random thoughts – Day 1,845 – (Saturday) – bunny season

Real backyard bunny.

Signs of spring continue and today there were clouds and April showers. It seemed like a lighter, gentler version of the many months of fall and winter rain.

There was a brown cottontail bunny sighting in the yard today, the second time in a few days. Now I'll be looking for baby bunnies and better photo opportunities. 

Maybe brown bunny is scoping out where to hide my Easter treats. A year or two ago, there was a blue plastic egg in the yard with a dollar bill inside. I though it might have migrated from the yard of the neighbors with the small kid, but maybe it was brown bunny. 

Inside the house, my minimalist style of spring decorating took place today. The living room currently hosts Creepy Bunny. Creepy Bunny is a papier mâché piece that probably came from Christmas Tree Shoppe a million years ago. 

The family house had a front porch with an enclosed vestibule entryway with space to set bags down and unlock the door. It was large enough for a small table, and Mom would decorate for the seasons. During the Christmas season, a narrow, foil tree usually lived on the table. During the spring season, the table had a spring floral tablecloth and CB greeted/startled visitors.  

Indoor Creepy Bunny.

I was lucky enough to recently be awarded custodianship of Creepy Bunny. This is probably because for years I said I loved and wanted the scary little thing. Victory! And now CB sits on a plant stand and presides over the living room. 

Kiki has not noticed CB, and this isn't a surprise. There are two pom poms on the cat tree stand and I regularly plant a treat on the higher one, hoping she'll use the sisal wrapped pole for scratching. The treat stays on the pom pom, until I take it and feed it to her by hand. 

Kiki always eats the treat off the lower pom pom, but has never once even noticed it on the higher one to retrieve it herself. The only reason she even goes near the thing is to fetch the treats I plant on the base of it each night so she won't be afraid of the thing.