to change!

This morning I took a look at Disapproving Rabbits and sort of rapidly scrolled down through about 5 posts .. the pictures. What a horrid start to a day ... rapid fire, unrelenting disapproval!

IT'S SURE NOT STARBUCKS ......

I thought I ordered a double yogurt, banana topped, triple thick, craisin whirred, pineapple whiz with a nasturtium blossom - oh, and a parasol.

All there is, is this naked bean-dipped dishwater without even a diaper. Must be RG's ....... at least it is hot. "Spina" ... anybody know what that means?

This may be the weekend to break the ice on Sticky Bunns ... which is the name of the caper .. by almost unanimous vote! I think Baxter and/or Zoey might get stuck-up somewhere! Stay tuned and for gosh sakes, get your bunnies out there!

TAKING NO CHANCES !!!!

All this talk about IKE has The Princess checking her hay stash under her little outside shelter.

Either that or she is impersonating a troll under a bridge!

We are a LONG way from IKE! Like maybe 2,000 miles!

If you play pinochle you'll feel for poor me. I got a double Pinochle DEALT to me, won the hand, but lost the game on that hand ... boo hoo.

MAN THAT CLASHES .....

I guess that box needs a better paint job! Sorry about that Goldie.

My printer is on the fritz... think I need a new color cartridge .. can't print a big bunny picture to stick up yet ... but soon ... I've found just the place to start with!

IT RAINED AWHILE BACK ....

Savannah has a great spot to sit out the rainy dribble here ... but now, we have had a week or more of really nice weather, with a week more to come! Finally ......

Sounds like bunnies are going to be sticking up all over before long! Let us know and we will get them on this nifty web-page we are going to make (promise) !!!!!

Company here .. time for a pinochle game ... catch ya all later.

IS IT DINNER TIME YET ????

Lucky has just raised his head, which was also smooched onto the deck floor too - he can relax pretty good!

Listen. the Avery 3383 sticky-back paper is the type that is easy to remove and so good to use for sticky bunns! I can't get it here in our little town so I plan to print on plain paper or card stock and just use some tape. We don't want to be accused of defacing anything ... =:(

Myhouserabbit has a cute example of "almost" Sticky Bunns! Take a peek .. it certainly is the idea we are after!

THE HELP HERE IS PATHETIC ....

You would think the maintenance guy would get right on this, what with the rainy season coming and all ...
Bunny Lady and a friend went crabbing the other day ... this is a GINORMOUS Dungeness - legal is anything beyond the last notch on the right there; it is rare to get a crab bigger than the gauge! They brought home limits! 5 each. There are very large, very dangerous claws right up front, this guy just happens to have them turned so they can't be seen. 15-20 minutes in boiling, lightly salted water.

Looks like Sticky Bunns is the preferred name of our adventure .. now awaiting some stick-ups! Ready, Set, Go .... we'll cobble out a Mission Statement as we go along!

HOW ABOUT MY NOSEY ???

Just like Winston's toseys, my Nosey came with me too! It looks great when it wiggles! - Racer

LIKE MY TOSEYS ?????

No, I don't have them done special ... they just came that way! .... Winston

Time to start getting pictures of your bunnys stuck up in strange places. Then post a picture of it and comment here so I can grab the pic and put it on a special web-page, where all of them will go!

Get over to TheQiPapers site (at the left, near the bottom) to vote on a name for this caper and suggest some words for our Mission! Sometime next week we will finalize all that and publish the first edition of the web-page with whatever pix we have by then!

Woo Hooo ...

SAY, LISTEN BOOGEY ....

Gosh, Zoey got a nice wonderful mushy compliment from Boogey in Baton Rouge today. But Zoey is all spoken for .. by me and the Bax. She is quite happy with the arrangement too, so will remain an affectionate pen-pal of Boogey. Thanks just the same Boogey Boy.

YOU TRYING TO KEEP ME IN THE DARK HERE ???

No Chico .. it's just that it has been a long day for old RG and some things can maybe wait a bit! Besides, this new "Stick 'Em Bunnies Up" caper will be much better if it ripens a bit more!!!!

Sure been a spate of nice weather lately - we'll take it.

You may have read about the horrible rampage shooting here in Skagit County yesterday - right near The House if Rabbits it was. Sad and tragic. RG was caught up in the police chase ... cops going both ways in droves on the Freeway. Glad we and all we know are OK.

WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM FRIENDS .....

This is me, Baxter. I do look like Benji, but I am MUCH bigger - I am a Mini-Lop while Benji is a Holland. From under the table here I must clarify what Benji so eloquently said ...

Once the details get worked out, you are to use a picture of your bunny, make it fairly big, and stick it someplace strange or different .. like Tyler and Sydney were stuck onto a hydrant and a dumpster! Then post a picture of it on your blog. RG is going to get ahold of those pix and put them on a Web-page too and everybody can see that and do whatever they do with those things ...

Stay tuned and some of the instructions will be at T and S's blog ....

Now you'll parden me, it is time for my nightcap, a snuggle with Zoey, and lights out ....

Bax.

A GRAND BUNNY PRONOUNCEMENT ....

Here I am, Benji, up on my "box" to give a brief speech.

There is an "idea" being floated that all 2-foots that have bunns should put a big picture of their bunn or bunns in some strange place and then take a picture of it to share!

If it works out, Rabbits' Guy, who lives here and apparently does not have enough to do, will make a web page and put those pictures on there, so we can see them all together and share them with our friends and so forth!

The lady that cares for Tyler and Sydney is cooking up the official rules and methods, so maybe she will have more important stuff about it. For example, we need a Mission statement and probably an official name, like "Bunns in Strange Places" or whatever else we can get going for us.

Maybe for now be thinking about this golden opportunity to make a great mark upon the world, and stand by for more info .... post up (or comment) any good ideas you have!

Thanks RG for helping me with this grand pronouncement.

You can see the first, and very fine, examples of this caper at T and S's site!

Yours, Benji ...........