Bunny Update

Good news and bad news

First, the smallest one who we called Rowan died Friday morning,
It was sad but Cleverwife did everything possible to help him,
sometimes life is just like that.

On a positive note, the rest are all growing like crazy,
gaining 0.9 of an ounce everyday.

that doesn't sound like much until you count the fact that the biggest only weighs
7.1 ounces. so that is like gaining 20 pounds a day if you were 200lbs.

The babies are so cool, I have no idea how I'm going to let them go.

One year later

Has it really been a year already?

It does not seem like a whole year has gone by.

Strange really, I thought that somehow with the passing of this year,

that my feelings about Dad's passing would somehow lessen, and that

I would be able to think about him more and not feel so anxious and edgy , and on the verge of tears when I do.

But time goes on .

The pain I felt a year ago is less now, and the sadness is slowly

lifting away.

Instead now there are times that I feel angry, mostly at me.

Because I am not the parent I want to be or that I feel the weasels deserve, or the Husband that such and amazing and beautiful woman that Cleverwife is deserves either.

That is a post for another time.

Today as I write this, another year has passed and in it's passing so much has happened,

Dad is gone and as I think about him, I realize what a fighter he was in so many ways.

His own dad died when he was only 4

I was lucky enough to get 38 years with him

He was all of our biggest supporters in what we wanted to do when we were kids.

He was very proud of and loved his grandchildren dearly.

I remember when he came out for #1 weasel's baptism, he was so happy, that you can clearly see it in his face. Later when he met the others it was the same way.

He went through 3 rounds with cancer and fought like a champion to the end.
I don't know if I have his strength.
I hope I do. There are times when I need it.
My only wish is that the weasels could have known him better.




I'm going to break my own rules and post a picture of him. If you are related to me, or a close family friend, this could give away my identity, but for the most part I should be safe.





There have been plenty of moments in the last year when I have felt like he was close to us.


Maybe If I could shut up once in a while


I could hear him.





(I Hope)

OMIGOD

Remember i told you about all of the rabbits we have?

Well, we didn't plan it, but two of them mated(whoops)

and we didn't know until the female started nesting behavior yesterday
so we looked up what the behavior meant and thoght she might be pregnant,
and there was also a chance that it could be false (it happens i guess)

so i built a nesting box just in case, (just in time too!!!)
less than an hour later there were six (SIX!!!)
new rabbits in the house.
at least we know who the dad is now !!

I'll post pictures as soon as i can

Moved

I know I haven't written anything in a while but that's because we have been very very busy.

We no longer live in crappy rental housing.
We are in our own house yay! (well, the bank owns 50% technically)

it has been a very hectic week, and now that we are in it is now the organising and storing of everything that we own (way too much!!)

The Bunnies even have their own room! just for them.
of course they end up all over the house when they are taken out : )


The boys seem happy.

Except for right now as the oldest weasel is giving his non stop commentary on every commercial that comes on the TV.
According to his Majesty he can say whatever he wants, because the commercials annoy him.

where does he get this that he shouldn't have to see the commercials because he does not want them.

It doesn't matter that I have explained to him countless times that the commercials pay for the shows he watches, as far as he is concerned it should be free.

Heaven help me

What the??

Cleverwife has just shown me something that makes me wonder about what the hell is going on inn this !#$%$%^% world .

In Just a days drive from where we live now,(this was the limit she placed on the search more or less) there is literally hundreds of dogs that have been rescued by dog rescue societies, or surrendered to shelters by their owners.

I say surrendered, because it is nicer than saying in some cases, that the animals were taken from these pieces of work by the proper authorities'
in one case the owner had puppies and their mother in a cage or pen that was surrounded by an electric wire.

and for fun once in a while he would separate the puppies from mom so that when the puppies wanted to feed, they would get shocked.

Surprised?

I'm not I read more and more every day about sociopathic sick people who think that animals are so far beneath humans that these "people" (loosely used here).
can treat them however they want.
it makes me sick inside.
we have currently 11 pets ( I think we would have more, but space, finances etc)
and we love them all I am devastated when one of the pets dies.

Why the hell do some people think that cruelty to animals is OK?

Serial killers and sociopaths usually start of being cruel to animals, then moving on.


things like this make me fear for the future.

Does this not make anyone else sick?

What's written on my forehead?

I swear to God the word "sucker" is up there.

this all started innocently enough,
For the middle weasels birthday, last year we got him a pet rabbit.
He called her Joy because he said that is what she brings him.

That's cool, and I happen to agree because well, Joy is about the
coolest animal I have ever met.

I call her a bitch
Bunny In Total Control of Herself
She ruled the house for a long time.

After we moved, there was a constant
can we get another bunny,
then one day last Feb,
we went out and got Mandela

I have spoken about him before
he is cool too, and is my little buddy,
i think he is funny, and he likes to snuggle a bit,
so that was cool.

Then Oldest weasel struck a deal to pay for part of a bunny for himself
( I admit it I'm weak)
Enter Harmony
she of the one ear flopped over and just about as cute as all can get.

Fast forward to April, and there I was placing orders, then driving alone at night to pick up
Peace and Steve from the airport,
Not only did I pay for said bunnies, I paid to ship them from another province
By Airplane, and then drive alone at night to another city to pick them up, and then return home with them.

Now there is talk of breeding them.
Manny and Steve like this,
Manny is all about the ladies

I know I am going to end up with more rabbits

I think I may post a picture of my forehead so if anyone reads this, they can tell me what is written there.

But you can check Joy out on Youtube

Whoops

the other day, the entire group of us was out and about looking for some new appliances
While I was away a few months back weasel 3 broke tthe stove, by dropping a metal can on the glass cooktop ( completely accidental for a change)

so we need to purchase a new one, while we were looking at the selection in one of the big box stores that deal in appliances and electronics, the weasels of death were amusing themselves by looking at video games, computers etc.

all of a sudden we hear an anti-theft alarm go off ( see where this is going ?)
Cleverwife looks at me and says where is weasel 3? ( she didn't say weasel 3 of course , she called him by his name)

I think at this point she was joking, but no sooner than she said this then he cam back to us in a hurry, and looking rather sheepish.

At this point weasel one arrrived on the scene to tell us that youngest had been looking at an Ipod and pulled too hard and set off the cable alarm, much to his surprise.

Whoops

(but I bet he won't do that again)

Idiots

Why is it that some times when you venture out in public,
you run afoul of some idiot trying to protect or police whatever small empire that they think
necessary to police?

Case in point.

the family all went out grocery shopping today,
and the boys went to another section of the store, to
look at some toys,
and thay then came back to us.
about two seconds after they came back to us ,
idiot #1 came up and said that he was an employee
of the store and that one of the weasels had jumped and waved his hands in some ones face.

I said ok, and that i would talk to him.I went over to where the rest of the family was, and the idiot followed me, and continued to identify himself as store security.
I asked him for proof of this , and he got the on duty manager to come, and verufy
his identity.
She did, so i told him that i understood his concerns and explained that I wanted proof that he was employed by the stire, because anybody could just say this.
the whole time, he was repeating himself, and getting louder and louder, and cleverwife had even offered to take the one weasel out of the store,

Idiotboy seemed to take offese to the fact that I questioned him on being a store employee, and was getting confrontational, so i said to him that he and I were finished, he told me that he wouldn't be talked to that way in his pl;ace of employment, and asked me to leave.

I told him that i wanted to speak to the manager, and he said go ahead, but wouldn't leave, so I told him that I would when he left, he still would not go, finally he left.
the manager informed me that he was actually an employee of another company that works for the storein theft reduction, and that becuse we were not stealing, he vcould not aske me to leave anyway, and she did not want us to leave.

she also had told Cleverwife that she did not like the way the guy handled things and the way he acted and that she wanted us to continue shopping there.


Later, as we were leaving, the guy was glaring at me and acting like there was aproblem

the only problem i see was his.

am I wrong in thiking he was way out of line?