Rabbit Sunday

[nightdog_barks]

There was a cottontail in our backyard last night. Layla, needless to say, was very excited and wanted to go chase it, but we wouldn't let her (we are very mean). The cottontail could tell it was being watched (by us and the dog), and so it just sat still for a while. Then it relaxed enough to look around, and then enough to forage around in the grass and dirt. Layla eventually got bored and decided to take a nap. :D

Finished a very good book -- Wake, by Anna Hope. The story follows three women -- Ada, Evelyn, and Hettie -- through one week in November, 1920. The Great War has only been over for two years, and its effects are still rippling through their lives. I really enjoyed this short novel and give it two thumbs up. Now reading Simon Sebag Montefiore's new history of the Romanov dynasty, and so far it is excellent.

The weather is still wildly unseasonable -- much too warm, and today we are waiting for rain.

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[topaz_eyes]

That bun was very chill, considering. :-D

Spring is officially here as of last Friday. The Mister saw gophers running on the prairie. (The true arbiters, heh.) It seems way too early.

[nightdog_barks]

Heh, I suspect that the bunnies around here are probably, like the squirrels, close to half-tame because of people feeding them. Plus cottontails seem to have weird counter-instincts -- a few months ago I was walking Layla late at night and one actually came toward us instead of running away. I told the little guy that was a bad idea, and it appeared to reconsider and took a different path. Layla was disappointed. :D

Gophers! I think I have only seen a gopher once -- it was on a golf course, which would mean it was in either Ohio or Michigan.

And ... wait, from Googling gophers, I think it was a woodchuck that I saw. Which are apparently also known as whistlepigs, which is a truly awesome name! *g*

[topaz_eyes]

Apparently the gophers (more correctly, Richardson ground squirrels) are semi-tame where the Mister works. He's said that he's been within 5 feet of gophers noshing on grass, and they don't move.

Kinda like the deer in our town. Those critters know they're perfectly safe. The Miss has passed within a few feet of deer feeding, and they're like "Sup, human?" and go right back to eating. Of course, the deer are smarter than humans; at least the deer know how to use the crosswalks.