Happy Monday ~ Catching Our Bunny!

   This morning at around 9am the girl who comes to help me on school days opened up our front door and yelled that the rabbit had gotten out. Now a random back story to this is that this girl grew up coming to this exact house almost daily as her Nana had lived here. When she was little she had a rabbit named 'Bun Bun' that lived here and one day Bun Bun got out and got killed! She was always told that Bun Bun just got away and so she always had this secret hope Bun Bun would come back. When she was a teenager she was randomly just told one day that Bun Bun had actually died! Anyway so she pulled in this morning and there was our little rabbit Blossom coming into our front yard! She shooed her around to the back but visions of Bun Bun were in her head, and when she yelled in the door we all took action. I ran downstairs to get my sister's laundry basket, my sister abandoned her breakfast at the table (which the baby immediately took charge of) and I grabbed a carrot to. The two girls headed out (carrot and laundry basket in hand) and started the rescue mission. I had lost my keys that morning so had no keys to get out of the back yard! I found some extra ones and hobbled outside as my foot is still messed up. We have massive dogs that live on the other side of our fence on the one side and we knew if she got in there or on the road that that it would be a quick end. It increased the panic! I was envisioning picking up my oldest from school and breaking the news of the bunny's doom.  I was trying to get sections of the yard bunny proofed so that she could not escape out those areas but she was fast. She did get out onto the road but the girls managed to herd her into the other neighbors yard that is well fenced and dogless. In the end we did manage to get the laundry basket on top of her and through a series of maneuvers we did get her back in her cage. It took some twist ties, a towel, carrying her cage all the way to the neighbors yard and back again but we did it! We are now recovering from the adrenaline rushes and the bunny is recovering from her near brush with death. She is also very firmly in her cage with no hope of escape! During our rescue mission the baby happily ate my sisters porridge and wrapped himself up in blankets and my five year old found the missing keys. It all ended well. Today is my sisters birthday and my parents anniversary. It is cloudy and cool outside and homeschooling is well under way. Happy Monday!