A Small Slice of Saturday

Some Saturdays at the Northern clan's house are enough to make NorthernDaddy want to go back to work. Immediately - no waiting for Monday to come around. The reason? NorthernToddler. (also known as NorthernQuizMaster/NorthernStuntMan/NorthernMonster/and sometimes simply as StopItNowPlease)

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NorthernMommy gets to deal with little NorthernTerror NorthernToddler on a daily basis now that school's out for the summer. So, when Saturday rolls around, NorthernDaddy is first in line to provide relief from the Terrible Twos. Lucky me.

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Today started early - out of bed at six am to head up to a local rabbitry to see if we can find a replacement for Guy. (Remember Guy? The pet rabbit that lasted just over a week here before he died....{it was of natural/disease causes - not because I barbecued him. Really, people: I'm only that harsh at work!}....let's observe a moment of silence for Guy...) Apparently, people who raise meat rabbits get up early; I mean, why exactly do we have to be there at eight on a Saturday morning? The rabbits are in cages - they're not exactly going to have run off to a far corner of the pasture if we show up a little later! Anyway, we did end up with a new pet bunny. You'll be properly introduced later in this post.

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We did some of the normal chores, napped, ate lunch, and then it was time for NorthernDaddy and NorthernToddler to run some errands - to give NorthernMommy some time alone with her gardening. We ran to the feed store, hit the grocer's, and then raided the pet store for bunny supplies.

While at the grocery store, NorthernDaddy spotted a pretty and bright floral arrangement and picked it up to bring home to NorthernMommy. (Always looking for things to make NorthernMommy happy! Besides, it's been almost a month since I brought her flowers...)

Aren't they kinda nice looking? The multi-colored pot is quite eye-catching, and can be reused later. NorthernMommy likes them.

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NorthernMonster likes them, also. He found a flower that had broken off in transit (hey- the car had two bags of feed, four bales of wood shavings, and a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff in it - not a whole lot of space to properly carry flowers!), and made a mess of the house with it. When he was done playing with that (actually, when we took it away from him), he went and pulled another flower out of the arrangement and went beserk with it. Evidence below....After we corrected him from messing up the flowers, NorthernToddler decided to sit in his chair. In Daddy's chair. NorthernToddler will now be known as HeyManGetDownFromThereBeforeYouBreakYourFoolNeck...WeShouldaGotAPuppy.Enough two-year-old antics. We shall move on to the new pet bunny. I say pet bunny because there is still a chance that we will be raising meat bunnies in the future (you thought we were nuts for getting the chickens - we're just crazy enough to go through with the rabbit thing, too!).

We can call our new rabbit a "rescue bunny" because we got it from a local couple who raise rabbits to sell the meat. It just happened that they recently got some new stock in from their breeder, and that NorthernMommy was talking to the right people to find out about this rabbitry, and that we found one we liked out of this small group. (We were choosing from a group of about five rabbits. We were not choosing from the almost 100 other rabbits that were already on their pathway to somebody's dinner plate - especially not the ten pound white rabbits with the red eyes.....)

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Our new bunny is named "Guy". No, not really - that's just what NorthernToddler said her name was. There are two problems with calling the new bunny "Guy" - one, the dead bunny was named Guy; and two, the bunny is a gal, not a guy. So, the official name for the new bunny is "Autumn". The color of her fur reminded us of some Fall leaves, we like Fall, and it's funny to hear NorthernToddler try to pronounce "Autumn", so that is her name.

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Housetraining starts early around here....at least I think that is what's going on in this picture. It could really be a photo showing the young rabbit's complete domination of our house..."I am bunny. You will feed me. I will sit on you."

The bunny has been the sanest thing about this Saturday. Between wrasslin with NorthernToddler, running errands, and dealing with some weird stuff (chickens playing hide-and-seek), it's been quite a day! Time to go to sleep!