A Mountain Spirit: Easter Bunnies!

This might be a quick post - today has been a whirl-wind of a day. It started at 7:30 this morning when my alarm DIDN'T GO OFF! We have one of those fancy sets itself type clocks where it updates itself through a computer chip. Well apparently the geniuses didn't tell the chip that this is a leap year, so the days of the week were off on the clock (something I didn't notice until THIS MORNING). Well, we have an alarm that goes off on the weekdays and a separate one that is set for later on the weekends. To make a long story short, the clock still thought it was Saturday and didn't go off this morning at it's normal weekday time. Luckily I rolled over thinking - boy, it should be about time for the alarm to go off. Yeah...an hour ago! So I ran around like a mad woman and went in to work sans shower. TGFH (Thank God For Headbands). Oh. and I think I have pulled a muscle in my back. Awesome...

Ok, so the next pets you will meet today are the two foo-foo bunnies. They both, like all of our other animals, have interesting stories to tell if you will listen. So - here's the first bun bun -

This is Latte. He is the first of our 'stray bunnies'. Back in our old Shoe Box house we lived in (literally the size of a shoe box. ok maybe not literally but it was really small. 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom and 1 closet. no seriously - 1 closet) he wandered into our yard one day. Now, as you can see from the picture, he is OBVIOUSLY not a wild bunny. We think our rednecky neighbors were fattening him up to eat him and he was lucky enough to escape (and since we have 'Animal Suckers' written somewhere in our yard, he came to us.) He is very tame as far as bunnies go and lived in the house for a very long time after we found him (or he found us). I sadly don't have any old pictures of Latte - these were taken today. I honestly used to have more - they were lost in the 'computer apocalypse of 2004' I believe. Latte was a good house bunny and was litter trained (to his cage - not to cat litter. FYI - cat litter is bad for bunnies because they might eat it - always use natural materials for bunny litter - but not cedar chips - that makes them sick too). But if you have ever had a bunny they are not the nicest smelling animals. Especially male bunnies. Enough said. He lives outside now with his brother - our next bunny -

This is Baxter. He was another stray bunny. Logan found him down town in our local park when he was a tiny tiny baby. Once again - obviously not a wild bunny. We think he was probably dumped there sometime after Easter and when the kid got tired of a wild rabbit. Baxter is close to the opposite of Latte. Latte likes to be rubbed and pet and hugged on. Baxter wants no part of human involvement what-so-ever (except for bringing him food, water, and hay). He tried to be an indoor bunny for awhile but was so wild and unhappy he finally got moved outdoors into the bunny condo. Now - once again for those of you who haven't owned many rabbits - male rabbit + male rabbit = death and destruction. Male rabbits don't get along with one another living together SOOOOOOOOOOOOO - both of our rabbits have been neutered and are the best of friends now. It's amazing what happens when all of those raging male hormones are taken out of the mix huh?

So to leave you - here are some pics of the bunnies - my favorite are when Baxter was trying to be an indoor bunny - note that he believes he has found his mommy...

What??? I'm invisible!!