Thumper AKA fuzzy butt!

[kmaben]

My mom use to put all these fancy big bows in my hair I always loved them. They would last about 8 minutes till I had crazy hair. I was a very high strung child always on the move. Usually the only thing my mom could grab as it flew by was my hair. One time I fell in a pool and my mom pulled me out by my hair. You could pull on my hair all day and I wouldnt even feel it any more. I think she ripped out all my nerve endings.

 

[PaGal]

Kmaben...Ouch! I guess you are used to having your hair pulled by now with that childhood. Ha!

 

[PaGal]

Morgan...nah, the guys don't bother me at all. Heck most of the time now they never come inside so I only see them when I go outside. Either they have a bladder the size of a whales or they are all peeing outside. Maybe most don't drink anything while here. Got me wondering now. Maybe it's best no to know!

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Now for pics...

 

[PaGal]

and more...

 

[PaGal]

I have some more ready to go but don't want to over do it...

Little miss black bun is a food fanatic. I tried giving each a craisin tonight. Now I said tried not because they haven't had them before or haven't wanted them before but because when I held one out the brown bun came over first and started to nibble so I let go but it was dropped as brown bun did not have a hold of it. Well Miss black came over and caught whiff of it. It had fallen just outside the cage and before I could reach for it she was shoving her face as far as she could between the bars in a frantic attempt to get that craisin. She was not only shoving her face so far that I was concerned but she was pushing with her legs to the point she wound up spread eagle in the cage. Goodness gracious! And yes she also managed to scarf down the other one which should have went to the brown bun. Just knocked him out of the way she did.

So one girl, the true animal lover of the bunch asked me how she could get close to the new buns, meaning how to get them to be calm around her and let her pet them. Besides letting her give them each a craisin, I suggested she sit by the cage and just quietly talk to them or read out loud to them. I know I spent a lot of time in the garden while the girls were inside because it was just so hot but several times when I came in she was sitting next to the cage and reading out loud. Good Girl!

 

[whitelop]

Those are some SAWEEET tan lines on your feet! Thats flipping amazing! I haven't had tan lines like that since I was like 17. LOL

That is so sweet that she wants to get to know the buns! How sweet of her to sit there and read to them. I bet they'll love her.

Those kittens are the cutest things. (I just tried to spell cute with a Q. :foreheadsmack They are both so adorable! I love kittens! This morning when I cleaned up cat poop from my kitchen, I thought about how much I really LOVE my cats. When I want to strangle them. haha. But I do love them. Those new rabbits are adorable too, they're so small compared to Thump.
And look at Thumper, is that him being attached to your legs? hahaha.

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

Those kittens are so cute! They are adorable! I really like cats. I'll be getting myself one very soon. The buns are so cute! Thumper looks really big standing at your feet. And when I look at the pics of the other buns they look so small compared to Thumper.

That's sweet that one of the girls loves animals and reads to them. I bet they will like her.

 

[PaGal]

Morgan...Ha! I usually wear flip flops at home so tend to get a good foot tan. Yes, that is Thumper going crazy over my leg. he's nuts!

Elise.. The kittens are fun. I like all animals though. The girls love to read. The twins we used to have to ask to read to themselves because they always wanted to read out loud. This girl learned to read by reading to the dog.

 

[PaGal]

We went drag racing on Saturday. Just me, hubby and a buddy of ours. I was going to race one of the girls atv's as it was bracket racing. For that you want not only a fast ride but even more importantly one that is consistent in it's performance and this one is. I wound up not racing however. I was so tired which I think might be due to the bites on my back as I have been extremely tired when I shouldn't be all week. Plus I wasn't feeling the best and it was sooooo hot and humid. Sweat just ran off of us all day. To make it worse we were there longer than we ever have been. I was so ready for a shower.

Our buddy's atv cut off during the first round practice so I hung back with him in case I could be of any help as he tried to get it running again. I made sure everyone had something to drink throughout the day. Once you line up for practice or the race you are there a while and can't leave so I bring drinks to them.

Because the buddy couldn't get his atv started again he decided to race the girls atv. I wouldn't try to explain exactly how bracket racing works but he could have won it all even though it is a smaller atv and there are ones there that actually have snow mobile motors which makes them very fast. It was hilarious though. The atv is a LT80. It's not the smallest of atv's but it is smaller and buddy is 6'2". His knees were up above the handle bars. He hadn't had a chance to run the practices so had no idea how fast it would run with him on it so had to guess at his time by knowing what the girl ran consistently last race and adding to it since it would run slower with his additional weight. That's why he didn't wins he picked a number but he ran faster than the number actually so he was out.

He did later get his atv running and actually came in at second place. It was an enjoyable day other than the horrible heat. We also had a thunderstorm roll through the stopped everything for a little while and made it even muggier.

On the way home hubby spotted a tree frog sitting on the dash. I jokingly told him to just not forget it was in the truck and get freaked out if it jumped on him. I also told him not to get startled if I yelled because I probably would forget. A little while later I let out a squeal as the darn thing landed on my head. I then tried to sit still figuring it wouldn't hurt anything to have a frog sitting on the side of my head in my hair and at least it wouldn't be hopping around the truck.

Apparently it left my head without me feeling it because a short while later hubby jumped, hit the console hard with his hand scaring the bejeesus out of me and something hopped across my legs. We eventually made it home and the first order of business was me getting the frog out of the truck as we figured he'd just die in the truck. So we added one more frog to our population.

 

[whitelop]

Ahh. Whats one more tree frog? Sometimes I find them in my house, haha. They're so funny and really hard to catch! Then I always have a few cats trying to catch them with me and thats scary, trying to fight the cats off and not kill the frog myself from too much force. LOL

I can only imagine seeing a grown man on a tiny four-wheeler. haha. Thats so funny! It was super muggy in Raleigh too, I was miserable. My hub and I are sunburned from standing outside. Well, he was playing disc golf and I was trying to keep AJ in the shady part of the play ground! haha. It was like 91 but with the heat index it was like 100. I was sweating all day long. haha.

At least you guys had fun though! I bet its so fun to do things like that. Too bad you didn't win that $5000 purse! (That must be a lovely handbag!)

 

[PaGal]

Morgan...the best way I found to catch the tree frogs without injuring them is to use a clear, plastic container. I have one that is a large jar. Since it's clear I can see what I am doing so I don't accidentally squish them. Usually they are on a door or wall. I will place the opening over them. This usually causes them to jump while the container is around them and usually they jump onto the inside bottom of the jar. I then move the jar off the wall or door enough to cover the top with the lid. I then take them outside and gently shake them out of the jar.

It was funny especially since he was going up against the stretch atv's. They are very fast and look it and here's this big man on a little purple and white normal looking atv.

Well we still have a shot at the gorgeous $5000 purse. Hubby thought it was this weekend but it's not. It's coming up though.

 

[Chrisdoc]

Just catching up, those pics of the kittens are gorgeous, what lovely faces. And that frog looks cute too. And well, the buns are adorable, I get a tan like yours as I wear flip flops to clean the terraces and end up with a flip flop foot tan. Thumper is so big. I was so laughing at the bun and the craisins. Houdini is just like that. He shoves his face through the bars as though he´s trying to get right out and he goes mad for them. If he had a chance he´d eat the other twos as well.

That racing sound s great and a large man in a small vehicle, bet that was comical. it all does sound exciting and another chance at that purse...hope you win it.

Doing hair. when I was younger I used to Irish dance in competitions and my mom used to put my hair in ringlets using either rags or rollers. I used to sleep in the rollers overnight, goodness knows how, they used to stick into my head and were so uncomfortable. A friend I used to work with used to French plait my hair. I remember when I used to take it out, my scalp used to itch and was really painful from the hair being pulled so tight.

 

[PaGal]

Chris...the new buns are coming along but my goodness they are so high strung compared to Thumper. I actually got Thumper to eat his first craisin today. He has always turned his nose up at them. I went to feed him a pinch of pellets by hand and he was going so crazy I wound up putting them down as I began to fear for my fingers in his haste to gobble them up. I then offered him a craisin which he inhaled without even a sniff. I guess he was so excited about pellets he was willing to eat anything.

I myself would love to win the purse as I could have a lot of fun with that much money. Ha!

I love anything Iris. Well Irish and Scottish. I swear I was a Celt in a past life. Ha! I remember what having rollers in your hair was like and trying to sleep. Almost impossible. I only have my hair up when working at home and always put it in a low pony tail and then braid it. It gets less knotted while in a braid. Otherwise I have to comb my hair throughout the day. The low pony tail keeps it from making my head and scalp hurt.

 

[PaGal]

I forgot about the race last weekend with the girls. We packed sandwiches to save spending some money and did PB&J as you don't have to worry about it going bad. Well there's a cat with a missing eye at the track that we have made friends with. She usually comes over and we'll pet her. So I told the girls they could feed her some of my sandwich. I know it's not the best food for a kitty but under the circumstances...Well right as the girls went to give it to her something scared her off. A while later a chicken came over and gobbled it up.

We did later manage to give the cat some as well as some water. The girls also were feeding cheese puffs to the chickens. So we had chickens hanging around us most of the day.

I just have to say I really love Thumper. I was cleaning his cage. I was trying to be quick because hubby needed me to buff a motor head for him. So I was half in and half out of his cage on my hand and knees but leaning down close as I was trying to reach through the back bars of his cage to clean up at least some of the hay that made it's way there and Thump kept coming and going for a while. Each time he would squish himself through under me, rubbing his back against my face as he did so. I'm just glad he isn't shedding at the moment or he would have made my face very itchy.

 

[whitelop]

Haha. I love to feed my chickens stuff like that, its so funny to watch them eat it. I like to feed them watermelon rinds. They get scared of them at first when I put them down, but then one brave one goes up to it and pecks it. Realizes its the good stuff and calls out a very sweet little chirpy call to the rest of them to let them know its the good stuff, so they all flock over and dive right in. hahaha.

It probably is a good thing that he's not shedding! haha. I swear, every time my Fat Cat comes to me she rubs the whole side of her body down my face and covers me in fur. It gets stuck in my chapstick and I feel like I can never get the fur off my face. LOL

 

[PaGal]

I'll have to remember that. We have three watermelons on the vine that are close to ripe. To save room I usually cut up the watermelon into small pieces and put it in a container in the fridge so I'll send the rinds to the neighbor for his chickens.

Which reminds me. his boy is crazy! When I went over to get some food to transition the buns over to my food the neighbor sent his son in with the chickens. They are in a large dog kennel split in half. They have some young ones they hatched on one side and adults on the other. Some of the young snuck over to the adult side and the neighbor told his son to put the young ones back. That crazy boy went in there just wearing socks.

It drives you nuts having animal fur on your face and it always seems impossible to get it off.

 

[PaGal]

It's going to be one of those weeks. I wanted to clean our expedition yesterday. It is full of sand from the races. I got all but the very back cleaned inside and didn't get to wash it because it started to storm. So I will have to go back to it. The garden is a disgrace. You can't tell I have been busting my butt trying to get the weeding caught up.

This morning I had to run to the post office to mail a package for hubby. Luckily it's only three miles from us but I had to make smokes first as I was out of supplies till yesterday but didn't have time. Not that I support smoking. Don't do it! Really don't! You will sooner or later wish you had never started. Then on the way to the post office my cherry fell off and burnt two holes in my shirt. I have never before burnt my clothing. It took a few moments before I felt the heat.

To top it off we have a short in the wiring of our explorer so the drivers window would not go back up for me. I'll have to keep trying to get it to go up as we will be getting rain and storms today.

On a good note, yesterday I only had to clean up a handful of poos from Thumper. I'm hoping it wasn't just a fluke and that he'll stop pooing like crazy on my floor.

I am thinking that when we finally get to renovate the buns room I would like to tile it instead of carpet. I usually prefer carpet as I like a softer floor for walking on and for me vacuuming and occasionally shampooing is less work than sweeping and scrubbing a floor regularly. But tile would be easier with the hay and having to try and vacuum while watching that my cord doesn't get eaten. With tile you don't have to worry about scratches or spills like you do with hardwood. Hubby's gonna think I'm nuts though. But then again he has surprised me more than once lately when it comes to the animals.

 

[whitelop]

I think tile would be awesome in the bun room! It would be SO much easier to clean and maintain, than carpet. You could get some rugs that are machine washable and throw them in the wash like once a week. Thats what I would do.

When I was like 19, I burned the crap out of my self with a cigarette cherry, huge hole in my shirt. Huge burn on my stomach. It was terrible. First and only time I've ever done that. But I've dropped my fair share under the seat, haha. Or in my lap, thats always the worst.

 

[PaGal]

I don't feel much like talking. It's been a bad day in more than one way but I did want to share that we have several wild buns either living in or just visiting our yard. One hangs out on one side of our house and I have spotted two on the other that I would say by the size and behavior are teenagers. By behavior I just mean they seem a bit more jumpy than I am used to seeing adult wild buns behave.

Hubby also said he saw a large bun running across our yard and then just quickly dropped to the ground and layed there a while. The neighbor lady brought up seeing a large bun in our yard as well. She hasn't seen Thumper but her hubby has and must have told her about him because the neighbor lady and our other neighbor upon seeing the large bun discussed whether or not Thumper might have gotten loose.

One of the younger buns came right up next to the house and was even eating some long weed strands growing between the stones that make up our patio and sniffed at our steps like he was thinking of coming up them. That would have been so cool as I was standing there right at the door watching him the whole time. He hung around for about 20 minutes. It was pretty interesting noticing the difference between him and my three.

 

[whitelop]

I wonder if the big bun thats running around is a large cottontail or if its a house rabbit that someone has let loose? I hope that its just a large cottontail.
I never see wild buns in my yard, but I do have a large field so thats probably better suited for them. I wish I did see more wild buns though, I love them.
I think wild buns are adorable.

How is Thumper doing?