The Nature of Things

So as I sat down at my desk just now I was greeted by a quick and nasty little, actually rather big, black stink bug. The clever critter crawled down behind the back of my desk before I could get him. And Summer begins... bugs everywhere, the June bugs have been banging against my window the past few nights. At first I wasn't sure what the noise was, then after taking a peak I realized that June is fast approaching. However, that doesn't mean the weather is being friendly, we had to cover our tomatoes that we just planted in the garden. It is supposed to frost tonight. This lead to a rather unfortunate event in our evening.

Our kitty, Meiko, had his eye on something in our Raspberry Patch. My hubby was cheering him on thinking it was a small bug or something of that nature. Turns out, our domesticated cat transformed before all of our eyes into a wild feline. Much to the dismay of all of us, including the two small kiddos, we were met with terrible screams of death. Yes, Meiko had attacked a small baby rabbit, and in case you've never heard a rabbit scream, I will assure you , they do scream and it sounds horrible. He dropped it once while running from us and our screams to let it go ( I'm sure this was by mistake). Bunny darted back into the bushes, but Meiko prevailed and ended up with Rabbit Stew for his dinner. The chase however wasn't over until we chased our cat towards the house and the little bugger used his kitty door into the garrage as an escape. It was quite the horrible scene. our daughter was crying, our son didn't seem to care much; and the poor bunny was done. A few hours later I spied out and he was finished, belly full, and sharing the remains with Autumn, a sweet little country-drop-off, that we've adopted as our own. Here are some photos of what I believe might have been one of the bunnies. Poor things, we found them 2 weeks ago when I was mowing the lawn. I thought at that time that I had killed one or two, they all came bounding out of their burrow. The kids and I gathered them and after doing some internet research returned them to their den. They out grew it and moved out a week ago. This leads me to suspect that Meiko's dinner was once a snuggly bunny that they held. I guess this is just the nature of things; The circle of life, so they say.


So, on another note, I am working away on another Shutterfly book. I have created some paper packs that will include freebies, I just won't have time to get them loaded into the shop and on 4shared for a few more days. So, check back in a few. Take care , Amy