Party animals

On a sunny morning a few weeks ago, while I was putting on my coat to go to the office, my wife happened to glance out the kitchen window. Then she called me over.

"I think we missed a big party," she said.

I looked outside. No question about it. We missed a big shindig at the bunny club ...
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Turning towards the left ...
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When I went home for lunch, I took more photos as evidence. This is looking towards my wife's little lilac bushes ...
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I walked next to the car and took a shot ...
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There were two areas with plenty of footprints. This one must be where they set up their disco and did the bunny hop ...
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The other one was around the base of the neighbor's big lilac bush. I can't really tell what went on here, but there plainly was a lot of traffic ...
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I think there's only one thing we can say for sure: There probably will be plenty of baby bunnies hopping around in the weeks to come.

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It's been rather quiet here. I haven't been driving that much due to the rising cost of gas and the near total quiet on the local sports scene. I got some photos of a local hockey tournament last weekend, and there's a youth wrestling tourney this Saturday.

Today, I drove up to Marquette for a sportswriters' meeting. They still have plenty of snow up there, but it was a sunny day, and the roads were dry. It was a lot warmer than the last time I went to an all-U.P. basketball meeting ...
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I talked recently about getting a new TV. It arrived during the day Monday, I set it up, hooked up all the cables and--after finally discovering a bad cable connection at a splitter, we have been enjoying it a lot. Monday night, we watched "2001: A Space Odyssey." Tuesday, it was the 1940s comedy "Harvey" with Jimmy Stewart.

Tonight, the feature was "Microcosmos," a French nature documentary about mostly bug life. That was a great show with the big screen and stereo sound. We also watched the end of tonight's Red Wings game, an episode of "Gunsmoke" and some Popeye cartoons.

Charlie (our new cat) has been sleeping most nights next to my legs. On recent nights, it's been playtime after the lights go out, as she pursues, stalks and pounces on hands moving mysteriously under the covers. After a while, she is ready to settle down and get to sleep.

She's just like a little kid at times. For a while, she is playing busily and energetically. Then you get busy with something else for a few minutes, and when you turn back she is fast asleep. Ah, for the life of a cat!