The great blizzard clean-up.

This was the extent of the bunnies helping us dig out from under 30 inches (76.2 cm) of snow.  They claimed lack of thumbs and the fact that shoveling sounded too much like work.  River helpfully points out what we need to use to make the snow go away while Simon shows us where we need to go.

Bunny blizzard 2016!

River realizes just how awesome domestication is and Simon agrees!  (Head's up--this video has sound!)  We ended up with about 30 inches of snow--big human had already shoveled about half the snow to uncover our heat pump to keep the house warm at this point.

Oh, sorry...

There's no room for you up here, but feel free to sit on the floor!
Wow, it's like middle school all over again only this time the couch is the cool kids' table.

A little spooky.

River looks like she's carrying her head in her paws like it's a prop for a Halloween costume.

Hoppy Father's Day!

Wishing all the dads out there a very Happy Father's Day!  Wishing a very Happy Sunday to everyone else!

Happy 4th of July!

Things could have gone a very different way for our country.

I hope you all have a happy and safe 4th of July!

Simon and River's recovery and sibling rivalry.

Here's a pic of River that I took on her first outing after her spay.  She scared my husband and me because she acted as if she didn't just have surgery two days prior.  She was running, bouncing around, and standing up like she is here.  We only let her run around for 5 minutes before herding her back into her cage for fear of her overdoing it.  You can see where they shaved her tummy and the spot where they put the surgical glue-poor little girl has two red bruise stripes on either side of the incision from where they clamped her open to do the surgery.  She's doing great and should be able to share a cage with Simon in another 3 weeks after they both fully recover and their hormones stabilize.

Here's a pic of Simon that I took a few days after his neuter.  He seems to have become quite the cuddle-bug since the surgery.  He'll move his litter box around to get me to come over and pretty much does anything he can to get me to scoop up his front paws so he can lick my hand.  He'll even start to lean out of the cage to lick my nose and forehead letting his whiskers tickle my face.  I've lost count of the times he's gotten bunny hork on my glasses!  He's developing a fascination with my glasses that I hope doesn't progress into him attempting to steal them off of my face.  Given how bad my eyesight is, a bystander would probably laugh their butt off watching me play blind-man's-bluff around the living room chasing after the fuzzy black and orange blur that Simon would appear to be.  He's recovering quickly from the surgery and acts even more loving than his old self. 

What I find funny is that River seems to be a bit jealous of the lack of constant Simon attention that she had prior to the neuter (considering that she'd ignore him about 70% of the time, who would've guessed that she actually craved the constant adoration he heaped upon her).  Whenever she sees Simon licking my hand, she takes the initiative to try to gain my attention by mimicking Simon so I end up being tag-teamed by bunnies--one hand holding one of them up and the other through the bars of the other's cage to prevent them from flipping their litter box.  She's even starting to lick at my hand after I scoop her front paws up and give her the hand signal for "no" for trying to flip the litter box.  They're turning it into a game of sibling rivalry for who can get more of the female human's attention (as though I don't always immediately go over to their sibling's cage to give them a noogie after petting the other one).  Never a dull moment with these two!

A morning with Chaos and Mayhem.

This is what greeted me this morning.  Simon's cuteness quotient approaches zero for this little stunt.  I shall dub him Chaos for today.  He seems genuinely shocked that I don't want to pet him after this.

River saw what Chaos (aka Simon) was doing and saw how much attention he was getting and decided to get in on the action.  It looks as if she's asking him, "Am I doing this right?"  She earns the moniker of Mayhem this morning.  A classic case of bunny see, bunny do.

The little troopers are home from their surgeries!

River is still a bit high from the surgery meds and is a bit wobbly on her feet...she did nibble on some oats, so that's a good sign.

Simon has been more active because they did his surgery first.  You can see that he's already playing with the steri-pad they put in the bottom of the carrier.  No cone-of-shame for either of them, which is probably a good thing because I think they'd smother me in my sleep once they completely regained their faculties.

Hi-ho, hi-ho it's off to the Vet we go...

Today is the day of the spay and neuter for these not so little ones!  They know something is up and by the sounds of the digging and thumping, they aren't happy about it in the slightest.  They were lured into the travel cages with breakfast and they just now realized they've been duped.  Tough love--it's for their own good.  At least afterwards Simon will no longer be in bunny jail (for the crime of doing some not so brotherly things to River's head) and River won't have to be in protective custody!  They can happily share the same living quarters once they're healed.

My husband asked if they'd come home with those cone-of-shame things around their heads and if so, told me that I'd need to take a picture of it because it would be hilarious.  I'll keep you posted on their progress and cone-bearing status.

Some fatherly advice...

Okay, so I don't usually post on the weekend but considering the holiday, I couldn't let the day go by without wishing all the Dads out there a very Happy Father's Day.

Just another day at the office...

Sorry for the late post, but hopefully this makes up for it!  Meg--Thank you for letting me "borrow" Dexter!  I hope everyone has a great weekend and I'll be back on Monday.

River is working on her Smooth Criminal lean.

Simon, are you OK?
You OK?
Are you OK, Simon?
You've been hit by
You've been struck by
A smooth criminal.

I'm sure at this point, Simon is pleading with River to please stop singing.  She can have his helping of oats if she just stops!

They're hopping mad about Easter.

For those of you who are unfamiliar, "Guy Hops" is a parody of Guy Fawkes, well known in England for his role in The Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament in 1605.  Things clearly didn't work out so well for him and to this day, he is burned in effigy on Bonfire Night.  The poem is a rabbit-themed version of a rather brutal little ditty they made up for the Bonfire Night festivities.

As for the signage, what became associated with the Easter celebration existed long before Christianity.  If you find yourself getting offended, you're taking this post entirely too seriously.