Bunny Magic: The Simon and Olive Show

[JjGoesBounce]

how. you're on ur 3rd page. i hate u. jk. (remember i'm 12 so like text tlk is my language)

 

[piperknitsRN]

In Which We Discuss Bunny Bliss

Now, I've watched my bunnies "bliss out" beside each other, but I've never been a recipient of the much-coveted bunny kisses.

Until today.

I was on the floor with my bunny Olive (Simon having retired to underneath the couch) and she started grooming my sweater, then nibbled delicately on my glasses, then whiskered my hair lightly, and finally gave me little bunny kisses on the forehead.

I had no idea she had it in her!

What a bun!

 

[JjGoesBounce]

you read me blog now!
OOH! CUTEEEEEEEEE PIE! I want to snorgle her!

 

[piperknitsRN]

(Blurry) Bunny (Road) Bump:

A little snuggle session:happybunny: :

Honeymooning :hearts

 

[JjGoesBounce]

AASAAAJ!
that waws me dieing of cuteieness

 

[funnybunnymummy]

Cuteness overload!

:thud:

Rue

 

[piperknitsRN]

funnybunnymummy wrote:

Cuteness overload!

:thud:

Rue

Aww.... thanks! :biggrin2: I think I need a better camera (or learn Photoshop) because of Simon's pink eyes and the eye-glare in general...

 

[funnybunnymummy]

I don't use Photoshop, I use PaintShopPro and PhotoStudio, which came with my Canon camera. The latter has a red eye removal tool which is really easy to use. Just point and click! But basically any kind of art or photo program will work for touching up photos.

Hope that helps!

Rue

 

[piperknitsRN]

funnybunnymummy wrote:

I don't use Photoshop, I use PaintShopPro and PhotoStudio, which came with my Canon camera. The latter has a red eye removal tool which is really easy to use. Just point and click! But basically any kind of art or photo program will work for touching up photos.

Hope that helps!

Rue

I have a Canon, too, but it's older (can't remember how old, actually) and needs upgrading. Thanks, Rue!

 

[piperknitsRN]

:bunny18 Thanksgiving Day Delight: :bunny18

"Tell me your secrets..." :bunnieskiss

:bunnyhug: "Why hello there, mommy... Don't mind us...":bunnyheart

:bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt::bunnybutt:

 

[piperknitsRN]

"Die Mr. Eraser, Die!!" In Which Mr. Eraser Meets His Untimely Demise At The Paws and Teeth of El Bunneros.

This was me last night:

:bed:

Unfortunately, as a result of my lassitude, the bunnies didn't get shut away properly, as I usually do.

This resulted in dire, dire consequences for Mr. Eraser, formerly of #2 Bookcase Place, Lower Level, in The Land of Living Room.

WARNING! GRAPHIC IMAGES OF DEFILED PENCIL ERASER FOLLOW!

Nobody's talking, but I suspect this heinous crime was the work of Ninja Bunny or Bunnies in residence. h34r2

My boyfriend strongly suspects Miss Olive (who has the appetite of a honey badger, it's shockingly true) but no arrests have yet been made according to investigators. onder:

All's I can say is I hope the little buggers--aka bunnies--poo out the remains of poor Mr. Eraser without complication; I feel really dreadful about this--both for the untimely demise of Mr. Eraser, and the digestive tracts of my poor (but sooooooo not innocent) little bunnies.

No more party time for bunnies at night, is all I can say about this latest round of ruckus.

:trio <========== NO MORE FOR :happybunny: and:bunny19. Sorry, Charlies. Erasers are for paper, not bunny tummies.

 

[funnybunnymummy]

Oh dear. They really did a number on Mr. Eraser, didn't they?

Eat your hay, bunnies, and poop out all the incriminating evidence!

Rue

 

[piperknitsRN]

funnybunnymummy wrote:

Oh dear. They really did a number on Mr. Eraser, didn't they?

Eat your hay, bunnies, and poop out all the incriminating evidence!

Rue

Yes, they did. It wasn't a little love-nibble--it was all out warfare on poor Mr. Eraser.

Olive is, naturally, eating (her top favorite activity). Simon doesn't usually eat much during the day, and usually sleeps under the couch, which he's doing now, so I wonder who ate the eraser--if they both did or just one of the Dynamic Duo.

I should set up a webcam!

 

[piperknitsRN]

I really detest this time of year in the Pac Northwest. Even on a gorgeous, sun kissed day like today--after days' worth of pouring rain--it's dark out by four thirty, and by six o'clock, I feel like crawling into bed. I need light, preferably sunlight, to exist happily... which is why I love the summers here. Long, long days filled with lovely light. But these winter days full of rain and dark just drive me cuckoo. :craziness

To add to today's frustration, I had to spend the entire day running around Seattle begging store clerks at various places to help me fix a weird glitch in Powerpoint that screwed up my entire presentation. The solution was so counter-intuitive that there simply wasn't anything intuitive about it, period. You had to add Japanese language support, then click this, then click that, then unclick this other box... Like, how on earth is adding Japanese language support an intuitive move when your entire presentation is in English???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? :grumpy:

I tried everything, including invoking the names of several different gods (we won't say whether or not those names were invoked in vain, but let's just say the temper tantrum I threw at my computer wasn't a pretty sight.) ssd:

I would have never figured it out on my own, but thanks to the brilliant folks at the Microsoft store, I had an answer, even if it meant doing the whole presentation over, using this very laborious, "click, click, unclick, click" process for each and every single freakin' slide. I just about wanted to throw my computer (a Mac) across the room by the time I was done, especially since it now looks like I'm gonna have to retire my iPhone of three and a half years (it's ancient in the world of gadgets) because it no longer charges properly, nor does it synch with my computer's iTunes, as the memory has long since reached capacity on the thing.

Also, I'm not sure if the weird message I get when I try to charge my phone is because the bunnies apparently not only attacked Mr. Eraser, they went in for a double assassination and did a bunny mafia hit on my nearly brand new USB power charger for my phone. Yup, on closer inspection, the thing has all the little toofy-toof-marks of a wabbit or wabbits unknown (well, known, but shall remain nameless). Cleverly, they didn't sever the thing in two, which would have given me an instant clue as to what the problem was, but it certainly was nibbled on at some point. God Bless America, that's annoying! :X

However, this is really my fault (bad bunny proofing means you have only yourself to blame when your stuff gets demolished by those attack bunny fangs...), so there's only so much griping I can do.

Besides, the bunnies seem no worse for the wear from their unforeseen attack on poor Mr. Eraser, so I suppose I should just shut up and be thankful no one succumbed to bowel obstructions.

Eh, the life of a bunny mom. It gets, uh... interesting, at times, doesn't it? :wink

 

[piperknitsRN]

Nippity-Do-Dah.

So... I wanted to clip Simon's nails today. For some reason, the front paws grow faster than the back paws, and he's in need of a trim. I put him on my lap and got a "not a happy bunny" response. Struggle, struggle. Pet, pet. Struggle, struggle, and NIP.

Yup, I got nipped twice and couldn't finish the rest of his paws, though I quickly checked the back paws and they seemed ok (should be; I just trimmed them a couple of weeks ago, it seems).

I am going to have to get him used to the nail clipping--he really, seriously flips out when I go to touch his paws (which sucks for my tender limbs, because he pinch nips and ouch, it hurts!) I have a sneaking suspicion he wasn't handled very often when he was a baby (or grew to dislike it) because he gets all googly-eyed and stressed whenever I pick him up, and god forbid I touch his paws. I got nipped at the base of my thumb and also on my thigh (good thing I was wearing jeans). Didn't really hurt, but didn't exactly feel good, either.

And Olive wasn't having much to do with the clippers today, either. I cut maybe two nails trimmed before she flipped herself off her back and foot flicked away in a mighty huff.

Rabbits. You just can't please somebunnies, you know? :biggrin2:

 

[piperknitsRN]

So much for second cut hay. My bunnies eat it, but they aren't wild about it like their first cut hay. I find this amusing, since most bunnies love second cut hay, and are equally if not more so enamored with third cut hay. Leave it to my bunnies to prefer the coarser, thicker, seed-head rich first cut hay.

Not much going on in bun world, other than me scheming up more ways to get Simon through a nail cutting without me getting bitten. Luckily, it's another month or so before I have to worry about that chore again, and I think I'll just take him to the vet, if possible, to have them trimmed. He's otherwise a very gentle rabbit, but something tells me he wasn't handled much when he was a wee one (he's growing. Oh, how he's growing. But I still maintain--wishful thinking though it may be--that he's not a full New Zealand White rabbit, and thus won't get as big as 9-10lbs. Watch me eat those very words when he does reach that weight. )

I wish I had a scale to keep track, but visually, he looks like he's getting bigger--or else he's just getting fatter. He was a little underweight when I first got him, so between the hearty diet of hay, greens and pellets--plus carrots or apples or bananas every once in awhile--and the natural progression of time, he seems to be plumping up nicely.

They both don't seem any worse for the wear after the unfortunate Mr. Eraser ingestion episode on Thanksgiving Day. Eating, poo'ing, and normal behavior.

All's quiet on the western front. Til next time...

 

[piperknitsRN]

HAPPY NOMMING! :biggrin2:

I just think Olive looks so cute in this picture (and Simon looks ever so disapproving of the way she's chewing her strand of hay on his head.)

 

[JjGoesBounce]

AWH! Too cute!
'Member bloggy friend???

Jj

 

[piperknitsRN]

Yup, I remember. It's hard to get good pictures of these two--Simon has red eyes that glow when his picture is taken, and Olive has a dark brown face... plus the lighting at my place is horrible, and we're not having long days any more with lots of sunshine... so my pictures turn out blah.

If you're reading this blog (I know you are Jjgoesbounce) please give a shout out and let me know... always interested to hear about other people's bunnies and experiences!

 

[funnybunnymummy]

I've been reading (and enjoying!) your blog.

Rue