[Ag-eq] the BlanchRanch Bulletin for April 2014

[nfoster at extremezone.com]

Jewel, as always you are a great story teller.

NellaQuoting Jewel <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>:

> RABBITS 101;  part whatever.
> I haven't had much to say about the rabbits of late, but here is a timely
> update.
> I had been getting thoroughly p'd off with Bugzee's  "keep away" nonsense,
> and had threatened him on
> several occasions  that my patience was not inexhaustible and  exhaustion
> point was, rapidly
> approaching and I was dreaming, with some pleasure, I must confess, of having
> him in a pie, a
> casserole, a fricassee [whatever that is!] or just a plain old stew:  any of
> the foregoing would do!
> YUM--YUM--YUM!
> One morning, he was up to his usual tricks, so I left him to cogitate on the
> error of his ways while
> Peter went out for the day.
> I went back once to see if being kept in solitary confinement had had any
> effect, but NO!  it
> hadn't.
> However, the next morning, when I had put the ever-so-adorable big Pete in
> his "waiting station",
> Bugzee ran over and sat down beside him!
> WHOOPEE and a thousands HURRAHS I thought, rather prematurely I fear, because
> the next day it was
> "keep away" as usual.
> Now keep in mind my threats to his future long life, on Sunday morning, YES!
> Easter bunny morning,
> as I was getting his lead on Peter, Bugzee spotted a small hole in the bottom
> of the door and took
> the opportunity to beat a hasty retreat.
> Bugzee and Peter are very much of an age, and in breeding, Bugzee is a
> purebred Flemish Giant and
> Peter is a 3 quarter bred FG, but Peter is much the larger of the 2.
> To be, brutally, honest, I shed not a tear, NO!  not one over Bugzee's
> departure.  If he wanted to
> take the risks of being a wild rabbit, rather than lead the life of Riley
> that Peter:  and he:  had
> enjoyed, well, that was up to him!
> Jumping to today, Wednesday, I had a plumber call to unblock  a
> long-neglected drain from the barn,
> and he just happened to mentioned that there was a white rabbit up on the
> bank:  Of course, I
> scarcely need to tell you that it was the errant BUGZEE!
> Maybe, I still was having fond thoughts of rabbit pie and the other culinary
> delights mentioned
> above, because I asked Cameron, my tame plumber to catch him if he could, and
> he could and did!
>
> Don't be alarmed, "gentle reader"  as Miss Austen would and did, say, rabbit
> pie--casserole--fricassee--stew will, or I think that they will,  remain
> nothing more than fancies!!
>
>
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