3 posts tagged “cute”
It's Innisbrook Season…
This is the season where students nationwide get their little books of goodies and dreams of cool prizes. Their eyes full of hope that you’ll buy one of everything in the catalogue…
This is the season where it sucks to be popular with the local kids. XD
Lexi, John & Sandra Vargo’s daughter and our neighbor, came over with her Innisbrook catalogue all excited to sell something to “Amanda!” for her Kindergarten class. I open the door and she spills over the pages of pretty wrapping paper and chocolates.
*sigh*
My heart is too big to say no, that and the fact that I remember being that age and how hard it was to find buyers. Let’s face it, nobody wants to purchase something that is so obviously overpriced… but… their little smiles saying that they trust you to help them get to that next tier in cool prizes. It’s too much to resist!!!
So I agreed to make a purchase from Miss Vargo.
A friend and “distant” neighbor in our community, Michael & Andra Gardner’s daughter is also in Kindergarten this year and has brought home an Innisbrook catalogue and dreams of a $100 BestBuy card if she sells 100 items. Awwwwwssss… Bless her heart if Cheryl doesn’t dream big. ^ ^
I have my two commitments, I’m turning the other kids away… not that I wouldn’t buy something from them if they had something under $5… but I just can’t afford to drop $10-30 on each kid that stops by. *sigh*
Well... at least when we have a kid, we'll probably have the only one in the community and we'll be able to reap the neighborhood of their $20s with ease. (Ok, so that was a bad train of thought... oh well) ; )
Weekends are never long enough. 
Finally had some time to do NOTHING on Friday night. It was good. Stayed up and watched Weird Al polka videos on YouTube (as well as looking up favorites, of course.) Found some bunnies behind the house, been watching over them all weekend… I have a holey bucket covering them by day to protect them from the neighborhood calico whom has been known to leave dead bunnies in her owners back yard. By night I remove the bucket so momma can come feed her babies. Wild rabbits nurse once a night for about 15 minutes, the rest of the time they spend away so they don't draw attention to the babies.
They are doing very well! When I come out in the mornings, they have fat little bellies and they're just a little fussy. In the evening the fat bellies are gone and they start to get a little needy... it's cute.
Saturday was the big community block party… not that many people showed up. Minor disappointment. We had the Jefferson Fire Department come out, we fed them burgers and they gave the kids little bags full of fire safety coloring books, pencils and toys. That's awesome! I had to run interference on the babies after Lexi told some people about them. We all hung out until 8 or so and then some people went home while others headed over to our house to sit by the fire pit a while. Marshmallows were roasted. We hung out until midnight or so. Apparently, I'm still a kid magnet because I got a lot of love and nobody wanted to go home.
Sunday I woke up uber late… seriously, it was 12:30. Dave & Sonny were coming over in a couple hours so we got to work thawing another 25lb. block of ribs. We used the utility sink this time and they thawed a lot faster and easier. We set out four quarters of a rack and vacuum sealed the rest for the freezer. The boys came over around 5, they played cards while I finished making another batch of my BBQ sauce. I need to put a label on that stuff. It is teh yum. We had dinner, corn on the cob & ribs! After a good hand washing, they played cards well into the evening.
I went out to uncover the babies around 9 and they kept trying to crawl out of the nest! Every time I'd get them covered up by the bits of fur fluff, one would wiggle its way out. So I just poked the furry little head back into the rabbit hole one last time and went inside hoping that they'd realize that I wasn't mom ready to nurse and settle down.
Around 4 or 5 this morning the storms woke me up. I closed the bedroom window and lay awake thinking about the poor little darlings getting drenched. I kept reminding myself that nature has a way of helping outdoor animals cope with rain and storms but I couldn't help thinking that will all the rain out there, they could very well drown if enough water got into their nest.
I came out this morning to either A) Cover them with the bucket or B) Scoop them all up into a bowl to bring with me to work… I wasn't sure how good/bad a night they had. I came out and they were well covered and sleeping peacefully. They had a guest… a pinkie sized yellow slug. Ew. I removed it from the nest. They were all pretty damp but when I picked up "Spike" his belly was full and round. I did a quick head count. All accounted for. Might as well leave them to be for the day with the bucket to protect them from the storms. Momma will be back again tonight to care for her babies.
Awful lot of slugs in our back yard though… I counted 6 from the steps to the bunny nest. Ew. I dislike slugs.
I'll take more photos when I get home this evening.
A few people have asked why I haven't just taken them inside... well, I want to do what is best for them and taking them inside would only cause them a slow and painful death as they wouldn't get the very special imunity and important stomach bacteria they need from eating their mothers CTs, which is a type of fecal matter that they produce and eat only at night. Sound gross? Not really, many animals do that. Just be glad WE don't.
Anyways without that special night fecal snack, they would die shortly after eating solid foods because their body couldn't process the solids and they would have horrible diarhea on their way out the door. Sorry, I just can't do that. They've got to have a chance to live. I can protect them half of the time, at night... they're on their own.
Not too much to blog about yet today... Somehow, I still feel like blogging. Prepare for some absent minded rambling about whatnot and so forth.
Going to the gym after work today for my 1st of Three FREE Personal Training Sessions. So after work, we'll change and head over. Darren is trying to leave a few minutes early so that he can make his 4 o'clock appointment. Mine is at 4:30. I hope my meeting is productive. I really like the location and the equipment is top notch.
The cats were being super lazy-cute the other day so I had to snap a picture of them. Awww... my girls. You'll have to pardon the messy bed because I don't believe I feel like doing a Photoshop on the entire photo. They need a good brush down I have also decided to buy some 100% Organic cat shampoo. They're due for spring cleaning too!
Yesterday was the day FROM HELL!! Worked from 6:52am to 4:00pm without a break. Darren had some serious issues while installing for a client and he didn't get a break either. Also, we didn't really get to EAT anything until about 5 o'clock yesterday evening. I'm glad I have the prenatal vitamins else I might have had to eat my own foot.
The day ITSELF was fabulous! Went home and opened all the windows! It was very nice to have the cross breeze come through and clean the stuffy winter air out of the house. I turned off the gas to the fireplace and made sure that all of the valves were closed tightly. (This should save us a few bucks come the next gas bill!) *fingers crossed* Every little bit helps to save a lot in the long run environmentally and financially!
