Lately it's been warming up here (finally!!!) and I started my garden preparation. Weeding like crazy, putting in compost (that we bought! Yes! We bought insanely expensive SOIL!!! like, DIRT!!! in bulk!!!!!!!!! BULK DIRT what am i even doing alkjdlakja) and working them in with a hand cultvator while cursing dandelions to the pits of hell, etc, etc. Had to mow the (rather large) lawn today because the dandelion flowers were very numerous and the yard was all yellow and the number of seeds that even ONE flower could spread gave me a headache. Dandelions in my vegetable bed?? I DON'T THINK SO. Well, at least for now. o_o I'll give them one week before they start trying to take over alkdfjalkja BUT ANYWAY. Sorry I'm rambling again.
What I really wanted to talk about were the bunnies. Mom's favourite plant is this purple bush thing that I forget the name of. We bought it last year and planted it, and it was well on its way to producing leaves and getting established and happiness! :D :D :D And then one day I got out to water AND THERE ARE NO LEAVES ON IT. OR STEMS. OR ANYTHING APART FROM ONE LONE PURPLE STEM POKING WOEFULLY OUT OF THE SOIL. LAKSJDLKSAJDA??????
FUCKING BUNNIES. AND SQUIRRELS. And then the bunnies ate MY favourite groundcover (it's tiny and awesome and changes colour from green to pink and IT'S SO CUTE but the bunnies ATE IT ALL except for like 2 tiny stems....lskdjflaksfjda!!!!! see a pattern here?? So I've built up some fairly indignant rage against the formerly-cute things. So where was I? Yes, today. TODAY after all the weeding and mowing (I worked for like 6 hours... yesterday I think I worked 7, sobs) I decide I'll break off some of the dead stems around the tall grasses we have at the back of the yard and traipse out there and start clearing out the dead stuff. AND THEN I SPY MOVEMENT!!! AND I LOOK DOWN!!! ..er, down-er. AND I SEE TWO PAIRS OF BEADY BLACK EYES STARING BACK AT ME.
*two seconds of absolute silence*
matchy mind: *goes blank*
matchy hand: *has long pieces of dead stems*
matchy: *YELLS LIKE TARZAN AND CHASES BUNNIES WAVING THE STICKS AND WHACKING THE GROUND AND SCREAMS AND SCARES THE EVIL BUNNIES AND CHASES THEM AND CHASES THEM UNTIL THEY FINALLY GET OUT THROUGH TWO GAPS IN THE FENCE*
we have some bricks randomly lying under a tree, so I barged over and brought in three bricks and viciously slammed them over the gaps.
"HA!" I thought. "TAKE THAT, BASTARD BUNNIES OF HELL."
Victorious, I went back to my whacking away of the dead stems. In under a minute, I spy movement out of the corner of my eye.
I look to the side, and see a pair of beady black eyes staring directly at me.
...
*tarzan scene plays again, with crazier yelling*
There was a moment of anxiety when the bunny couldn't escape through the usual gaps BECAUSE I HAD COVERED THEM and I was panicking by I'm fairly sure the bunny was panicking more, but finally the bunny managed to escaped through ANOTHER hole in the fence and then I put in more bricks. "LET'S SEE THEM GET IN THROUGH NOW!!!!!"
I moved back into breaking off stems, but more warily, looking up occasionally for any more hints of movement.
One minute passed by. And then there was another bunny. Do I really have to tell you how it went.
Fucking bunnies.