I am a Honey Bee

All about my adventures with cooking, crafts, and travel

rabbits

5.17-20: Weekend Recap

{Frday Night} left work early | trip reacap from Elaine and Anne Marie | Price gets home | jetlagged travelers went to bed | went to dinner Alia in Winthrop | bed

{Saturday} up early | Katz’s bagels | Elaine and Anne Marie left | stitch fix try on | bagel sandwiches | blogging | scrapbooking | 3 hr nap | Price mowed the lawn | tofu stir fry | DVR’d Grimm | bed

{Sunday} up early | ham, egg and cheese on mini rolls | Sunday paper | watched Sunday morning | scrapbooking & rabbit time | hang out with Mark & Macari & the pups | Tasty Burger | went to work from 5- 8.30 | lounge around | bed early

{Monday} no work | Dr’s appointment in Brookline | Price went to work | other’s Dr office for blood work | home | talk to mom | nap | Price get’s home

date night

price's head hurts kemper smush face

bunniesstir fry

tasty burger

3.29-31: Weekend Recap

{Friday night} empanadas for dinner | watch Grimm | fire down the road | bed

{Saturday} make ham and eggs for breakfast | take Kemper to the vet | yard work and clean up | mac and cheese for lunch | I took a 2 1/2 hr nap while Price kick ass in the backyard | ‘Cuse game | get ready | fugakyu for dinner to celebrate Price’s new job | finish DVR’d ‘Cuse game and other games| bed

{Sunday} we went to Home depot (not yet opened) | Starbucks | Market Basket (closed for Easter) | back home | cinnamon rolls for breakfast | Home Depot | take Kemper to the beach | give Kemper a bath | watch You’ve Got Mail | make pasta for lunch | brush and trim rabbits nails while Price cleans their cage | fold laundry | watch Louisville vs Duke game| photo edits & punchlist write up| Price picks up Emily | Indian take out for dinner | watch Walking Dead season finale | Price drives Emily home | bed

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fuzzy bunnies ham and eggs kemper at the vet

sleeping kemper

date night at Fugakyu sushi at Fugakyu

Price at Fugakyu lounging around

fuzzy bunnies shedding Bunny

Price and Kemper at the Beach kemper at the beach

Kemps sitting

bun 2x – Layout

Something magical happened on Monday night!

I actually began the process of unearthing my desk and getting to work on some scrapbooking layouts and Project Life. Price wanted to watch the episode of The Walking Dead that he DVR’d and since that scares the bejesus out of me I went upstairs. I had to even put on some peppy FrankMusik so I could drown out the sounds of zombie screams. (Frankmusik’s debut album “Complete Me” always picks me up. It’s been in the car’s CD play since summer of 2009. no joke. Don’t touch it!) So in between instagramming photos of the rabbits, I went through goodies that were piling up on my desk to be used. It was overwhelming but really nice.

Can’t wait to really dive back in and get crafty. Stay tuned!!

10.25-29: HurricaneSandy Weekend Recap

{Thursday night} FASHION SHOW!!! | dance dance dance | cab home

{Friday} heart attack waking up at 1.50pm & messing up the day | go through photos from fashion show | tortellini | Price home | shower | go to Mark and Allie’s to hang out with everyone |

{Saturday} sleep in| haymarket for oranges | Mark & Allie’s house | fresh squeeze oj | breakfast: mimoas, muffins, eggs, baocon, sausage | T ride | guys went to BC game |kids play at the park | T ride back  | lunch for the kids| nap with Kenzi | guys come home | sushi dinner from Fugakyu | kids paint pumpkins  then go to bed | go home & go to bed

{Sunday} sleep in | grocery shopping | breakfast | Grimm | fight | baking and cleaning while Price works on portfolio | dvr’d NASCAR race | got ‘no work’ email | make drinks & watch Hurriance Sandy coverage | bed

{Monday} no work | breakfast | Hurriance Sandy coverage | bake cookies | shower | power out at 3.20 | 2 hour nap | walk around | go for a drive to see any damage (not much!) | KFC | lounge around with drinks | bed

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chillax

our cow is having a relaxing weekend.

hope you are having a relaxing weekend too!

Mr Mellow Yellow

Our rabbit Jack has been ‘off’ lately. Not sure what is going on but he has been pretty blah. We have checked him over and don’t see anything physically wrong with him but it still has us worried at times when he just lays out and is mopey.

So we gave him extra attention tonight and I snapped a few photos in the process.

Maybe he has seasonal affective disorder.

*Mellow Yellow= sad, depressed. No reference to the song. Price and I basically have our own language. Pay no attention.

Happy Easter!

So I had a whole blog post written up about Easter, what it means to me, it’s origins, how I was happy I was not bribed to go to church, how I spent the day, rabbits, how i think someone is a jerk for posting about ‘celebrating’ Easter by eating rabbit, and much more. I got to the end, proof read it, and then deleted the whole damn thing. I was just not in the mood to get preachy about religion, why giving rabbits as gifts is a bad idea, and eating rabbit. I’m too tired to go there.

Instead I will leave you with this:

Hope you had a great Easter!

Thanks for visiting. Please leave me a comment to provide some feedback. I appreciate all the comments I receive.

Breaks my heart



As I have started before, I have 2 rabbits and I am a volunteer with House Rabbit Network. I adopted our first rabbit, Bunny,  through a shelter and then when I felt it was right to get another I adopted Jack through HRN. I love them to peices, although they eat my books and Jack ate the buttons off the TV remote. Techniqually, all of tht stuff is boiled odwn to being my fault for leaving it without nibbling range for them. No matter what they do we love them to pieces.

In addition to the emails I get as a volunteer, I follow HRN on their facebook page for updates. Most of the status updates are fun with links to the blog and announcements about rabbits that have been with the org for a while are finally adopted. Sadly today’s update had to do with a case of 64 rabbits being seized from a trailer in Marboro NY. {video in the link} A woman had all of these rabbits in a trailer in unsanitary conditions and without food or water. At this point she is being charged with 64 counts of failure to provide proper sustenance under state agriculture and markets law.

I’m sad that anyone would let things get so out of control.
I’m sad that she did not take care of her rabbits.
I’m sad that so many have sores on them and many have lost patches of hair.
I’m so sad that they have been malnourished.
I’m sad that so many rabbits are in need of a good home now.

I’m really hoping that I can help out in some way since some rabbits will be heading to HRN. At this point, nothing is too small… driving to pick up the rabbits in NY, donating some hay, pellets, cleaning cages, etc. As much as this horrible thing has happened I know that I can do something to right this wrong.

House Rabbit Network
781-431-1211
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Ulster County SPCA
845-331-5377

Garden Girl LO- Studio Calico 12/5 Sunday Sketch

I’m playing catch up with the Studio Calico Sunday Sketches. At this point I just want to do them because they are so cute and inspiring. So I don’t want to brush them aside and move on, which is why I am posting from a layout from a few weeks back.

This layout is of a picture I took of Bunny when I had her outside this past spring. I knew this would be a good layout for this picture because I wanted the picture to stand on its own without a lot of journaling. And in the end it didn’t have any!

The embellishments I used are Entwined Blooms from Sassafras. They, along with the patterned paper, and letter stickers, arrived in my monthly Studio Calico kit. The piece where I put the title is a piece of packaging from Sassafras. I just love their packaging because they actually design it instead of leaving it blank.

Snow Bunnies- Layout

I had these photos laying around for a while. I took them back in January when I had the rabbits outside in the snow. Part of me wanted to make a 2 page spread with a lot of embelishments but I decided to keep it rather simple. I fought myself about this page quite a bit. I played around with color selection, embelisments, and arrangement. Overall a simple grid would work best. I wanted to feature the rabbits so the close up’s on them to stand out. Additionally, I did not want to have multiple photo sizes- I don’t want to play favorites with them. ha.

I kept things simple since I wanted to emphasize them in the snow. The brightest thing in the photos was the harness so I started to pick colors that were similar to that and then kept going from where, while keeping in the came tonal family. I wanted to have some snowflakes on the page but did not want die cuts or stamps so I used a Hambly transperancy. I added a few colored gromets in a large (visual) triangle.

Stampin’ Up, Hambly, Cricut

Mr. July

I volunteer for the local rabbit rescue group, House Rabbit Network. Every Monday I do the calls that come in from the hotline. I love how they are generally adoptions. I do hate having to pass along the surrenders to the fantastic woman who has the patience to deal with them, because I would not at all. That being said I did my calls for tonight and felt this was a perfect time to share Mr. July with you. He is a very adorable rabbit who loves food, laying around, trying to dig to china on the hardwood floors, flopping over, eating more food, doing binkies, laying down, being groomed, destroying books, and eating more. What he loves most are raisins. Really funny to see him freak once the box of raisins makes its appearance.

Mr. July is our JACK!!

This is one of my favorite photos of Jack. This is Jack in his element. He loves to lounge around, but it is quite rare for it to be on the sofa. So that of course makes it more special.

So why exactly am I calling him Mr. July?

It’s because he is in the 2011 House Rabbit Network Calendar!!!!!!!! I hate to push things on people but I can’t resist this. So I encourage any pet/rabbit lover to get a calendar or to even gift one to someone. This will truly help a great cause. HRN is a great organization that I love to help out. There are so many rabbits in the foster home system now, and all of these rabbits could use your help for health care, supplies, and food.

If you don’t want a calendar, you can still help out with donations. Or even donate to your local rescue, since they all really need the help.

(Thanks, I’m done now being all beggy and preachy)