Rascally Rabbits

It all started a year ago when my husband (then just my friend) took me out to hunt rabbits. We cruised around in his Honda Civic on the back country roads with a spotlight, a shotgun and a rifle. I was determined to kill myself a "wascally wabbit", skin it, tan the hide and eat the meat.

Unfortunately I only got a rattlesnake and a kangaroo rat and ever since I have had RABBIT FEVER! I have wanted to kill a rabbit for ages, luckily for me they are ALL OVER the place where we live now, and rabbits are a bit of a nuisance here now. So one night we went on the warpath to get a rabbit! We were driving along this road and a rabbit was spotted, a first shot was fired, but it missed. Then it was my turn with the rabbit farther off then it had been. I placed the gun on the edge of the window, took careful aim and while zeroing in on my target I heard the comments of the people around me. "Don't feel bad if you don't get it, the sight is off we need to fix it." "Yeah good luck but you probably won't hit it." I ignored them as I saw the rabbit come into my sight and I quickly pulled the trigger before it could change it's mind and BAM! Hit that rabbit bottom!Haha!! I showed that wascally wabbit who was boss! This picture is Kevin holding my first rabbit. :)

Now for those of you who think I'm heartless in shooting rabbits, I'll have you know that I do have a soft spots for the little "vermin" (as my husband calls them). And though he calls them vermin he has a soft spot for them too, we found a little baby rabbit in the front yard today, it was the cutest thing ever and I wanted to keep it! Instead we held it and took pictures and put it back to survive in the wild.

Oh how I will miss my little baby rabbit! :) But I still have "RABBIT FEVER" so watch out all you wascally wabbits! I'm hungering for some rabbit flesh!

CAUTION: Firework emits shower of sparks

I love the 4th of July, it is by far one of my most favorite holidays (top 3 easy). This fourth of July was looking to be one of the best... started off with a pancake breakfast at 8am (the time was rather unfortunate) but happily I got to take a nice long nap afterwards :) Who doesn't love naps! My adventurous husband found a rope swing in the middle of this random small town about 15 minutes outside of Rochester, so he, our friend McKay and I all headed out to this rope swing (into a river) to spend our afternoon:

It was proving to be a great 4th of July as we had a lot of fun at the river. Later that night came the fireworks and Kevin and I had a firsthand experience of what to do when a firework unexpectedly explodes in your hand. Here are the steps:

1. Hold fountain firework in hand while it emits sparks.

2. When firework unexpectedly explodes with ground flowers into hand, drop firework and immediately run burnt hand under cold water.

3. Put ice on hand and head over to watch big fireworks in the sky. Wait 5 minutes until extreme pain sets in.

4. Hurry home and think of home remedies aka put in cold water (only thing that made it feel better- I also tried burn gel and a gauze wrap as directed online but he was in so much pain that he ripped it off less than 5 minutes later.)

5. Wait until injured party realizes that the pain is too extreme and agrees to be taken to the E.R. take picture of injured hand and relax in the E.R.

6. Doctor says the hand has 2nd and 1st degree burns, receive prescription for hefty pain-killer and allow hand to be lightly covered in neosporin and wrapped in gauze roll.

7. Go home, let pain-killer/narcotic set in and sleep. Wake up next day and take one more picture of hand.

8. Take E.R. doctors advice, "Next year you won't buy fireworks because they're all made in China and they are all crap. Just crap. Fireworks are worthless and terribly made." Haha.

9. Laugh about it. :) And try not to burn hand (or any body part) with fireworks next year because it hurts!

What a great 4th of July :) Happy Birthday America!!