The Bunhalla Bunnies 2010

[kirbyultra]

Ew!!! I would I have probably gotten very nasty with the guy if someone tried to pull that kind of stunt on me, serious or not! That is really creepy!

 

[Dragonrain]

I know right! I was so disturbed. I remember this was right (like a few days) after that guy on a bus in Canada (I think) randomly cut the head off of the the guy sitting next to him. :shock:

All I could think about, was omg, I pissed this guy off, now he's going to try to cut my head off or something!

A bit irrational I know but there was something really really off about this guy.

 

[Myia09]

I frequently take the city bus and am quite aware of all the wierdos! Ugh! I don't blame you for not wanting to go.

I always get nervous before leaving too...

although I am interested in seeing how long this care sheet is...turns out to be a book lol!

 

[kirbyultra]

I think that frequent bus-riders for rather long distances (not like a city bus) do tend to attract some odd people. I live near the NYC Port Authority and there are SO many weirdos there 24/7 -- it could just be me, but I just have this image of wackos being bus frequenters. LOL

I have taken the bus to Boston and D.C. before and haven't had the distinct pleasure of encountering any obvious weirdos though! I hope that you don't run into another one :wink

 

[Dragonrain]

Yup well I'll be at Port Authority early tomorrow morning! I've been taking the buses between Port Authority and MA for probably over 5 years now - to get back and forth between my parents and Chris. There are sometimes some pretty strange people on the buses, but that one guy was the only person who I ever actually had a problem with.

 

[Dragonrain]

Sayonara RO! I'm off on my trip nice and early tomorrow morning, and I'll be out in the middle of no where, so I'm pretty much going to be completely cut off from technology.

I'll picture spam when I get home! I'm planning on taking a bunch of them.

Hope everyone has a great week!!

 

[kirbyultra]

Have a good trip!!

 

[Dragonrain]

I'm back! Still in one piece.

Since I know it's what everyone cares about the most - I'll update on the pets.

Chris did an amazing job watching them all for me! Even despite the fact that I had no cell phone reception at all while I was in Maine, so for the most part he was on his own. I was so worried when I couldn't get my 3 times a day updates on everyone.

The bunnies are doing great - I'll have to clean their cages really well tonight since Chris didn't keep things as clean as I like too, but other than that they are perfect. They all came running up to me when I got home, it was so cute.

The fish and frogs are good. The filter I had in my frogger tank broke while I was away so that sucks, but the frogs are fine. Their tank was smelly when I got home but I got a new filter set up and running and have been keeping a close eye on the water perimeters for them.

Geckos are great. I think Aurora is gravid again. I'm hopeful that her next clutch will be fertile but we'll see.

Kitsune is good too He was a pain in the butt for Chris but I can understand why, because he's use to me being home with him all day and he suddenly had to spend most of the day home alone, so he had a lot of extra energy when Chris was home.

As for my trip - I had a good time but am glad to be home! It was a ton of traveling, I'm so sick of being in a car now. The camp site was a lot of fun but we really had to rough it - they didn't even have and facilities like a flushing toilet or showers. :rollseyes But it was tolerable, mostly since we only ended up staying there 2 nights.

On Sunday we hiked up the mountain. I'm using the term hike loosely here, it was more like rock climbing than hiking. The trail was a very very steep climb over tons of boulders for most of the climb. We did get to the top though! In total it took us 11 hours to get to the top and back again.

We did a little nature sight seeing on Monday morning and then ended up leaving the camp ground a little early. We left Monday afternoon even though we had paid to stay until Tuesday morning. But we where all really sore, and there was really bad weather Monday, so we decided we didn't really want to hang out in the rain and left early.

I spent Monday, Tuesday, and some of Thursday just hanging out at my parents house. We went to the beach a couple of times and I helped my brother repaint his room. It was nice to spend a few days with my family, I don't see them all that often.

My dad drove me home yesterday and of course our drive was almost 2 hours longer than it was suppose to be because we got stuck in horrible NYC traffic. My dad and brother spend the night and then left this morning.

Chris is so sweet. He must have missed me. When I got home yesterday he was still at work, but he had three new flower plants that he got me placed around the apartment, and each one had a really sweet letter attached that he had written to me each of the three nights when we didn't get to talk to each other. <3<3

I have a bunch of pictures, but I think I'll post this and put them in a separate post.

All in all, I had a great time. I missed Chris and the pets and wish I didn't have to spend so much of the trip sitting in the car, but it was really nice to get out away from the city for awhile!!

 

[kirbyultra]

Welcome home!! I'm so glad the pets are doing so well. Your trip sounds great! Not my kind of fun, but I'm sure the view from the top changes everything.

I gotta say, Chris sounds like a great guy who really loves you!! That is *so* sweet. My husband would never write me letters LOL How adorable!!

 

[Dragonrain]

I'm going to just post some random pictures. I have a toon of them, but I won't post them all.

Here's a bunch of random ones of the mountain that I took during the climb, and at the top.

Some of the local wildlife...

This was a waterfall that was right next to our camp site...

From the beach...

Sorry for the crazy picture spam. I didn't know which pictures to post so I just did a bunch.

 

[myheart]

Sounds like you had a pretty good time. It is good to have you back though....

Some of the pics from the mountain-top are breathtaking!! You were very fortunate to have been able to do a climb like that and get those kinds of views. Thanks for sharing them with us.

I know, as nice as it is to go and have a little adventure, the best part is coming back home. I agree with Helen, Chris was very thoughtful with leaving a few notes for you. That was very sweet of him to do....lucky you!!

 

[Dragonrain]

Thanks!

The view from the top was amazing. I feel like my pictures don't even do it justice. I have a video too that I want to upload later maybe.

I am glad to be home though. It's nice to relax for just about the first time this week. I'm still sore from the climb even though it was on Sunday, I think because I never really got a chance to relax at all since then. I've been running around doing more hikes, swimming across lakes, sitting in the car for hours. It's so nice to just spend time with Chris and the animals and sit down and do nothing!

I cleaned the bunny cage last night but I still have to vacuum and stuff today. They are so cute! I really missed their cute little faces, but I'm glad they did so well with Chris watching them. Barnaby threw a little fit on me last night though while I was cleaning. I put his toys on top of his wooden house again, because then they are out of the way when I clean. Then he violently threw them back on the floor then thumped at me and went away to sulk. He's been giving me the evil eye just about since I got home haha. I'll have to try to find a way to get on his good side again.

 

[Myia09]

Haha Barnaby...tooo adorable

 

[Dragonrain]

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There's a short video of the view from the top of the Mt. I posted a ton of pictures too on my facebook, for anyone who's my friend on there. For anyone who's not and might want to be...

http://www.facebook.com/Dragonrain

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Barnaby is a goof. He seems to have forgiven me now. I gave him some banana :biggrin:

My mom gave me her old sewing machine, because she got a new one! I spent a lot of time today making a curtain type thing to go over the door of the bunny room, since they don't have an actual door there. I think it came out cute, especially considering that this is the first time I've sewn anything probably for like 6 years. I have a bunch of fabric and stuff too that my mom didn't want anymore, I think I'm going to make a bunch of hammocks for the bunnies and am going to attempt to make stuff for the dogs crate.

 

[Dragonrain]

It's hard to get back into the swing of things after being away.

It's just weird because now that I'm home, I have to go back to doing everyday boring stuff like going to the laundromat and cleaning the kitchen...but just a few days ago I was hanging out at the top of the highest mountain in Maine!

I can't wait until Chris and me and our little animal family can move out of the city. Then we can do stuff like go hiking and stuff every day of the week if we want!

 

[Dragonrain]

So I noticed when I got home, that Berry's fur looked really dull and she's shedding, agaaain! It's driving me insane how much my crew is shedding this summer. I guess it's all the heat waves we've been having or something, but it seems like they're all going through at least one extra molt this summer. I wouldn't think the heat would be effecting them so much considering they have their AC on constantly, but somethings going on because I never remember them shedding this much before!

Anyways, I swear Berry looked good before I left last week. Then I got back, and there was a lot of shedded fur in the cage and Berry looked like this...

Yes she's dirty, too. I think that's carrot juice on her. No I'm not really sure how it got all over her head. But since Berry's stroke, she's not as good at cleaning herself as she use to be. I have to brush her a lot, and go over her fur with a damp cloth once in awhile to help keep her clean. It also helps that she lives with other bunnies who help to groom her.

My poor little lady. So I got her out for some girl time today and spent maybe an hour or so grooming her. I used four different brushes on her, and the amount of fur I got off her was insane.

:lookaround

You could build a whole nother bunny with that amount of fur!

I was so glad I got it off of her, can you imagine her and Ziggy and Barnaby ingesting that much fur? :shock:

Look at the difference her grooming made...

And even after that I still got more loose fur off her - I went and got my hands wet and ran them through her fur and got another hand full or so of fur off. I didn't take any more pictures though, because by that time Berry had had enough, and I was so covered in her fur that all I wanted to do was jump in the shower.

Now I'm just really hoping that Ziggy or Barnaby don't start up shedding again too. One at a time is more than enough!!

 

[kirbyultra]

Oh she's so pretty now that you pampered her with 4 brushes! She definitely looked fuzzy before that It does suck when you realize your bunnies are shedding AGAIN...

 

[Dragonrain]

Tell me about it. I'm so sick of shedding bunny fur. I'm going to be so happy when the summer is over and I hopefully get a break from my bunnies shedding. Barnaby is only 2 lbs, and the lops are 4 (Ziggy) and 5 (Berry) lbs, so tiny, it's crazy the amount of hair they shed! My dog is 15 lbs, bigger than all of them put together, and he doesn't shed anywhere near as much as just one of the rabbits does.

Aurora is looking nice and fat and she looks like she'll be shedding sometime tonight. I'm hoping that means eggs sometime in the next few days - hopefully fertile eggs!!

 

[kirbyultra]

Dragonrain wrote:

Tell me about it. I'm so sick of shedding bunny fur. I'm going to be so happy when the summer is over and I hopefully get a break from my bunnies shedding. Barnaby is only 2 lbs, and the lops are 4 (Ziggy) and 5 (Berry) lbs, so tiny, it's crazy the amount of hair they shed! My dog is 15 lbs, bigger than all of them put together, and he doesn't shed anywhere near as much as just one of the rabbits does.

Oh, tell me about it. My buns are bigger and they seem to all shed at the same time or thereabouts -- it kills me, and my allergies. Even my air filters cry for mercy! Peny is 6 lbs and she still has cactus butt fur. She's been at it since around June... at least the worst of it is over. Toby's fur is however by FAR the worst and he is the smallest at 3 lbs. He has the fluffiest, most cottony fur and it just floats about waiting to attack my nostrils...

 

[Dragonrain]

Penny's not that much bigger than Berry is then, only by a pound.

Barnaby is so crazy furry, and the weird thing is that out of all my rabbits, he sheds the least. I don't know if it's because his fur is different, more wooly?

But Ziggy and Berry have been so bad with shedding. It's nuts how much fur they lose! There is fur literally everywhere when they shed, all over the bunny room, blowing through the air - icks! Even after all that hair I got off of Berry yesterday, she's still shedding like mad this morning. I'm going to have to get her out and brush her again sometime today - not really looking forward to that. I like spending the time with her of course, but the fur sticks all over my clothes, gets in my eyes and bothers my contacts, gets in my mouth...pretty much just gets all over everything.

Dealing with shedding bunnies makes me want to pull my hair out! Ahh! I must have been crazy when I use to say I wanted like 10 bunnies haha...I'd loose my mind dealing with that much fur. With my luck, they'd all shed at the same time too!